Microsoft still thinks "just add Halo" will make any product successful?
They don't seem to understand consumers at all nowadays.
How far away does gaf think we are from this technology being as compelling as a real conversation? I'd say 12 years.
do people that continuously say siri and google now are novelty not drive cars? i use siri daily.
It'd say it's five years behind fusion.
(I'm pretty serious about that - it's a technology that is always ten years from now, and probably will be for another fifty years.)
I live in London. I don't even know anyone who lives in this city and owns a car.
I've found Apple's voice recognition to be absolutely terrible - true story, I asked Siri a few weeks back to call my wife. The reply was "I'm sorry, I can't find flatulence in your phone book."
It'd say it's five years behind fusion.
(I'm pretty serious about that - it's a technology that is always ten years from now, and probably will be for another fifty years.)
If it's as good as Google Now, then I see no problem with this. I talk to my phone all the time because of how amazing Google's service is. This is the result I get from simply saying "San Francisco Giants."
"The Giants beat the Rockies 4-3. They are playing the Dodgers today at 7:10PM."
Fucking brilliant. All the relevant information I needed to know given to me instantly.
At the same time both Google and Microsoft have to stop treating the rest of the world like little servants and throw them a nugget too. There's no reason why they can't do the same with, say, Formula 1 results.
Wait, I thought America owned the whole world?
Somewhere, MS office paperclip is seething.
Understanding words -> understanding sentences -> understanding context
We are basically still at understanding words. Basic command inputs.
Context is easily one of the most difficult things to understand, and this is before we even start working on the other half of the conversation... Which not only requires ability to construct sentences, construct arguments and again... Ability to maintain context.
In reality, we'd have to be a step behind AI for proper conversation.
I beleive straight talk has both at&t and tmobile sims. I use a 620 on straight talk.I want a Windows Phone so bad now. I can't afford a data plan like Verizon's though. I use Straight Talk. Anyone know if a factory unlocked phone like a Lumia 920 would work with a Straight Talk sim card?
I would buy a Cortana phone.
The irony of creating a Siri (or Google Now, if you will) clone and calling it "revolutionary" is hopefully not lost on anyone.
And that's the thing, Microsoft's strategy for over a decade now is reactionary design. Look at what everyone else is doing and trying to reinvent the wheel. They have varied success, some stuff works, most of the stuffs falls flat because they don't offer anything special (even if it improves on what existst, it's never mindblowing systemselling stuff) and because they're always a year (or two) behind what the competition does.
How is that one supercomputer able to answer Jeopardy questions?
Watson's main innovation was not in the creation of a new algorithm for this operation but rather its ability to quickly execute thousands of proven language analysis algorithms simultaneously to find the correct answer.[12][27] The more algorithms that find the same answer independently the more likely Watson is to be correct.[12] Once Watson has a small number of potential solutions, it is able to check against its database to ascertain whether the solution makes sense.[12
Lol... wut?I just do not like Windows Phone. I say this as I have a Samsung Focus on my desk. It's just not the OS for me. The app selection is abysmal and the quality of the apps is even worse. My wife has a Nokia 710 and Nokia Drive is... not good at all. After loading WP7.8 the phones have become less responsive overall. Plus some of the design choices, especially font sizes, really do not seem optimal by any stretch of imagination.
So overall... having improved Siri functionality isn't going to make me consider saying on WP.
I hope so because Siri is pretty awful, can't recognize shit of what i'm saying."We are not shipping until we have something more revolutionary than evolutionary.”
What is this nonsense? Nokia Drive is the best navigator around.Nokia Drive is... not good at all.
My wife has a Nokia 710 and Nokia Drive is... not good at all.
It is pretty good, not as good as Waze though.What.
Drive is one of the best.
That's kinda been Microsoft's history. Word wasn't the first word processor. Excel wasn't the first spreadsheet. Windows wasn't the first graphical OS. IE wasn't the first internet browser.
The talent that Bill Gates has that Ballmer doesn't is that Gates knows how to come in late and still become market leader/monopoly. He was a tyrant the likes of which Ballmer is incapable of becoming. If Microsoft joined an industry, they joined it to rule it.
Hopefully coming to Xbox One at some point.I feel bad for Microsoft, because I bet they will make an awesome effort on this kind of thing, but no one will notice because no one has their phones.