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"And how does sdfgfyiykyd make you feel?" |
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Somewhere I wrote this idea a few years ago and even tried
to raise money for developing it... |
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Never had one of these phones so I may have this wrong (& I
may just not understand the idea of course) but doesn't Siri
already do this? |
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They might have exaggerated what Siri does for comedy
value.. but I'm sure I remember exchanges like that
in the Big Bang with Koothrappali when he got a new
phone with Siri. |
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You: "Siri where can I buy flowers at four in the morning" |
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Siri: "What type of flowers would you like" |
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That sort of thing right? |
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Found one [link]. Was that what you meant? |
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Wolfram|Alpha has a similar feature: if you type in
something ambiguous, it gives you a popup menu between
the search box and the results where you can choose other
interpretations of each ambiguous term in your query. |
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ELIZA has been asking questions since 1966, though not for
this purpose (or any meaningful purpose). |
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//ELIZA has been asking questions since 1966// |
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Yes but Eliza doesn't really use algorithms to construct
questions it just uses a data base with look up tables &
defaults to something like "I didn't understand that can you
rephrase it" when it hits anything it's developers didn't
anticipate. |
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Come to think of it that might be all Siri does too. |
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Yup, thinking about it (now), that's probably all Siri is, just
a standard old school chat bot with voice recognition & a
web search call up function bolted on that defaults to
asking if you want a web search for anything the developers
didn't anticipate. |
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Hmm.. on another note, the more I reread this idea the less
sure I am I know what the idea is, so I
think I'll just ignore this one from now on. |
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I need this. It would save me time. |
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//What would it take for Wikipedia to ask a question for
disambiguation? //
Doesn’t Wikipedia do that now? Like if I were to type in
“Chevys” it would ask me to click on one of two choices;
the car or the restaurant. |
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^ What about Chase? I tell ya that guy doesn't get near the respect he deserves. |
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"Look kids Big Ben, Parliament." |
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I suppose a HTML disambiguation page is a type of question but I am thinking more like a simplified Watson. The engine is trying to calculate the specific knowledge wanted and display it. |
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If the computing system, with multiple query answers, can design the question well enough it should give a definite indication of information wanted. And if it is really clever it even might increase the intelligence of the quester. |
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Then again, if the searcher knows the engine then they will know the correct grammar and wording. |
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