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Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by andrewstuart2 »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #44
IanCal wrote: post #27

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I think what's particularly great about this in a way is that it's not too remarkable. I'm not knocking it, but it's awesome to be around when creating an natural language, speech controlled, available anywhere system with face recognition to automate your own home is something that can be done in 100 hours.

I agree with the sentiment, the hours of course are the assembly time. When people ask me the role of an architect I try to impress upon them that well architected subsystems will be readily composable into a variety of forms and uses. That amplifies the millions of hours of research and development into a tool that can be wielded by a motivated individual or team to tremendous advantage.

95% of the time, good software creation is really just construction, not engineering. There are great paradigms and solutions to the majority of problems. There's room for design and UX, but you shouldn't need to custom engineer the walls out of carbon fiber or some aerospace composites unless you're launching the house to Mars. The engineering aspect really only comes into play when no components meet your needs.

The construction metaphor is full of great wisdom to be gleaned as software developers. And I'm not just saying that in hopes I didn't waste all those hours watching History Channel documentaries. :-D

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by user837387 »

sfeng wrote: post #52
user837387 wrote: post #39

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Hey, I also work my ass off to the point of getting sick and I have accomplished nothing. By that I mean I have not made any money. I've listed some of my projects here and not even a single up vote. I don't like it but it is what it is. I'm simply trying to say that I'm no less ambitious, and that is probably true of a lot of us here. The gods of luck have simply not been on my side, yet.

It's very true that how hard you work doesn't correlate directly with success. That said, learning how to work hard is one of the best things you can do to become successful. Once you master that, you then have to learn from each experience. If some of the things you're doing haven't worked out, try to examine them and figure out where you went wrong. Feel free to post some here for others to chime in. Also, don't ne…

This is really good advice. Thanks.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by jk563 »

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?

Surely it's just a matter of time before someone gets a blank cheque and hires Paul Bettany for whatever is required to voice one of these systems. I'm through and through Google to a fault, but that would seriously sway me. I'd definitely give the Bettany system a go!

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by mywittyname »

kefka wrote: post #86
roryisok wrote: post #83

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So I make a 3d printed head of zuckerberg from a composite of online photos. Easy.

Indeed. Security isn't a binary. There's plenty of layers. And we went from "Print picture" to "Compute Sfm 3d object from thousands of photos, and have access to a 3d printer that large that can print human-sized heads, and paint it appropriately in the correct color-space as to trigger the right facial recognition" It's then trivial to add a feature of 'Blink' and 'Smile'. We have public, free haar and lbp cascades…

After all that, your low-brow partner in crime picks up a rock, smashes a window, and bob's your uncle.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by marme »

beeker87 wrote: post #47

Is anyone else seeing the possible security risk shown in the 'Vision and Face Recognition' section? The main concern I would have is someone spoofing the visual recognition system with something as crude as photographs, or something more advanced like a mask. He states in that section, "Once it identifies the person, it checks a list to confirm I'm expecting that person, and if I am then it will let them in and tell…

this is a guy who has multiple armed security guards outside hit home 24/7. Plus the fact he almost certainly has staff and assistants who are coming and going from the house. There is no way you make it to the front door if you are not expected, this is just to save his staff from having to use the key or for someone to open the door for them. This would never be secure enough for a normal persons house

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by abluecloud »

timdorr wrote: post #89
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…

Funny thing: Based on the screenshot in the post header, he's using async/await and therefore the Hack language (instead of vanilla PHP): https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/async/introduction

and yet still doesn't use array dereferencing

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by mgiannopoulos »

sandworm101 wrote: post #6
mgiannopoulos wrote: post #3

Honest question on the difficulty of this : >> In some ways, this challenge was easier than I expected. In fact, my running challenge (I also set out to run 365 miles in 2016) took more total time At a casual pace of 10 minutes per mile, that's around 60 hours. Does needing 60 hours to build all that sound plausible to anyone familiar with the task? Edit: at the end he notes that "I spent about 100 hours building Jar…

In his world "finding the time" to do the running counts as part of the effort. I swim farther than that each year an see no acomplishment in such a distance.

Still, Mark Zuckerberg writes about a total of 100 hours on this project, is that plausible?

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by zingermc »

tejaswiy wrote: post #41
komali2 wrote: post #35

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I've wanted to test something similar - holding up a giant "Speed Limit: 75MPH" sign when a google car drives by on these little 30mph Mountain View roads and see what happens. Probably nothing but I can't shake the comical thought of one of those little bugs rocketing to turbo mode while the dude inside is frantically slapping the big red "stop" button.

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.

Self-driving cars need to support unplanned changes to the road, such as construction zones.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by Ajedi32 »

chime wrote: post #76

For me, the primary takeaway was: "This suggests that future AI products cannot be solely focused on voice and will need a private messaging interface as well." > This preference for text communication over voice communication fits a pattern we're seeing with Messenger and WhatsApp overall, where the volume of text messaging around the world is growing much faster than the volume of voice communication. This suggests…

I personally liked this statement:

> One thing that surprised me about my communication with Jarvis is that when I have the choice of either speaking or texting, I text much more than I would have expected. This is for a number of reasons, but mostly it feels less disturbing to people around me. If I'm doing something that relates to them, like playing music for all of us, then speaking feels fine, but most of the time text feels more appropriate.

I've found myself doing the same thing. For queries and commands which involve only myself I prefer to type unless I'm alone, but for questions which involve the people around me asking verbally seems more useful.

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