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Intelligent, chatty machines

Wed, 09/19/2007 - 04:52 - NLN

A new company called Cognitive Code has built software that it believes will let everyday gadgets talk with humans.
At the Techcrunch40 conference in San Francisco on Monday, the startup unveiled a developer's studio with a set of algorithms that convert strings of words into concepts and formulate a wordy response. The developer's studio could let businesses, such as cell-phone manufacturers and toy makers, use the technology to add conversational abilities to a product.

Instead of composing an e-mail on a PDA, says Leslie Spring, the company's chief technology officer, imagine instructing a handheld to "send an e-mail to Tom and tell him 'I'll be there in 10 minutes.'" Spring says that such a feature could be possible with the algorithms -- based on 15 patents -- that Cognitive Code has developed.

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syntactical magic

On September 19th, 2007 terren says:

Obviously this is just more clever syntactical processing. I'm not saying it has no use, but the annoying thing is how many people will confuse this with actual intelligence.