> Buzz Lightyear walks into a bar called the "Uncanny Valley" and asks the bartender for a vodka soda. The bartender gives him a vasectomy. Voice recognition is important!

To me this seemed like the main conclusion of the post.

And I agree. Voice recognition seems like an AI-complete problem. I think conversations will always be awkward and frustrating until Siri can construct a mental model of my habits, my particular turns of phrases and accent, what I'm up to right now, what I think is important, who else is in the room, etc. etc. I don't think you can (only) throw deep learning at the problem and expect anything but superficial responses. (Maybe if you had one neural net per user?)

And the article is about how voice recognition is just in its infancy.