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Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by kyrias »

dmcginty wrote: post #116
twothamendment wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You added one thing in the list that makes me agree - "it can learn and adapt". Jarvis in my house uses sensors, actuators, lights, switches, etc - but mine is not AI. It only does what I tell it how to do. I'm pretty happy with the results, but it can't learn a thing. The latest thing I "taught" my Jarvis to do is stream the security camera to the TV with a voice command. Now if I only had time to look into how to t…

That being said, I don't think the ability to learn and adapt. This is entirely a statement on semantics, but if I made a tic-tac-toe playing program that had every possible game state pre-programmed in, I would not hesitate to call it a game playing AI even though it lacks the ability to learn.

That would just follow a singular simple algorithm, not really intelligence in any sense.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by serf »

avitzurel wrote: post #30

Here's what I absolutely love about this... He's still a hacker. CEO of one of the biggest internet companies of our time and he still hacks. I explain to people all the time, true hackers are like true writers. I've heard writers talk about the same thing. It's like an urge of creativity inside you, you have to release it into something. You can also see in the comments section, he's replying to people and providing…

Gates' did something similar (as far as high-tech'ing your abode) in the 90s that I thought was also very hacker-ish.[0]

“First thing, as you come in, you’ll be presented with an electronic pin to clip to your clothes. This pin will connect you to the electronic services of the house,” Gates wrote in The Road Ahead. “The electronic pin you wear will tell the house who and where you are, and the house will use this information to try to meet and even anticipate your needs — all as unobtrusively as possible.” At the time, Gates speculated cameras might one day supplant the pins, as they’d be able to do facial recognition. He explained that the house would learn your preferences and adjust to your needs. Your affinity to dimmer lights, R&B, and Monet paintings would mean the lamps, music system, and screens would all adjust when you enter the room.

[0]: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/the-awesome-technology-ins...

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by grinich »

ryandrake wrote: post #85
smaili wrote: post #13

More than anything else, what stood out to me was his discipline for knowing how to manage his time in a way that enabled him to build something like this while still juggling the n number of other things on his plate.

I dunno--like any CEO or even VP or SVP-level executive, I'm sure he can afford executive assistants at work and nannies/assistants/drivers/servants at home to take care of all the normal mundane aspects of life that suck up so much of normal people's time, getting in the way of side projects. I'd guess he has more free time than the random "3rd engineer from the left" on one of his company's projects.

It turns out to be less about time and more about focus.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by user5994461 »

user837387 wrote: post #80
juancampa wrote: post #75

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Hey man, what are you side projects? I'm interested!

Unfortunately this is my throw away account. I speak my mind so I come off as a troll. I'll post the latest project I'm working under my real user id in a few months. I'm kicking myself since this appears to be a good opportunity for some self promotion. Fuck Me. Edit: This is making me realize that I should stop being an anonymous coward and put myself out there to try to make my projects and I known to the world. I…

> throw away account [...] being an anonymous coward

Well. In the current era of NSA and surveillance, it makes sense to make a new account for every message.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by mikeleeorg »

skummetmaelk wrote: post #71
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #58

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I think the remarkable bit is that he did this while being the CEO of Facebook. There's not a huge number of corporate CEOs who still code at all, and have time to put in a big project like this. And as someone who's worked with writing some of the same sort of code, it's really enjoyable to see someone drastically more talented making many of the same observations and encountering similar challenges.

It goes under CEO time as marketing.

I don't think he intended it to be marketing, but kudos to him for being able to spin it as a way to promote Facebook too.

I see it more as R&D than marketing, personally. His personal experiments may likely hint at new directions in which he wants to take his company. Depending on how you view Facebook, this could be terrifying or exciting.

One way I see it is: Facebook knows a lot about your (online) social interactions. Home-based AI would need to know a lot about your private behaviors and preferences. If they marry those two worlds, that's a heck of a lot of behavioral information to have. Google has a big lead in this area already, so if Facebook goes this direction too, it would be an interesting to see how it plays out.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by user5994461 »

Apocryphon wrote: post #62

Chances that Facebook will strike a deal with Disney to adopt the Jarvis name and Paul Bettany voice and roll out their own A.I. helper personality in the future to compete with Siri/Alexa/Cortana/Google Now eventually?

Jarvis is from Iron Man.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by user5994461 »

komali2 wrote: post #88
tejaswiy wrote: post #41

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It hopefully uses it's GPS in combination with the Google mapping data for speed limits along with signage on the road. Hilarious to think about nonetheless.

Probably right, because when I use google maps' navigation mode, it sometimes has a little speed limit sign in the top right corner.

All GPS have speed limits for all road, and they can beep when you go over the speed limits.

The speed is part of the map.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by solidr53 »

nodja wrote: post #108

If you're interested, you can recreate the work he did in a fraction of the time. https://home-assistant.io/ It's not voice centric like 'jarvis' would be, but it bridges most of the existing smart devices that exist right now and let's you do a plethora of many more things than 'jarvis' does. You can for example add gps tracking to your phone and have it control your thermostat for when you're close to home, or turn…

OpenHAB is way more robust IMO

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by Splendor »

solidr53 wrote: post #128
nodja wrote: post #108

If you're interested, you can recreate the work he did in a fraction of the time. https://home-assistant.io/ It's not voice centric like 'jarvis' would be, but it bridges most of the existing smart devices that exist right now and let's you do a plethora of many more things than 'jarvis' does. You can for example add gps tracking to your phone and have it control your thermostat for when you're close to home, or turn…

OpenHAB is way more robust IMO

Would you mind elaborating? What makes OpenHAB more robust?

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by [deleted] »

solidr53 wrote: post #128
nodja wrote: post #108

If you're interested, you can recreate the work he did in a fraction of the time. https://home-assistant.io/ It's not voice centric like 'jarvis' would be, but it bridges most of the existing smart devices that exist right now and let's you do a plethora of many more things than 'jarvis' does. You can for example add gps tracking to your phone and have it control your thermostat for when you're close to home, or turn…

OpenHAB is way more robust IMO

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