Happy New Year to you! What’s your New Year resolution? Care to share? Well, while some of us only have plans to lose weight, get married, make more money and probably take over the world while we’re at it, Mark Zuckerberg seems to have other plans.
For 2016, Zuckerberg has decided to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to run his house. In his own words “My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work. You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man.”
He intends to begin by taking a look at available technology and plans to teach his AI not only to control everything in his home- temperature, lights, music etc. through voice recognition but also to let friends into the house by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell.
In addition, Zuckerberg will also be teaching his home’s AI to inform him if anything unusual is going on in his baby daughter’s room whenever he’s not with her, so he can check up on her. Finally, with regard to work, he intends to make the AI help him visualize data in Virtual Reality (VR) to help him “build better services and lead my organizations more effectively” he said.
Here’s a clip from the movie: Iron man, as a reminder of what Jarvis is capable of.
It’ll definitely be fun to see how close Zuckerberg’s 2016 personal project comes to this.