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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:43AM (#444251)

    Funny Cats Compilation, 10 HOURS Epic Funny Cats ! BIGGEST Cats Fails Compilation in the World 2017

    Fuck YouTube

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:52AM (#444258)

    No, you meant to say "Fuck JewTube".

    I agree with the sentiment. Jewtube removes content, and actively stops search results from showing things they don't want you to see. Facefuck goes further by actively providing no value whatsoever. Completely content-free. They are all part of the same network, where your data is saved in one central location to be cross-referenced. These people love "centralized" everything. Centralized government, centralized databases, centralized control.