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To be fair, you can kinda talk to Google assistant in a "question response" type capacity and it does pretty well.

• arghwhat 8y ago
  You can also kinda talk to ELIZA. Google Assistant, Apple Siri and Amazon Echo are all quite fancy natural language parsers. After parsing, it's just a group of "dumb" (wo)man-made widgets.
  • fjsolwmv 8y ago
    There not entirely true. Google Search will answer a question with an automatically extracted excerpt from a website page. Watson did the similar with its Jeopardy system
    • arghwhat 8y ago
      Only in some cases, supposedly as a fallback.
    • vertexFarm 8y ago
      Is that not parsing and keyword searching? Once again there's no "cognitive computing" going on. Which is a really weird and nebulous thing to define, by the way. I think we aren't going to have super convincing cognitive computing until we have something approaching AGI. Which of course is waaay different from the AI and machine learning that is popular today, despite most laypeople conflating any mention of AI with AGI. Of course, when IBM is making an ad, they are largely aiming at laypeople.
• sgt101 8y ago
  Search and command interfaces are doable (within reasonable expectations) dialogs just aren't without eye popping engineering challenges (like 100k branches hand engineered onto trees + lots of deep learning.) Also we (science) know shockingly little about real dialogs and their challenges as far as I can find out - but I am not a linguist and am angling here fore some killer references !