Jarvis

I wrote about Facebook yesterday, and then I saw this article so I thought why not continue the streak.

Mark Zuckerberg, you know, the founder of Facebook, wrote this little piece about something he calls “Jarvis.”

My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI — like Jarvis in Iron Man. Now that it's working and the…

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, December 19, 2016

I am curious to hear your thoughts. But here are my initial reactions:

  • The first is that I am excited. The connected home is coming and I think it will dramatically improve our lives.
  • We live in a bubble. The connected home is not an urgent problem. It is not really an important problem. It is a luxury item that will improve the top’s lives and probably leave out the majority for decades.
  • Technology is going to continue get closer and closer to our lives. Today, we cannot go without our phones for what feels like more than an hour. But imagine 50 years from now. We probably will NOT be able to NOT interact with a piece of tech or AI.