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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Why Can't SIRI talk to Watson?

Thoughtful GigaOm piece on AI.  I spent years doing enterprise AI and what we did only worked when it was focused.  We saw what IBM was doing at that time and it was impressive even then. The AI's of today are impressive, but are still not as smart as you may think.   Mimicking generalized intelligence is still tough.

"  ... As David Ferrucci, the guy at IBM behind Watson’s creation, explained during a conversation before the match, that as intuitive as the interactions with Siri or Watson appear to us, they are fundamentally task oriented. So the questions that Watson gets are in effect “translated” not just into the zeros and ones of digital signals but also to a series of words that are then broken down into related concepts ... "

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