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The primary challenge is the stated example is speech and NLP. It's not building the decision trees. We can do that today with off the shelf technology. Hell, i
by KirinDave 13y ago
The primary challenge is the stated example is speech and NLP. It's not building the decision trees. We can do that today with off the shelf technology. Hell, it's the kind of thing people love to hack together with their Arduinos.
Microsoft even has a pretty slick thing called on{X} that does some amazing tricks with rules reacting to network events and geolocation tools.
Although I confess that commercializing a system that lets you asynchronously start potentially unmonitored exothermic reactions in your home? Probably hard. :D
- hyc_symas 13y agoThere are these wonderful inventions called automatic electric kettles, you should look into them. They seem to be commonplace in Europe, not so much in the US. But seriously, all it takes is a bimetallic strip to turn the kettle off when it reaches the desired temperature. Eliza ran in 16KB of RAM. The logic flow is easy, all you need is a sufficiently large dictionary.