Zuckerberg plans to bring Iron man’s digital assistant to life

This year, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg looks to take things to another level as his personal project for 2016 is to bring Jarvis, Iron Man’s trusty digital assistant, to life.
That isn’t exactly true. Zuck wants to build his own AI (artificial intelligence) robot to help him run his life more efficiently — but he references Jarvis, probably the best example, to explain his lofty ambition.

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Here’s what Zuckerberg said: “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.” He noted.

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