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"10 Questions for Siri\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe classic question\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaptain Kirk destroyed a computer with this question. Siri shrugs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThanks to Josh at \"This is my...\" blog for this one.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is the correct answer, sort of.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLet's start a band!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe kept saying my name....\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSiri can't answer the probing question posed by noted intellectual Jessica Simpson.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe has her limits, but is still helpful.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFill in the rest for yourself. And no, she won't make you a \"sammich.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThanks, Siri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the beginning of the week, Dag Kittlaus wrote a post for Mashable about the birth of the virtual assistant. Today, Dag's company, Siri, is releasing its iPhone app, Siri Assistant. Siri helps people get things done by combining intelligent voice recognition with hooks into tons of different web services, making it easy for people to use their mobile devices to get things done.When I talked to Dag a few weeks ago, he gave me a demo of what Siri Assistant is and what it does. The concept is pretty powerful: Talk to your phone and let it find and make plans for you. So instead of going directly to a website and doing a traditional search for movie tickets at a certain time, I can just say, \"Get me movie tickets for Shutter *Island around 9 pm\" and options for theaters near me (or theaters that I have previously indicated are my favorites) will show up and I can then purchase tickets directly from my phone.\nCheck out this screencast to see more of what Siri Assistant can do:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSiri was born from SRI's CALO Project. The CALO Project (or Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) is the largest Artificial Intelligence project in U.S. History. DARPA invested $150 million into CALO over the course of five years. What was learned from CALO has been implemented into Siri.\nUsing natural language understanding (think the Dragon Search and Dragon Dictation apps for the iPhone) to connect with existing services and APIs and traditional search components, Siri can become very adept at helping people get things done.\nSiri has more than 30 different partners whose APIs the app can plug into when answering a request. These include services like OpenTable, MovieTickets.com, Eventful, StubHub, Taxi Magic, Rotten Tomatos, Bing, Google Maps and Yelp. This list of partners will continue to expand over time.\nWhat I was particularly impressed with is that if you have existing accounts with these services, you can log in to them and have Siri remember those credentials \u2014 so you can get your OpenTable points or use your MovieWatcher card. Siri will also offer up results from Bing if it can't find something with one of its partners, so you aren't just limited to the services that are integrated at the API level with Siri.\nWhen I think about the best use cases for something like Siri, I think about when unexpected things come up \u2014 say you need to book a flight to a different city and also get a hotel room and taxi \u2014 and time is of the essence. It's much easier and faster to say what you need than to have to go through the manual search mechanisms.\nSiri gets better the more you use it, can adapt to the places you frequent, and can use technologies like geolocation to find better results. You can correct it with text input if the voice recognition isn't right and also use traditional text input to get results.\nSiri Assistant is free and available right now in the App Store. It's an amazing first glimpse of a Jetsonian type of future. Now all I need is my jetpack and my robotic maid!\nWhat do you think about the advancements in voice recognition and how they are changing how we can get things done? Let us know!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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