Zukerberg's Jarvis is the First Step to Understanding Real Intelligence

Zukerberg’s Jarvis is the First Step to Understanding Real Intelligence

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, as part of his 2016 resolution, has built an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system, Jarvis, named after the virtual assistant in the Iron Man movies. It is voiced over by Morgan Freeman to distinguish Jarvis from existing AI assistants and to add the novelty effect of a celebrity. This anthropomorphizing effect is more likely to attach people to their AI devices and help them interact more with the product and provide training data to the devices, thus, enhancing the capabilities of the product. Built in 100 hours, Zuckerberg started the process of building Jarvis, a personal assistant, by writing code to connect the existing systems in his home such as lights, thermostat, doors, music, TV, and nest cam. Zuckerberg engineered a few products such as a toaster…


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