Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg on Monday 19th 2016, took the world by surprise with a video showing how he used his artificial intelligence program, Jarvis AI, a bot Iron man fans can’t forget, and was able to control his home, appliances, lights, temperature, music, security and other gadgets with his program

In his remarks, he explained Jarvis AI, was his personal challenge for 2016, and building a program that runs just like what we have in Iron man was a project well accomplished for him, according to Mark, his goal was to learn about the state of the artificial intelligence, how they work and how best to further improve on them

“So far this year, I’ve built a simple AI that I can talk to on my phone and computer, that can control my home, including lights, temperature, appliances, music and security, that learns my tastes and patterns, that can learn new words and concepts, and that can even entertain Max.”

How Facebook Jarvis AI works

According to Mark, Jarvis uses several artificial intelligence techniques, including natural language processing, speech recognition, face recognition, and reinforcement learning, written in Python, PHP and Objective C. he however went further to explain how he was able to build the program, with few diagrams to portray his point

Credits : Facebook : Diagram of the systems connected to build Jarvis

6 Things you need to know about Jarvis AI

Jarvis is Named After the Stark Family’s Butler Turned Artificial Intelligence Servant in Iron Man
It can be used to connect virtually all your home appliances and electronics
Facebook AI was build by Mark Zuckerberg using Natural Language
Jarvis uses Vision and Face Recognition, and can be used to control security, doors and gate, Mark was able to use it to open the gate for his friend, Andrea

Credits : Facebook, Jarvis opening the gate for Andrea

It also support voice and speech recognition, interestingly it can distinguish Mark’s voice from his wife’s (Getty)

Credits : Facebook, Mark using his AI voice command to request for a fresh t-shirt.

Command can also be given via Facebook Messenger

What a great privileged to have known this young, a very creative, humble and intelligent CEO, well we have a lot to learn from him, and we can’t just wait to see what 2017 as to offer!! You may also check how to make Facebook messenger groups video calls