Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

maluu.ba

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 45 posts

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#21

Post by apetresc »

fatbat wrote: post #17
pdat wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi, Well currently we support 4 actions within calendar, "CREATE_EVENT", "SEARCH_CALENDAR", "MODIFY_EVENT" and "DELETE_EVENT". There are a number of different entities including "dateRange, lengthOfTime, timeRange, date, time, meetingTopic, contactName, friendOrRelative, location, originalTime, originalDate, originalLocation, replacementTime, replacementDate" and a few others I'm sure I've missed. For reminder we sup…

Hi! Thanks for the reply! One more quick one. :) Are the "time" entities relative or absolute time or either?

We normalize relative times so that they're absolute. So, "remind me to marinate the chicken in 2 hours" will get normalized to 6:00 PM (assuming it's being said at 4:00 PM)

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#22

Post by jpantony »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #16
hooande wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

I 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…

hi,

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.an... .

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#23

Post by jpantony »

ckrailo wrote: post #18

I wish there was something I could hook up to my electronic life (calendars, search engines, knowledge stores, bug tracking, etc) and send IMs to from all devices. Like Siri, but more useful and more connected. A general, all around AI instead of a glorified Google search with speech. Example commands I wish I could do (some would require me hosting a server to communicate with my home, but I'm okay with this): "Lock…

I'm excited to see someone talking about a single unified nexus for everything. That is part of the future vision of our company, and smart homes are an example of where we want to go in the next few years :)

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#24

Post by fatbat »

jpantony wrote: post #19
fatbat wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! Thanks for the reply! One more quick one. :) Are the "time" entities relative or absolute time or either?

Currently we support relative to the current time ("three hours from now") or absolute ("six pm"). We'd be happy to extend it however if we saw demand for extra functionality :) .

A strtotime() with voice? Awesome and thank you!

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#25

Post by StavrosK »

ckrailo wrote: post #18

I wish there was something I could hook up to my electronic life (calendars, search engines, knowledge stores, bug tracking, etc) and send IMs to from all devices. Like Siri, but more useful and more connected. A general, all around AI instead of a glorified Google search with speech. Example commands I wish I could do (some would require me hosting a server to communicate with my home, but I'm okay with this): "Lock…

I had this idea not too long ago. An assistant as a service, that would be accessible on IM and would do increasingly more things, starting with handling the scheduling of appointments between two people completely automatically (it would email them and ask them if they're available, of course).

I made a small prototype, but it was way too limited, as NLP is a huge problem. Even a simple TODO list/alerts/meeting scheduling app with calendar integration was very, very complicated.

I'm pretty sure lots of people would pay for it, though.

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#26

Post by StavrosK »

jpantony wrote: post #22
ChuckMcM wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 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…

hi, 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.an... .

It's not compatible with any of my devices, a Galaxy Nexus and a Transformer Prime. Any idea why?

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#27

Post by jpantony »

StavrosK wrote: post #26
jpantony wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi, 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.an... .

It's not compatible with any of my devices, a Galaxy Nexus and a Transformer Prime. Any idea why?

What country are you in? We're currently only available in Canada and the US but we're expanding very soon.

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#28

Post by StavrosK »

jpantony wrote: post #27
StavrosK wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not compatible with any of my devices, a Galaxy Nexus and a Transformer Prime. Any idea why?

What country are you in? We're currently only available in Canada and the US but we're expanding very soon.

Ah, I'm in Greece, so that'd be why. Thanks.

Re: How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API?

#30

Post by StavrosK »

jpantony wrote: post #27
StavrosK wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not compatible with any of my devices, a Galaxy Nexus and a Transformer Prime. Any idea why?

What country are you in? We're currently only available in Canada and the US but we're expanding very soon.

Also, do you know how I can revoke its access to my data? I can't find it anywhere in the Google profile options...
Post reply on HN