Military-grade artificial intelligence now on the iPhone

March 17, 2010  |  Length: 00:02:42

Funded by DARPA and SRI International, computer scientists Adam Cheyer, Dag Kittlaus and Tom Gruber are working to bring advanced artificial intelligence to mobile devices. Their invention is Siri, a personal, intelligent assistant on the iPhone that allows users to make verbal requests that Siri will process and then act upon, like scheduling appointments, buying movie tickets, and making dinner reservations.

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Holy V2T! great work ~ enjoyed the video ..
Posted by OSXman
18th Mar 2010
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Awesome!!!
Posted by roland.haynes@...
22nd Mar 2010
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Can I use it to make doctors appointments?
Posted by Robbin6954
23rd Mar 2010
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Welcome to skynet or is that Inet. wink.... ;(
Posted by Robjh@...
26th Mar 2010
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I respect the work and the dedication to do this, but just think, 5 years and maybe millions of dollars, the larget AI project in US history, just to make it easier for me to choose a restaurant and a movie for me and my wife, which I can do anyway, and she doesn't even get a chance to give her own opinion! Am I missing something here? This is really devilish. But we'll have to get used to it. Virtual reality helmets hooked to our cell phones are just around the corner, too.
Posted by DonToto
7th Apr 2010
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very cool, because of this i will now buy an iphone
Posted by nowheelspin
10th Apr 2010
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What a letdown. In the interview, he states "...for the iPhone and other Smartphones", but when I go to their website, I find that they have sold out completely to Apple, so the chance of ever getting to use this fantastic technology on my Android (or any MS or Palm or other Smartphone) is next to nil.

What a waste. What a sellout!
Posted by Edouin
13th Jul 2010
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This sounds really cool in theory, but I question how effective it is in application. I would fear the Siri misreading me and scheduling something I didn't want to do. I guess I'll just have to learn to speak very clearly. This technology is the definition of interactive intelligence.
Posted by techgirl10
25th Feb 2011
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This is pretty cool, I like that the system can learn from your previous choices, but it also seems somewhat lazy. Also, I am wary of the voice detection- the one on my driod is not very accurate and I could see myself getting frustrated. Moreover, imagine how bad a "butt dial" could go with Siri ie.) you accidentally buy 15 movie tickets--then you will be searching for debt relief solutions? lol.
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2nd Mar 2011
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7th Apr 2011
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This seems like a risky weather modification possibility...Creating even a
This seems like a risky weather modification possibility...Creating even a small change in the natural convection of the earths temperature via oceans currents drastically affects life over the whole planet..
I would think a filter half way between the earth and sun could be controlled in the summer period to tweak power balancethe heat absorption.. a disk rotating at a rate of 1 cycle every two years, with a controlled variable diameter to increase or lessen the heating effect..
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Updated - 30th Apr 2011
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really devilish
Am I missing something here? This is really devilish. But we'll have to get used to it. Virtual reality helmets hooked to our cell phones are just around the corner, kral oyun
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10th Oct 2011
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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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