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posted by on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-is-why-Mark-Zuckerberg-is-a-visionary-and-we're-not dept.

Guess what task the goal-driven nerd billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, the world's fifth richest man, set himself this year. Solving the Kashmir crisis? Eradicating polio? Choosing and solving one of the problems in the Millennium Prize?

Don't be daft. He's turned his house into a robot buddy.

"My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home - like Jarvis in Iron Man," Zuck explains on his Facebook page in a post unexpectedly titled "Building Jarvis".

Facebook's corporate communications chiefs must have had high hopes for their CEO's Christmas Story. Jarvis would be like the Baby Jesus. Zuckerberg would learn from it ("These challenges always lead me to learn more than I expected") while he taught it. The Jarvis Story promised to do two things. It would position the founder as a fearless DIY pioneer, while allowing us to marvel at the wonder that is Facebook AI. For as you'd expect, Facebook's chatbots and other services are heavily promoted.

But, if anything, the Miracle of Jarvis achieves the exact opposite.

Mark Zuckerberg is a visionary.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:29AM (#444245)

    Jew hires Black butler

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:45AM (#444255)

    You can bet JIDF agents are reading this and adding messages, voting as real users.

    There are many entrenched zionists on this forum and they often make me feel ill.