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They didn't say that they invented general intelligence. This is clearly providing a natural language interface to an existing api. It doesn't take degrees in n
by hooande 14y ago
They didn't say that they invented general intelligence. This is clearly providing a natural language interface to an existing api. It doesn't take degrees in neuroscience and philosophy to do that.
They've clearly spent a lot of time to build a working product. You reacted to only a few words from the page title. It's easy to read books on the theory of intelligence, much harder to make a contribution by trying to solve a real problem.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoI am sure they are earnest in their efforts, I chuckled when I read "Some of our engineers have been working on this problem for two years, ..." because I know engineers who have been working on that problem for 20 years and they still haven't got it right. One of them (at Intel in the '80s) had a poster that said "Time flies like an Arrow, Fruit Flies like a Banana." which captured the challenge for him. One of the founders of Android, Rich Miner, was an Amiga guy that I knew peripherally through the developers network. He did a company called WildFire which was an assistant that would be on the phone with you that you could ask things of or make requests too. Also felt the problem space was huge, then there were no less than three Phd's at Google who gave a tech talk on the Goog-411 project where they were listening to people ask for phone numbers and trying to figure out what number they were looking for. (one domain of questions so almost like cheating). Perhaps they just write optimistically, I am excited to seem them working on the problem (I'd suggest they search blekko since we can add slashtags and do better domain search but that is just me). Having seen the folks who have run at this problem and been knocked on their backsides I have tremendous respect for taking on a really really hard problem. Can't wait for the beta.
- jpantony 14y agohi, You can actually try out our product right now if you have an android. We're live on the play store. You can find us at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maluuba.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maluuba.an... .
- StavrosK 14y agoIt's not compatible with any of my devices, a Galaxy Nexus and a Transformer Prime. Any idea why?
- jpantony 14y agoWhat country are you in? We're currently only available in Canada and the US but we're expanding very soon.
- StavrosK 14y agoAh, I'm in Greece, so that'd be why. Thanks.
- StavrosK 14y agoAlso, do you know how I can revoke its access to my data? I can't find it anywhere in the Google profile options...
- StavrosK 14y agoAlso, do you know how I can revoke its access to my data? I can't find it anywhere in the Google profile options...
- tomp 14y agoWould you be willing to send me the .apk (I'm from Slovenia, and would like to try your service, and I'm a developer, so I'd understand if it rejected/got confused with some queries)?
- joe_the_user 14y agoActually, saying you have "an accurate Natural Language Understanding" api pretty much is saying you've invented general intelligence.