We Could Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis-Like AI Next Month

By Mara Anton

Posted on August 30, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg is nothing if not a man of his word. At the beginning of the year, he voiced his most challenging annual resolution so far – to create his own personal assistant as a Jarvis of sorts. Now, he’s hopeful that it can demonstrate the work done these months in September #machinemagic

Zuckerberg hosted a live Q&A session in Rome and, according to the Verge, his home’s artificial intelligence system is making progress. “I got it to this point where now I can control the lights, I can control the gates, I can control the temperature — much to the chagrin of my wife, who now cannot control the temperature because it is programmed to only listen to my voice,” Zuckerberg said. That’s not something unheard of, although the customization it will sustain in the end will make it pretty one-of-a-kind.

Although it is a personal project, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t work at it alone. He had the help of Facebook engineers: “There’s some state of the art AI in there. It’s been awesome to get a chance to work with our engineers at Facebook and really see on a day to day experience what they’re doing”.

Together, they made the AI take advantage of face recognition algorithms so Zuck can enter his house thanks to biometrics, not codes or keys: “I programmed it so now, when I walk up to my gate, I don’t have to put in a code or something like that to get in, or put in a key. It just sees my face and it lets me in. So that is pretty fun […]”.

We Could Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis-Like AI Next Month