How Zuck Built His Jarvis AI Bot from APIs - The New Stack

You may have heard by now that Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's personal project for 2016 was to build his own Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot, which he affectionately named Jarvis. Zuckerberg's AI is far from Iron Man's fully functional cognitive assistant, called Jarvis, or even Rosie, the beleaguered maid of "The Jetsons." Still, for 100 hours worth of work, it manages to accomplish a few basic tasks. Using a combination of Python, PHP and Objective C and overlays natural language processing, speech recognition, face recognition, and reinforcement learning APIs, allowing him to talk to Jarvis on his phone or computer and control connected appliances, allowing him to turn on and off lights and music, launch a gray t-shirt from his t-shirt cannon, and even have warm toast ready for him in the morning. But just how does one build an AI? Iddo Gino, CEO of Rapid API, connected the dots.