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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by ckrailo on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @06:58PM (#4573180)
I wish there was something I could hook up to my electronic life (calendars, search engines, knowledge stores, bug tracking, etc) and send IMs to from all devices. Like Siri, but more useful and more connected. A general, all around AI instead of a glorified Google search with speech.

Example commands I wish I could do (some would require me hosting a server to communicate with my home, but I'm okay with this):

"Lock my doors." "I'm going home." (Notify people, set AC, bring up a map, etc.) "What's the weather tonight?" "Write 'happy birthday!' on my friends' Facebook walls each time it's their birthday." "Ask my girlfriend what's for dinner when she gets on Skype." ...and so on...

That said, I'm super excited about this and would love to see Maluuba's work accessible on all devices so I can just IM the service instead of using a phone when I'm at home.

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by StavrosK on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:32PM (#4573349)
I had this idea not too long ago. An assistant as a service, that would be accessible on IM and would do increasingly more things, starting with handling the scheduling of appointments between two people completely automatically (it would email them and ask them if they're available, of course).

I made a small prototype, but it was way too limited, as NLP is a huge problem. Even a simple TODO list/alerts/meeting scheduling app with calendar integration was very, very complicated.

I'm pretty sure lots of people would pay for it, though.

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by caublestone on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @08:31PM (#4573575)
https://lizibot.com/

It's pretty cool. Try it out.

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Re:How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understand... by jpantony on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @07:05PM (#4573220)
I'm excited to see someone talking about a single unified nexus for everything. That is part of the future vision of our company, and smart homes are an example of where we want to go in the next few years :)
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