Military-grade artificial intelligence now on the iPhone

Music Adam Cheyer: Remind me tomorrow morning to call Jim about tennis. My name is Adam Cheyer. I'm a researcher in artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions.

Music What I'm trying to do is make computers smarter and easier to use for people. I want them to be more natural, let you be able to speak to them, communicate what you want to do without having to say too much about how you need to get it done. DARPA came to SRI and asked them to work on a project called "CALO." CALO stands for "Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes. CALO is probably the largest artificial intelligence project in US history. So the idea was to build a human-like system that could learn. CALO is five-year project, did a lot of really great research. SRI is continuing to take the research in CALO and apply it in government and military applications, and I started a spin out with two cofounders, called SRI, where we're trying to take the best from CALO and bring it to consumers. Send a taxi to my house tomorrow morning. SRI is your virtual personal assistant in the cloud. You can access it today from iPhone and mobile devices, but the idea is you can ask SRI to do more and more things for you -- Call Jim about tennis. -- And SRI will actually understand you, work with you to help you automate all of the steps in order to get this done. Imagine you were gonna plan your weekend, and you wanted to do a dinner and a movie with your wife or girlfriend. So with SRI, you just say, "I want to have a dinner and a movie Saturday night." And from there it will dialog. It will say what kind of movie are you looking for? What kind of restaurant? You say, "Oh, just get me a table for two at 8:00 PM Saturday night at Cibibo phonetic. And SRI will understand you. It will interact with lots of different websites that help you get the job done in a very personalized, quick way.

Music I think what inspires me is what inspires a lot of people, this vision of having really an intelligent assistant, a computer who can actually understand something about you and really work with you to get jobs done, as opposed to you having to click on icons and links and do all of the work yourself.

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