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Comment by shriphani | Hacker News Reader

" most sophisticated piece of AI to ever to see the light of the consumer market"

Huh ? So no other consumer-facing product's AI can match a smart STT? Google Search, Kinect, handwriting recognition.. nothing ?

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Just watch this video[1] of Siri asking for the user to choose Home or Work and then after the user, who has a heavily accented English, says "work" twice it offers up "walk" and "wall". There are only two possible answers, both his replies start with a "w", the first ends with a "k", and this "most sophisticate piece of AI to ever see the light of the consumer market" can't figure out he probably means work?

Edit: I work with, and know personally, a lot of geeks, hackers and researchers. I don't know anyone who uses Quora or thinks it's the key to anything.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiU8GPlsZqE

"I work with, and know personally, a lot of geeks, hackers and researchers. I don't know anyone who uses Quora or thinks it's the key to anything."

What about Stack Overflow?

I know it's not popular on Hacker News, but actually AI research has little to do with Lisp/the language of the moment or the Q&A website of the moment. It's to do with algorithms and core datasets. Watson being one example that's not just based on shuffling around email and setting alarms on your phone.[1] Andrew Ng's work at Stanford is another example of something that's feeding into really changing the world, not the HN stereotype of two ivy grads doing a ruby on rails app which gets an edge in a market dominated by a few lumbering megacorporations. Not that both aren't important, but there is a heavy bias on HN toward the latter, and new languages, rather than core research and algorithms.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)

He was sounding "walk" every time. Which still proves Siri has an excellent voice recog. And as long as that's true the rest can be changed by a product manager's instruction, when necessary.

Siri is exactly what the average person imagines when they hear "Artificial Intelligence". I suppose that gives it a big edge.

But yeah, the guy is a bit too enthusiastic.

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