I’ve seen Iron Man twice so far (it’s only been out for a week) and it’s a great movie.  I keep telling my friends that it’s my biography from the future, but they changed my name to Tony Stark for my protection.  One of the coolest things from the movie is Jarvis, the Artificially Intelligent “Butler” that interacts with future me Tony Stark.  They have conversations and Jarvis can basically do anything.  Very natural conversations… Jarvis can find out anything.

As soon as I got home from the movie (the second time) I started messing with the built-in voice recognition on my mac.  I now have a new side project once my thesis is done… Build Jarvis.

Granted… I won’t have anything remotely close to what is in the movie… but maybe I can figure out something that could have a reasonable conversation… I could add in “learning” later (if it’s even possible).  I would need something that resembles ALICE or Smarter Child… I used to mess around with those a couple years ago… maybe I can tie it together with the speech recognition.

Jarvis from Iron Man