Is anyone working on an open source version of Siri?
The real strength of Siri lies in its middleware infrastructure, that ties together more than 35 APIs. I’ve got a wealth of resources listed under my Meta-Guide.com project website. And, I’ve put together a comprehensive survey of “Artificial Intelligence Middleware” [1], as well as a webpage listing relevant “Application Programming Interfaces” [2].
In fact, Siri is based on a government sponsored (SRI) project called PAL (Personalized Assistant that Learns), and *some* of the PAL Framework [3] components are open source. (Actually, CALO, the Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes, was originally developed as part of the PAL project.)
[1] http://www.meta-guide.com/home/artificial-intelligence-middleware
[2] http://www.meta-guide.com/application-programming-interfaces
[3] http://www.meta-guide.com/home/bibliography/google-scholar/pal-framework