Which essentially lets him give commands to his phone. To interact with AI, Zuckerberg coded Jarvis to Facebook Messenger so he could write out text commands to a bot as well as creating a dedicated Jarvis iOS app. Similarly, I found that connecting a food dispenser for Beast or a gray t-shirt cannon would require hardware modifications to work,” writes Zuckerberg. I ended up finding an old toaster from the 1950s and rigging it up with a connected switch. “One thing I learned is it’s hard to find a toaster that will let you push the bread down while it’s powered off so you can automatically start toasting when the power goes on. Particularly, he found that a lot of appliances aren’t connected to the internet yet and ran into some hiccups. The facebook CEO also tried to control appliances using his AI but ran into problems. Zuckerberg also says he’s not aware of any commercial products doing that yet. If it gets the mood wrong, I can just tell it, for example, “that’s not light, play something light,” and it can both learn the classification for that song and adjust immediately,” explained Zuckerburg in his blog post. At this point, I mostly just ask Jarvis to “play me some music, ” and by looking at my past listening patterns, it mostly nails something I’d want to hear. “The more context an AI has, the better it can handle open-ended requests. His version of Jarvis can also handle open-ended request. It can control lights, adjust temperatures and play songs. Zuckerberg’s AI is similar to Amazon’s Alexa or Google assistant. Zuckerberg wrote a blog post saying he’s completed building a simple AI to run his home like Jarvis does in the Ironman comics and movies. In the past, he challenged himself to only eating animals that he’s killed personally.įor 2016 he had a new challenge, create a simple AI. Zuckerburg issues a challenge for himself every year. Mark Zuckerberg is not just the CEO of Facebook and Tech billionaire, he’s an innovator constantly trying new things. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.