We've read Mark Zuckerberg's status last January that he wants to have his own personal AI to run his home and work. Just like Jarvis is to Tony Stark. But after a year of coding, Zuckerberg shared to the world a video of his Jarvis-like AI with Morgan Freeman to Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice, to the annoyance of his wife.
"Earlier this year, I started building a simple AI to help run our home," Zuckerberg said. He shared that he talks to Jarvis with an app he developed, and with artificial intelligence, Jarvis can understand him and act on what to do.
A funny run-through video of Jarvis shows us that the AI is informing Zuckerberg of his daily activities, including when his daughter, Max, woke up and the AI entertaining her in Chinese. We also get to see the Jarvis shooting to Zuckerberg one of his gray shirts, changing room temperatures and making him toast.
"One of the best things about Jarvis is that it can recognize people at the gate, let them in automatically, and just tell me about it," Zuckerberg said. The Facebook founder also beamed when he told the audience that Jarvis could play their favorite songs, but with the AI, saying "I'm sorry, Mark. I'm afraid I can't do that."
"There are no good Nickleback songs."
"Good. That was actually just a test," replied Zuckerberg and asked Jarvis to play something for the whole family. The "Itsy-Bitsy" Spider Song came out. "What? I'm a dad now. This is what I listen to."
Jarvis is seen to be playing with the whole family, ringing in suggestions to tickle Max.
One feature of Jarvis is that Zuckerberg can just text on his app for the AI to respond. "Lights off," he typed, but with clamor from his wife.
Zuckerberg invites the audience to comment on his status if there are any suggestions or room for improvements. He also posted a note on Facebook that, "I've previously predicted that within 5-10 years we'll have AI systems that are more accurate than people for each of our senses -- vision, hearing, touch, etc, as well as things like language."
"It's impressive how powerful the state of the art for these tools is becoming, and this year makes me more confident in my prediction."
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