Remember that artificial intelligence Mark Zuckerberg said he was going to build to control his house? It sounds like he actually made it — and he’s almost ready to show it to the public. “I got it to the point where I can control the lights, I can control the gates, I can control the temperature,” he said at a Facebook Q&A in Rome this week. “It’s getting there.”
Zuckerberg says he hopes to have a demo of the project available sometime next month, and credits a lot of the AI’s success to his engineering team at work. “It’s awesome because I get to interact with all these Facebook engineers who are doing this awesome AI work in speech recognition, in face recognition,” he says. “I programmed it so now, when I walk up to my door, my gate, I don’t have to put in a code or something like that to get in — put in a key — it just sees my face and lets me in.” Even so, the AI isn’t quite ready for primetime: Zuckerberg says the house only responds to his own voice, much to his wife’s disappointment. “I’ll give her access once I’m done.” Sure you will, Zuck. Sure you will.
