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I was more impressed by this project's backbone service Thinkgpedia, a common natural language interface to different web services and internet-connected hardware. I'll definitely find use for it in future!

I started using Almond application for Gnome. It delivers on many fronts, but still lacks polish.

Some typed prompts would never get an answer. Some prompts got misinterpreted, for example "tell me a dad joke each day at 9 am" would get scheduled at 12 am. The wake word is followed by audio ping, but there should also be a visual clue.

Still, very cool technology. My favorite skill is "Miscellaneous Interfaces" with queries for random number, opening URL, throwing a coin...

I'll try to stick with this for a week, to automate some OS actions and my git work flow.

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- No way to clear history, it's getting huge now and mostly consists of "Sorry, I don't understand" answers - When going to My Skills and back to chat, it scrolls to beginning which is frustrating. - Scheduled actions never actually happen. - In-app "training" doesn't work, returns "Sorry, I did not understand that. Use ‘help’ to learn what I can do for you." - Online training _could_ work if one could learn their ThingTalk language. My usecase was simple - teach it that "throw dice" is same as random number from 1 to 6, but I could not conjure precise ThingTalk spell. - Screenshot, locking PC and other OS actions didn't work on XFCE. Not Almond's fault, but less usable for me.