Without a doubt to Mark Zuckerberg You must really like science fiction movies or at least the Iron Man saga. To the delight of all of us, people with the intellectual and economic capacity of the CEO of Facebook can make this type of project come true and, although He has been working on it for many months, baptized by the way as Jarvis, today reveals part of its ins and outs.
As he details in a page Created for this purpose on Facebook, Jarvis is a personal project carried out by Mark Zuckerberg himself. At first, the basic idea was to build a kind of artificial intelligence system capable of controlling applications present in your home such as light control, temperature control, security or music playback.
Despite being born as an entertainment, Jarvis has grown into an impressive project.
Creating an artificial intelligence system was necessary to get Jarvis to learn his tastes, activity patterns and even ways of speaking and vocabulary to offer a better interaction both with Mark Zuckerberg himself and with the rest of his family. Another idea, secondary at first, was to get his assistant to also serve as entertainment.
Little by little, the first ideas began to emerge and thus Jarvis was born, an assistant capable of recognizing simple words such as «lights","room","music«... before these words, artificial intelligence responded with text. Shortly after this system evolved into a much more complex mechanism where the room could be specified, there was already some iteration by voice and the features were extended to be mobile and not similar, for example, to an Amazon Echo.
As the own comments Mark Zuckerberg:
I programmed Jarvis on my computer, but to make it useful I wanted to be able to communicate with him wherever he was. That meant that communication had to take place through my phone, not a device located at home.
A very interesting point of the Jarvis project is not only found in that it can turn on or off the lights, regulate the temperature, play music according to the tastes of each member of the family, have games, manage the entrance to the house attending to possible visitors ... but Mark Zuckerberg's use of a voice and facial recognition system, natural language processing y reinforcement learning.
As expected and this has been confirmed by the CEO of Facebook, there are many development points that he still wants to do to continue completing Jarvis. One of them is that your virtual butler is able to learn by himself without having to teach him how to do a certain task. On the other hand, it is not ruled out that a similar system can become commercialized, in his own words:
It could be the foundation for a new product.
Further information: Facebook