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Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy

posted by on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:14AM   Printer-friendly
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Phoenix666 writes:

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: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:39AM

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:39AM (#444248)

    and his visions are dystopian.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 21 2016, @12:58PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday December 21 2016, @12:58PM (#444297) Journal

    Sorry, tongue-in-cheek doesn't always come through well on the Internet. I actually think he's the opposite. Everything he does is weak and derivative. The one who built Facebook, whose name escapes me at the moment, did the heavy lifting and gifted it to Zuckerberg. It's like he was intentionally trolling the world.

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    • (Score: 2) by fleg on Thursday December 22 2016, @03:40AM

      by fleg (128) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 22 2016, @03:40AM (#444612)

      hi Phoenix666, thanks for all the stories you post, they are much appreciated.

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:13PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:13PM (#444690) Journal

        Thanks, fleg. It's become my morning ritual over coffee--scan the headlines, sip, submit story to Soylent.

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