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Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel by untog on Thursday December 15, 2011 @10:37AM (#3356530)
Data? What data? Siri is AI which tries to understand what I said

By using a vast amount of data. Words, phrases, accents... it all involves crunching a lot of data. That's why Siri isn't actually intelligent- if you ask it a question it hasn't been programmed to answer it doesn't work out what you're asking for- it just tells you that it doesn't understand.

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Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel by atirip on Thursday December 15, 2011 @12:37PM (#3357049)
So what specifically in this crunching is so specific that Google has an advantage?
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Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel by untog on Thursday December 15, 2011 @03:00PM (#3357646)
It doesn't have to be specific. Google has extensive experience in crunching incomprehensibly huge datasets into meaningful, end-user responses. Apple does not.
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Re:Google is close to releasing Siri rival called Majel by dextorious on Thursday December 15, 2011 @01:58PM (#3357401)
Google has had billions of people asking billions of questions to it, and then has seen what answers (webpages) they find most satisfactory (i.e the navigate to from the search results).
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