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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:55PM (#444471)

    Human society is still evolving, once we solve the energy/resources problems we may have a chance at finally rooting out the warlord tendencies. Systems beget similar systems, so children stuck in abusive homes tend to have serious problems of their own, children conscripted as child soldiers definitely develop serious issues, and the whole ball keeps rolling. Maybe I'm too optimistic, maybe it will be a while before our more primal urges are easily mastered by the average human, but I do like to imagine that we could create a pretty damn good society with high quality ethics taught to everyone. Right now we have a haphazard mashup everywhere.