Mark Zuckerberg's challenge in 2016 is to build an AI butler like in 'Iron Man'

For the past year, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been reading two months. He's spent other years learning Mandarin or only eating meat that he killed.

This year, Zuckerberg is clearly envious of Iron Man Tony Stark's futuristic life. He's challenged himself to code his own version of JARVIS from "Iron Man", the digital butler who controlled Stark's life and home. 

Zuckerberg says he'll start with understanding some of basic smart home technology that's out there - he's a fan of Amazon's Echo - but then he wants to build something that's custom to his own home. 

"Then I'll start teaching it to understand my voice to control everything in our home -- music, lights, temperature and so on. I'll teach it to let friends in by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell. I'll teach it to let me know if anything is going on in Max's room that I need to check on when I'm not with her," Zuckerberg wrote in the announcement.

Here's Zuckerberg's full announcement:

 

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