Mark Zuckerberg thinks he's Tony Stark! Facebook founder plans to build AI butler like Iron Man's 'Jarvis' to control his home and look after his daughter Max
- Zuckerberg made the announcement in a Facebook post on his profile
- He said building the AI 'butler' would be his personal challenge for 2016
- The 31-year-old said: 'You can think of it kind of like J.A.R.V.I.S in Iron Man'
- His plans include teaching the assistant to let friends into his home by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell, for example
Mark Zuckerberg wants to build an artificially intelligent assistant in 2016 to help run his home and help him at work.
Zuckerberg, who commits to a new personal challenge every year, revealed his plan in a Facebook post.
'You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man,' Zuckerberg wrote, referring to an artificially intelligent butler who appears in the Marvel comic books and movies.
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Zuckerberg, who commits to a new personal challenge every year, revealed his plan in a Facebook post. 'You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man,' Zuckerberg wrote, referring to an artificially intelligent butler who appears in the Marvel comic books and movies (pictured)
Zuckerberg will start the project by exploring existing technology, he wrote.
He will then begin teaching the technology to understand his voice so that it will learn to control everything in his home, such as music, lights and temperature.
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His plans also include teaching the assistant to let friends into his home by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell, Zuckerberg wrote.
The assistant will visualise data to support Zuckerberg at work, he continued.
'This should be a fun intellectual challenge to code this for myself,' Zuckerberg wrote. 'I'm looking forward to sharing what I learn over the course of the year.'
Zuckerberg said he will teach the technology to understand his voice so that it will learn to control everything in his home, such as music, lights and temperature. The robo-butler could even be used to check on his daughter Max (pictured with the Facebook founder and his wife Priscilla)
J.A.R.V.I.S. stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System. It is an advanced AI system developed by Tony Stark, and in the films it was voiced by actor Paul Bettany. Jarvis has a blue interface and projects holograms based on what Stark, played by Robert Downey Jnr, is working on (pictured)
J.A.R.V.I.S. stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.
It is named after the Stark's family butler Jarvis, and its name is often written as JARVIS, or Jarvis.
It is an advanced AI system developed by Tony Stark, and in the films it was voiced by actor Paul Bettany.
Jarvis has a blue interface and projects holograms based on what Stark, played by Robert Downey Jnr, is working on.
Other challenges Zuckerberg has taken on in recent years have included reading two books every month, and learning Mandarin.
It was recently revealed Facebook is working on building an 'artificial brain' - one that it hopes to turn into a virtual personal assistant that can also sort through a mountain of photos, videos and comments posted by its next billion or so users.
Called M, it is believed to have been named after James Bond's secretary, Moneypenny.
Facebook's artificial intelligence team revealed its work at an industry conference this week.
Among its accomplishments are the development of software that can analyse a photo and answer questions about what it shows, or study a picture of toy blocks and predict whether they will fall over.
It was recently revealed Facebook is working on building an 'artificial brain' that it hopes to turn into a virtual personal assistant. Called M (left), the assistant is believed to have been named after James Bond's secretary, Moneypenny. It has been designed to rival Apple's Siri (right) and Microsoft's Cortana
In August, a select group of Facebook users were given M to trial.
Facebook is prompting them them to test it by asking it to make restaurant reservations, book holidays or shop online.
It has been designed to rival Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana.
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