Siri is the Next Big Thing

Re:Siri is the Next Big Thing by yalimgerger on Friday October 14, 2011 @09:49AM (#3111134)

Hi, Author here. I think you make an excellent point. I think the revolution will start from small things where it is OK to make an error. Stuff like Siri does. Then it will move on to productivity tools or the like...where it is still OK to make a mistake. And A.I. will improve really fast, like the PC has improved. I think in 5-10 years we won't believe what we have accomplished. I think Siri crosses an important threshold.

Didn't know about Google. They might be working on something but I don't know of any production use of their A.I. software.

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Re:Siri is the Next Big Thing by helton on Friday October 14, 2011 @10:00AM (#3111179)

Google Translate uses AI. It uses currently translated text to predict translation of strings that you provide.

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Re:Siri is the Next Big Thing by yalimgerger on Friday October 14, 2011 @10:03AM (#3111195)

True. Thank you for pointing that out. I missed it.

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Re:Siri is the Next Big Thing by uniclaude on Saturday October 15, 2011 @01:53AM (#3114182)

Google uses AI for the Priority Inbox functionality of Gmail. It also seems that AI & machine learning are used for displaying ads, see [1].

[1]:http://www.quora.com/Why-is-machine-learning-used-heavily-fo...

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