Here's my example. Siri: Intruders detected on the tenth floor.
Me: Okay Siri, seal off decks six through twelve. Open the airlocks. Number one! Arrange a security detatchment, let's light a fire under their asses! Siri: Aye captain. Retracting cooling rods from primary and secondary reactors. Fire should commence within minutes. Me: No no no no! Put the cooling rods back into the reactors, Siri! What the [explitive deleted] were you thinking?? Siri: Got it. I've made an appointment with your dentist for Monday. Approximately three minutes fourteen seconds to meltdown in primary and secondary reactors. Your dentist says hello, by the way. (etcetera) The computer is going to keep getting smaller. How do you program a phone? It would be nice to be able to just talk to it, but it needs to be able -- in a programming context -- to eliminate ambiguity by asking me questions about what I meant. Or *something.* It's tragic that Siri can't tell me what you get when you multiply six by nine. I think it's been crippled, based on stuff Woz has said about what Apple did when they bought it up. So there are some really interesting angles without well understood solutions wrt NLP (and of course the group is welcomed to slap me in the face with my ignorance because I know there's stuff I don't know.) The best thing I've found to a natural language programming system is Inform 7 which leaves things to be desired. At least it is unambiguous, but I think that in natural language, what we need are ways to cope with disambiguation. Anyone want to point me at cool stuff to read? :D -- Casey Ransberger _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
