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The article conveys almost no information. Why speech synthesis, NLP and so on are called AI? What's special with Raspberry Pi, isn't it a regular general-purpose computer, just of small size? Will it be run locally or on Google servers? Why BBC has articles of so poor quality?

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The Pi has exposed IO pins so you can use it to control just about anything that uses electricity.

There are two basic groups of users. People looking for a cheap small computer to use for education, gaming, etc. And those who use the Pi as a controller for other projects.

I'm using one as the controller for an open source coffee maker called Mugsy as well as another start up in the music education space.

Have the link to Mugsy? Sounds pretty cool.

Im currently cleaning up the code, models and parts list for public release. Mailing list subscription is on heymugsy.com. Email is on my profile if you have specific questions.

While speech synthesis is okay, NLP is a problem largely unsolved. We need to improve reasoning, attention and memory, and also to ground concepts in perceptual data.

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