Siri verfolgt einen sehr spannenden Ansatz – es will ein persönlicher Assistent für den Alltag sein, der uns ermöglicht, kontextbasiert Probleme zu lösen. Also keine klassische Suchmaschine, sondern eher eine “do engine”:
Siri is a Virtual Personal Assistant – a new way to interact with the Internet on your mobile phone. Like a real assistant, Siri helps you get things done.
What makes Siri unique is that it understands natural language, accomplishes tasks and adapts to user’s individual preferences over time. Siri leverages many services and technologies to accomplish the task requested.
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Siri was born out of SRI’s CALO Project, the largest Artificial Intelligence project in U.S. history. (…) Made possible by a $150 million DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) investment, the CALO Project included 25 research organizations and institutions and spanned 5 years.
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In einem Interview mit Robert Scoble erklären Siri-Vertreter den Ansatz noch wesentlich genauer (Interviewdauer 22 min.):
Why is it so different? Because on the back end they’ve stitched together a sizeable group of APIs from services like Opentable to Flightstats. With more coming soon.
