Siri: Make Artificial Intelligence Your Slave

February 5th, 2010 admin

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” said Arthur C. Clarke. And that’s what Siri , a new virtual personal assistant that’s finally going live in the App Store after some sneak peeks last year, is going for. At the least it will be an excellent party trick. The Siri app (only recommended for the iPhone 3GS, as it’s rather intensive) connects your natural speech queries to web services APIs to complete complex planning tasks. It understands things like where you are, what accounts you have on various services and the context of the last question you asked. So you can do things like make a restaurant reservation (using OpenTable) …


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  1. June 2nd, 2010 at 06:06
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    Good work, keep us posting, you are good writer.

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