Spilling the Beans
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I find Apple’s recent acquisition of Siri quite interesting, I already find myself conversing on a basic level with my iPhone when biking, phrases like “Call John Appleseed”, and “Play Album Dark Side of The Moon”, I can do a lot while still focusing on the traffic.
My iPhone mostly interprets my orders correctly, and responds by repeating my intended action, with Siri I believe Apple wishes to expand the idea of the conversing computer even further, and possibly open up the Voice Control features for 3rd party applications, confirming Apple’s commitment to producing accessible devices.
The iPhone is my first experience of a natural interaction with an AI, though it is not perfect, and very limited, I do not feel stupid giving my phone voice-commands, because most of the time the iPhone interprets my intentions correctly. Apple is creating what many tech-prophets have foreseen, a personal AI or “The Conversing Computer”, they are doing this while their competitors are still having a hard time making their touch-screens work properly, the hard truth is that no company is working harder on an iPhone killer than Apple, and if tide does not turn soon, Palm will not be their only victim.
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