Facebook founder and new father, Mark Zukerberg who is currently
enjoying his paternity leave has revealed his new year resolution to
build an Artificial Intelligence, a robot, that will assist with home
duties, liking it to what was in Iron Man movie, Jarvis.
Though Mark is a nerd, but he’s a interesting and intriguing person.
It’s also amazing how he finds time replying to people’s comments. From
his response, it is obvious that he’s the one making those replies. More
so, Mark’s new adventure will surely add value to many homes when
actualized.
Read below what he wrote on his page:
“Every year, I take on a personal challenge to learn new things and
grow outside my work at Facebook. My challenges in recent years have
been to read two books every month, learn Mandarin and meet a new person
every day.
“My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my
home and help me with my work. You can think of it kind of like Jarvis
in Iron Man.
“I’m going to start by exploring what technology is already out there. Then I’ll start teaching it to understand
my voice to control everything in our home — music, lights, temperature
and so on. I’ll teach it to let friends in by looking at their faces
when they ring the doorbell. I’ll teach it to let me know if anything is
going on in Max’s room that I need to check on when I’m not with her.
On the work side, it’ll help me visualize data in VR to help me build
better services and lead my organizations more effectively.
“At Facebook I spend a lot of time working with engineers to build new things. Some of the most rewarding work involves getting deep into the details of technical projects. I do this with Internet.org when we discuss the physics of building solar-powered planes and satellites to beam down internet access. I do this with Oculus when we get into the details of the controllers or the software we’re designing. I do this with Messenger when we discuss our AI to answer any question you have. But it’s a different kind of rewarding to build things yourself, so this year my personal challenge is to do that.
“This should be a fun intellectual challenge to code this for myself. I’m looking forward to sharing what I learn over the course of the year.”