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Almost any google search you do or any siri question you ask takes advantage of the NLP research that has been produced in academia over the last decades. Theo

Almost any google search you do or any siri question you ask takes advantage of the NLP research that has been produced in academia over the last decades. Theoretical research of these subjects it's not like an open-source project used in industry: "who's using this tool to do x, y and z?". The output of NLP research is the combination of thousands of various papers that, all combined, makes something like a siri search possible.

julienreszka 8y ago
Is Siri any good ? I don't use siri I don't know, do you think it is?
- twright 8y ago
  Siri isn't very strong, it can answer (very) basic questions and resorts to web searches when it can't answer. I find it occasionally mishearing me or completely parsing my question incorrectly. I recall a particularly bad one: "set a timer for 3 minutes and 15 seconds" and somehow it interpreted it as an arithmetic question "the answer is 18." Alexa and particularly Google Assistant are much better, the latter retaining context between questions e.g: "who is the 44th president of the US" followed by "who is his wife?" is a neat trick.
  - akhilcacharya 8y ago
    Contextual carryover has been present in Alexa for a while too. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/15bf7d2a-5e5c-4d43-90ae-c2596c9cc3a6/how-alexa-is-learning-to-converse-more-naturally https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/15bf7d2a-5e5c-...
- anthony_doan 8y ago
  No way. Hello Google is miles better. Google got the upper hand on AI currently. You can see it with their camera AI technology Pixel 3 is top dog in camera even though it have one len. But Apple just took 2 famous Google AI researcher. So it seems that Apple is trying to catch up.
  - SimbaOnSteroids 8y ago
    I believe Apple's issue is lack of data.
    - anthony_doan 8y ago
      Oh really? Okay, I just read how two Google's top AI researchers went over to Apple so I just assume their problem was lack of AI expertise. But I can see your point since Apple isn't a software company that hoard massive amount of data like Google is doing.

julienreszka 8y ago

Is Siri any good ? I don't use siri I don't know, do you think it is?

twright 8y ago
Siri isn't very strong, it can answer (very) basic questions and resorts to web searches when it can't answer. I find it occasionally mishearing me or completely parsing my question incorrectly. I recall a particularly bad one: "set a timer for 3 minutes and 15 seconds" and somehow it interpreted it as an arithmetic question "the answer is 18." Alexa and particularly Google Assistant are much better, the latter retaining context between questions e.g: "who is the 44th president of the US" followed by "who is his wife?" is a neat trick.
- akhilcacharya 8y ago
  Contextual carryover has been present in Alexa for a while too. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/15bf7d2a-5e5c-4d43-90ae-c2596c9cc3a6/how-alexa-is-learning-to-converse-more-naturally https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/15bf7d2a-5e5c-...
anthony_doan 8y ago
No way. Hello Google is miles better. Google got the upper hand on AI currently. You can see it with their camera AI technology Pixel 3 is top dog in camera even though it have one len. But Apple just took 2 famous Google AI researcher. So it seems that Apple is trying to catch up.
- SimbaOnSteroids 8y ago
  I believe Apple's issue is lack of data.
  - anthony_doan 8y ago
    Oh really? Okay, I just read how two Google's top AI researchers went over to Apple so I just assume their problem was lack of AI expertise. But I can see your point since Apple isn't a software company that hoard massive amount of data like Google is doing.