The Setting

This blog post concerns the setting of Zuckerberg's big announcement.

Sharing-Too-Much-Information, 12/2012, wp-content; Public Domain.

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After choosing from one of his 20 gray shirts to wear on the fine, blue-skied Wednesday morning, Mark Zuckerberg pecked away at his keyboard in the morning of January 27^th, 2016 from his Palo Alto estate. He was to write a Facebook post. No, not a post sharing a picture of a dog talking, or somebody jumping off of a roof into a swimming pool, and most definitely not a compilation of Donald Trump lip-syncing “Hotline Bling” by Drake. He was to write an article about Artificial Intelligence, but not just about it in general – but about his ambition to make a robot. A robot that would function as a personal servant of sorts, “like Jarvis from Ironman”. The cold, plastic-y smell of the keyboard and computer, coupled with a pointed scent of both carpet and hardwood fill his nostrils. The bright light of the computer screen radiates against his pale face, like the sun shines on the sea. However this place is not like the sea. Yes, it is beautiful. However, it’s more relentless than the pounding tides of the ominous waves. When he clicked the publish button at 9:37 AM, it was all out there. His intentions to create the robot, and his opinion that we should not fear the AI, but embrace them. Soon after, he was met by a cold sea of opposition. Huge figureheads of the tech world would soon log in to their phones and see that Zuckerberg had launched himself onto the digital battleground known as Artificial Intelligence, armed with keyboard and mouse, against the giants of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking.