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Oh awesome, let's see... how many atoms are there in the universe? "The number of atoms in the entire observable universe is estimated to be within the range of 1078 to 1082." Thank you Google! http://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+atoms+are+in+the+uni... ]
The article concludes that google is dramatically ahead, which is no suprise but I AM suprised, anecdotally, how good Siri is vs previous iterations on my iphone 6 and OS 8 It feels close to "good enough" for the majority of functions I actually use eg: dictate an email, get directions, lookup a contact, and dial a phone number. My sense is that Apple will nail the base functions so that most users, self included, wo…
> In addition, this was a straight up knowledge box comparison, not a personal assistant comparison. For purposes of this study, a “knowledge box” or “knowledge panel” is defined as content in the search results that attempts to directly answer a question asked in a search query.
The article concludes that google is dramatically ahead, which is no suprise but I AM suprised, anecdotally, how good Siri is vs previous iterations on my iphone 6 and OS 8 It feels close to "good enough" for the majority of functions I actually use eg: dictate an email, get directions, lookup a contact, and dial a phone number. My sense is that Apple will nail the base functions so that most users, self included, wo…
Oh awesome, let's see... how many atoms are there in the universe? "The number of atoms in the entire observable universe is estimated to be within the range of 1078 to 1082." Thank you Google! http://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+atoms+are+in+the+uni... ]
Try it on Wolfram Alpha. Actually, they all seem to me pretty limited compared to the answers you get from Wolfram Alpha. Also c.f. the responses to one of their test questions, "how much is a quarter cup of butter?". Google makes fun of the inquiry. Wolfram Alpha gives you a thorough nutritional profile, and links to variations based on international cup sizing and different types of butter.
Slightly OT, but in school I remember a teach talking about how good voice to text has gotten but was stuck, stating it was roughly about a 70% accuracy, but that we were pretty much at a wall there and haven't moved much in the last decade. Has there been any major advances in voice recognition other than just growing your speech corpus?
I think it's been mostly throwing hardware at the problem. Server hardware, backed by terabytes of context data. I remember back in the day, most of the errors were the exact same errors that a human would make. Even you and I only really hear 95% or so of the words someone says. But we can fill in the rest from the context. It always amazes me when I dictate some sentence to my phone, and at the end I see one of the…
Oh awesome, let's see... how many atoms are there in the universe? "The number of atoms in the entire observable universe is estimated to be within the range of 1078 to 1082." Thank you Google! http://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+atoms+are+in+the+uni... ]
Try it on Wolfram Alpha. Actually, they all seem to me pretty limited compared to the answers you get from Wolfram Alpha. Also c.f. the responses to one of their test questions, "how much is a quarter cup of butter?". Google makes fun of the inquiry. Wolfram Alpha gives you a thorough nutritional profile, and links to variations based on international cup sizing and different types of butter.
The result Google also gives you is wrong (since its also a just a snippet).
FWIW, I just switched from Windows Phone to iOS -- from the 1020 to iPhone6+. Personally, I preferred Cortana over Siri. And it basically comes down to speed and responsiveness. Cortana is much quicker to launch, and much quicker to find results. I haven't noticed any discernable difference in their query results. And actually, for one of the my most used queries - "What is the weather today?" -- I dont even use it o…