Forget Siri. When Mark Zuckerberg wants an AI assistant, he recruits the "Voice of God."

 

别提Siri了。当马克·扎克伯格想要一个人工智能助手时，他聘请了“上帝之音”。
 

 

The Facebook CEO and cofounder posted a video teasing an artificial intelligence application on Tuesday that he built for his home, voiced by none other than actor Morgan Freeman.

 

In October, Zuckerberg asked his followers¹ for suggestions to be the voice for Jarvis, his AI tool inspired by Iron Man. Freeman was a top pick.

 

Zuckerberg personally called Freeman to ask him to do it. Robert Downey Jr. had also offered his services.

 

Like Amazon's Alexa, Jarvis can be activated² by voice (or by text) and connect with various objects in the home.

 

Zuckerberg made it his New Year's resolution to "build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work." The project proved more challenging than he expected.

 

He struggled to find appliances whose power could be controlled remotely by an app and had to figure out the nuances of language used to request songs. In total, he spent about 100 hours building Jarvis -- while running Facebook.

 

"As the CEO of Facebook, I don't get much time to write code in our internal environment. I've never stopped coding, but these days I mostly build personal projects like Jarvis," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post this week.

 

In the future, Zuckerberg hopes to build an Android app for Jarvis and connect it to more appliances and rooms in his home.

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