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Re: Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs

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Re: Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs

Henrik — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:09:49 -0000

wooooooooow :-)

Re: Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs

Mike Abundo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:27:57 -0000

The Metal Gear theme just started playing in my head.

Re: Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs

Chris Morrison — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:38:30 -0000

Yep, there are several presentations and slideshows floating around. I was joking about any sinister aspect.

Re: Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs

NitinK — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:33:36 -0000

The folks from SRI presented some slides about CALO - the "cognitive assistant" - at an SD Forum event last year on the Semantic Web (however, CALO was the only one presented without a demo). It sounds more shadowy and sinister than it probably is; the main idea is that this software is constantly watching what you do, in an effort to learn the context and try to anticipate the semantics of the content it sees.

I've blogged about it here:
http://blog.softwareabstrac...