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> They said computers would never be able to understand natural language. Then Apple built Siri. I think it’s a stretch to say that Siri understands natural la

• noirbot 8y ago
  And even then, it occasionally "corrects" what it thought it heard to instead be some clearly nonsense sentence. Just the morning I asked Siri to "Remind me to set beers aside for the party" and now I have a reminder to "Set Beer's aside for the pantry." after clearly seeing it have the exact right sentence for a second before adjusting to that.
  • mikestew 8y ago
    Every year I attend a bluegrass music festival called Wintergrass. Siri knows about Wintergrass, she sees it in my calendar and I've seen her recognize the spoken word before. Even though I live down the road, this year me and some jamming buddies thought it would be nice to have a room to stash instruments, nap, whatever. "Hey, Siri, remind me to get a room for Wintergrass." "Okay, I'll remind you to get a room for one in the ass." One would also think that Siri has figured out my sexual preferences by now. (To be clear, she obviously has not.) But to the point, the hype of speech recognition over the decades, and the state of the art today, are why I am not convinced I'll live long enough to see true self-driving cars despite the current hype of that tech.