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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.
How accurate? Accuracy is a value, not a state.
Our technology was initially designed to be used with external ASR. For sentences within our 18 domains, where the ASR is correct, we see accuracy (defined by mapping into the current domain and action) around 90%. The reality of course though is ASR is sometimes wrong, which does decrease our accuracy in practice. The best direct demonstration of practical accuracy is just try out the app ;)
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 sche…
It's pretty cool. Try it out.
I would use a good natural language understanding api to do basic research, ideally monitoring many different feeds for topics of interest. It could also be a good way to monitor trends or competitors. I can't think of many uses cases for natural language as an interface to a traditional website. If there's something that's more convenient to access with text/speech, the user can just use set commands. On the topic o…
That's a pretty sweet idea. I wonder how difficult it is to set up sharing of calendars, and the permissions that are involved in it.
Ideally, of course, your scheduler should be able to "propose" some times to George's, and let it decide and reply back with the chosen one.
From what I read, I don't really see a robust NLU engine here. I see a probabilistic transformation engine (maybe bootstrapped with some linguistic data structures) that identifies 7 buckets and then rephrases the query or request into a format better suited to achieve the desired result in that engine. This isn't too far from saying that you have a search engine that "knows" how to answer questions, because you have…
I feel that you have misunderstood what we have here. I agree that "true" understanding requires is almost an impossible problem to solve due to the fact that it requires context that is only available to the individual. However that level of understanding is not really necessary for applications today. What we are aiming to provide is a system that will allow developers to have natural language queries as their inpu…
From what I read, I don't really see a robust NLU engine here. I see a probabilistic transformation engine (maybe bootstrapped with some linguistic data structures) that identifies 7 buckets and then rephrases the query or request into a format better suited to achieve the desired result in that engine. This isn't too far from saying that you have a search engine that "knows" how to answer questions, because you have…
I feel that you have misunderstood what we have here. I agree that "true" understanding requires is almost an impossible problem to solve due to the fact that it requires context that is only available to the individual. However that level of understanding is not really necessary for applications today. What we are aiming to provide is a system that will allow developers to have natural language queries as their inpu…
From what I read, I don't really see a robust NLU engine here. I see a probabilistic transformation engine (maybe bootstrapped with some linguistic data structures) that identifies 7 buckets and then rephrases the query or request into a format better suited to achieve the desired result in that engine. This isn't too far from saying that you have a search engine that "knows" how to answer questions, because you have…
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…
From what I read, I don't really see a robust NLU engine here. I see a probabilistic transformation engine (maybe bootstrapped with some linguistic data structures) that identifies 7 buckets and then rephrases the query or request into a format better suited to achieve the desired result in that engine. This isn't too far from saying that you have a search engine that "knows" how to answer questions, because you have…
"Ok, you want Sushi. What places have you been to? Is there anything in particular you're looking for tonight?"
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I feel that you have misunderstood what we have here. I agree that "true" understanding requires is almost an impossible problem to solve due to the fact that it requires context that is only available to the individual. However that level of understanding is not really necessary for applications today. What we are aiming to provide is a system that will allow developers to have natural language queries as their inpu…
You'd be a whole lot better of saying you've written a natural-language interface to a number of search domains. You're promising a lot by claiming to have an API that not only accomplishes understanding (which, contrary to your claim, is reserved for much deeper and more structured inferences than what you're providing here -- are you transforming sentences into a formal language before feeding it to epicurious, or…
I'm optimistic, by the way, and think that though "objective" word meaning is a cognitive illusion, we will crack the code within the next 20 years. But there is nothing on the forefront of that work about this system.