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Siri disappoints me. It is limited to the 10 styles of commands and it from what I have read it cant interpret different grammatical forms of similar search co
by samirahmed 15y ago
Siri disappoints me.
It is limited to the 10 styles of commands and it from what I have read it cant interpret different grammatical forms of similar search contexts.
I have written software that can do the barebones of what Siri can do (www.samir-ahmed.com/iris.html). It is far less efficient flexible and polished. But I have 6 months of software experience and Siri has 8 years of DARPA quality experience.
I dont think that google is going to suffer to much unless
A - Siri can integrate well with other apps so that app developers can contribute to its grammar and its ability to interface with twitter, foursquare, facebook, open table etc.
This is open the floodgates for Siri to basically be the ultimate iPhone utility, allowing people to use it to interface with their entire phone in a new way
B - Siri starts to get smarter - and I mean creepy smart. When your wife sends you an email, Siri needs to read it. Understand what your wife is like, and store that information. It needs to do this with every contact so that it has context. This will require an immense amount of machine learning and natural language processing.
What this will do however, is open the doors for a variety of new applications.
You can data mine with Siri
E.g -"What did my wife ask me to pick up from the supermarket"
When you query your contacts, it can make smart recommendations
E.g -"Remind me to buy my wife a present"
Siri can look into your correspondence and make recommendations.
Being able to do all these things will make Siri an order of magnitude more useful, open to door to advertising revenue too and kick Google in the balls.
Until Siri can do these things, Siri is will not be the future of search.
- mediaman 15y agoSamir, I read through your site and the sample video and it looks quite impressive. Put a good-looking front-end to it and I don't know how anyone would differentiate it from Siri, except for some differences in what API 'verbs' the system is capable (Siri knows how to manage my calendar, but Iris knows how to get content from YouTube, for example). Iris even knows how to concisely get some info that Siri doesn't perform well with; for example, it gives a concise summary in response to a question about who a particular soccer player is, whereas Siri would probably just punt me to the web or at best pull up a long WolframAlpha response. Anyone know why Siri seems only as capable (and in some respects less so) than this 4 week project done by a junior in college? Or (besides the UI work) is there something majorly different? My understanding is that the speech recognition isn't special with Siri, Apple just licensed tech from Nuance, known for their Dragon Dictation product line.