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Amazing history, thanks! Siri is a commercial spinoff of a DARPA AI project Interesting example of how a substantial innovation (like Siri) yet again does
by platz 14y ago
Amazing history, thanks!
Siri is a commercial spinoff of a DARPA AI project
Interesting example of how a substantial innovation (like Siri) yet again does not come from a private company, but from a R&D or such funded project without a short-term capitalist adgenda. Also I'd bet that this fact is largely unknown; this I'd understand is also characteristic. -- No wonder we're having problems getting public funding for "actual" new tech.
- zmanian 14y agoGoogle has a structural advantage over Apple and MSFT in natural language. Apple has plenty of cash to buy Nuance to integrate Voice Recognition technology but lacks the management bandwidth. Microsoft Research has done a lot of path breaking work in natural language recognition but MSFT management seems to be actively hostile to their R&D group. Google has natural language features in all their core product areas and management that prides itself on dog fooding their own R&D. I'm a Google shareholder for these reasons.