With the 2016 coming close, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has completed his personal challenge to built "Jarvis," his AI-powered personal assistant. In his lengthy blog post, Zuck describes the types of tasks his Jarvis bot can accomplish. The personal assistant or what few call a butler, is customized to perform multiple actions at Mark’s residence.

It can:

Communicate on his computer and phone

Understand the text messages and Voice commands

Play music based on his own or his wife Priscilla's preference

Learn new words, concepts and patterns

Control his home appliances

Entertain his daughter Max

Run face recognition to identify the person at the door

Mark’s simple AI to run his home -- like Jarvis in Iron Man, uses several AI techniques including speech and face recognition, reinforcement learning, natural language processing. It is written in PHP, Objective C and Python. In coming years, Zuckerberg has expansion plans for his AI Bot, he cited building an Android app and setting up the Jarvis voice terminals in the entire house.

He also expressed in details about the challenges he faced while developing the innovative AI software, where is the AI heading and how building the Jarvis Project has turned up to be an ‘intellectual challenge’. One of the important takeaways was:

‘although the AI is advancing quickly, it still requires a decent amount of human guidance.’

He further added:

‘I probably wouldn't be able to build a system that could learn completely new skills on its own -- unless I made some fundamental breakthrough in the state of AI along the way.’

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He expressed his intent for developing an AI assistant that learns by himself and one fine day, hopes to, open-source his code for the people.

What else does the Facebook CEO believes and further wishes to achieve about the Virtual Assistance and Artificial Intelligence in near future?

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