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10:36 | 18-10-2011 | Apple, Software, Technology | No Comments

интервью бывшего ведущего разработчика Siri:

Often times reviews on iTunes [App Store] would comment on how the Siri app seems to do a better job than the Nuance app or Dragon dictate. The iPhone application is just the portal to the brains of Siri running on a bunch of servers. There, it can take a sentence and dissect it naturally. An example might be “Book a table at Il Fornaio in Novi for 7PM” and it determines that “Il Fornaio” is likely the name of a place and “Novi” is likely a location. This is referred to as natural language processing, and it is incredibly difficult to get right.

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Tell another system to “Book at table at Il Fornaio at 7:00 with my mom;” the system can no doubt create a calendar entry at 7:00 and might even know who your mom is. It might even be possible for that device to figure out the closest Il Fornaio restaurant. What differentiates the NLP logic in Siri is that it will maintain context so you could say: “Also send her an email reminder.” Siri will understand ‘her’ and compose the email accordingly.

еще не AI, но уже рядом:

Siri is basically a contextual, semantic, personalized search engine[1]. We affectionately called it a “Do” engine. A search engine can evaluate text strings and look for matching results. A “Do” engine maintains awareness of the user and everything it knows about that user and processes strings in the context of the user.

совсем рядом:

For Siri to be really effective, it has to learn a great deal about the user. If it knows where you work, where you live and what kind of places you like to go, it can really start to tailor itself as it becomes an expert on you individually. This requires a great deal of trust in the institution collecting this data.

очевидно, что это новый интерфейс. путь, которым мы сообщаем данные машине. такой же, как сенсорный экран, клавиатура, мышь или, например, Kinect. и вопрос, по сути, только о времени — сколько еще месяцев будем привыкать общаться с телефоном, встречая удивленные взгляды? и как долго они будут удивленными?

the future has already arrived.

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[1]search engine, да.

  

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