Mark Zuckerberg introduces new innovation

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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook has come up with another new innovation set to blow the mind of techies all around the globe. The 32 year old prodigy as shown as per speculation that he is still capable of coding and developing high-tech innovation.

This new innovation is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) which he called JARVIS was part of his new year resolution in the year 2016 (also with running 365 miles). He named the AI JARVIS after the legendary AI in the Iron Man suit which supports Tony Stark in his day to day activities both as the CEO of Stark Enterprise and as the Super-hero Iron Man. In the last version of the Avengers, JARVIS
was incorporated into the latest addition of the Avengers, a bio-human known as Vision.

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.

Mark Zuckerberg's version of JARVIS is not as advanced as that of Tony Stark but for a work done in a year (2016), it is alright to assume that JARVIS 2.0 would be the bomb. The Facebook Millionaire posted on his facebook that "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.

Every challenge has a theme, and this year's theme is invention.
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."


The AI can perform the following functions:
1.Regulate room temperatures
2. Play Music and Videos
3. Open Doors
4. Perform Basic Tasks like turning the lights of a particular room on or off
5. Tell you schedule of the day
6. Teach languages
7. Inform you of what others are doing in the house
8. Prepare Toast
9. Teach other languages
10. Set up video conferences

Popular Actor MORGAN FREEMAN is the voice behind JARVIS. However, only a limited set of commands where recorded by Freeman

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.

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