Meet Siri's Little Brother, Trapit 183
waderoush writes "Virtually overnight, Siri, the personal assistant technology in Apple's new iPhone 4S, has brought state-of-the-art AI to the consumer mainstream. Well, it turns out there's more where that came from. Trapit, a second spinoff of SRI International's groundbreaking CALO project (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes), is preparing for a public beta launch this fall. The Web-based news aggregator lets users set up persistent 'traps' or filters on specific topics. Over time, the traps learn to include more articles that match users' interests and exclude those that don't. Philosophically, it's the exact opposite of social-curation news apps like Flipboard or Pulse, since it uses adaptive learning and sense-making technologies to learn what users like, not what their friends like. 'Just as Siri is revolutionizing the human-computer interaction on the mobile device, Trapit will revolutionize Web search as we know it today,' the company asserts."
Re:wonder how long (Score:2, Informative)
Dude, it's time to give up the meth. I fear it's your only hope if you want to be effective & coherent in your future trolling endeavors.
Just look at your teeth in the mirror and you will know in your heart I'm right.
Re:It's a trap! (Score:3, Informative)
From what I've read of "Iris", it's impressive, but it ain't Siri. The article I read showed that Iris was very good at parsing natural language questions and finding the answers on the internet, even silly questions like "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?". That's great, but Siri goes beyond that. It can respond to statements, not just questions. It learns how you speak. It gets better the more you use it.
Now, I admit: I have not done in-depth research on Iris. Maybe Iris does incorporate adaptive learning. But from what I read, it looked like it was just a question parser.
But whatever. I'm not going to change any minds at this site. Slashdot suffers from "Apple derangement syndrome". I mean, for cripe's sake, this article isn't even about Siri, but everyone has such a frothing hate-on for Apple that the fact that something kind was said about Siri in the summary sent the readers into hysterics.
Slashdot is like an alternate universe. Everyone bends over so far backwards to avoid giving Apple any credit that they're breaking their collective back. I'd just like to ask one question: If everything Apple does is so unimpressive, so obvious... then why does Apple always get there first?
Posted anonymously, because as the GP's fate shows, defending Apple on this site is great way to lose karma.