Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 17 submissions in the queue.

Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy

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.

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.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 37 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by etherscythe on Wednesday December 21 2016, @04:47PM

    by etherscythe (937) on Wednesday December 21 2016, @04:47PM (#444341) Journal

    Millennium problem link is invalid. Proper url: http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems [claymath.org]

    Please crusade responsibly.

    --
    "Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2