Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that
he has completed his personal challenge
for 2016 – building a home Artificial Intelligence
(AI) assistant called Jarvis. In a series of
videos and Facebook posts, Zuckerberg has
explained what Jarvis is, and what are the
tasks it can be programmed to do at home.
The videos posted by the sixth-richest person
in the world show the Jarvis home AI doing
daily household tasks for the Zuckerberg
family, such as cooking some toast, and
taking care of Max, the Facebook CEO’s infant
What is Jarvis?
Jarvis is an AI system Zuckerberg has built to
control his home and perform basic tasks,
such as turning the lights off or on, control a
particular room’s temperature, playing music,
opening doors, and so on. The home AI uses
natural language processing and speech
recognition to understand the user’s voice,
and the context of the command, in order
to perform the tasks it is asked to do. It also
has facial recognition capabilities and,
therefore, can open doors of the home for
known guests, or tell Zuckerberg where
each member of the family is, whether
Max is asleep or playing around, and so on.
Why did Mark Zuckerberg build Jarvis?
Building Jarvis, and running 365 miles, were
Zuckerberg’s personal challenge for 2016; his
annual challenges in the past have been to learn
Mandarin, read two books a month, and to
meet a new person every day. The name is inspired
by the Jarvis AI assistant used by
Tony Stark/ Iron Man in the Marvel comic books
and movies.
What can Jarvis do?
Apart from what we mentioned above, Jarvis can
tell you the schedule for the day, teach
languages, inform you what others in the home
are doing, prepare toasts, set up video
conferences, and play movies. Jarvis can also
make remind you to, for example, go to
the gym. It can even make suggestions, such as
offering to make a toast when you are
looking to whip up some breakfast, and crack
a few jokes.
In the latest video Zuckerberg posted on his profile,
Jarvis show's a personality of his
own, joking that his talents are being wasted in
mundane household tasks and ending
the video with “that’s it, I’m joining The Avengers."
Who is the voice of Jarvis?
Jarvis is voice by Hollywood veteran and
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman.
In an interview with Fast Company, Zuckerberg
said that more than 50,000 people
suggested using Freeman’s voice when the
Facebook asked the public who should voice
the home AI. After meeting the Hollywood
star at an event, Zuckerberg sent him a
request to voice the AI system, and Freeman
agreed. Robert Downey Jr. – who plays
Iron Man in the movies – had offered to do the
voice too.
However, Freeman has recorded only a “limited
set of commands” that Jarvis will say, according
to a Fast Company report.
How do Zuckerberg and family operate Jarvis?
The Zuckerberg family can either speak directly to
the Jarvis AI, or use a Facebook
Messenger bot, or a dedicated app. In the post
announcing Jarvis, Mark Zuckerberg
said that the dedicated Jarvis app (only the iPhone
is ready at present, while he is building
the Android app) is always listening for
instructions, similar to what Google Now and
the Google Assistant do.
How does Jarvis work?
Jarvis, like other AI, learns the user’s behaviour
and habits to perform the tasks.
For example, Jarvis can understand synonyms
(family room and living room, for example),
and context (tracking key phrases said by the user
to perform the necessary action).
Open-ended requests, such as “play me some
music,” need context and user’s
past behaviour to execute, which Jarvis learns over
time as it is used. If it gets
something wrong, Zuckerberg corrects it and tells
it how it needs to be done, so that the
home AI learns and does better next time.
What is next for Jarvis?
Zuckerberg plans to build more capabilities into
Jarvis, and has asked the public for
more ideas. He also said that he would like to
explore teaching Jarvis how to learn
skills itself rather than having someone teach it.
An Android app to control Jarvis is
in the works, as is making the AI available publicly.
Zuckerberg also said in a post, “For assistants like
Jarvis to be able to control
everything in homes for more people, we need
more devices to be connected
and the industry needs to develop common APIs
and standards for the devices
to talk to each other.”
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