How does Datasift compare to Yahoo! Pipes? I’ve just begun Alpha testing DataSift, and its not yet clear to me what I can do with DataSift that I’m not already doing with…
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What’s missing in the online travel space?
What’s missing in the online travel space? The holy grail of travel technology… the artificially intelligent, robotic travel agent, as smart or smarter than the average professional travel agent today. Smartphone apps…
What are the best personal assistant apps on the iPhone?
What are the best personal assistant apps on the iPhone? Siri – The Personal Assistant on your Phone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjpVAB06O4 Monica iPhone Application Full Demo – Your Virtual Assistant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEaWV73B_zQ Meet Alfred, your personal…
Can I get in legal trouble for making a Twitter bot that mocks a politician?
Can I get in legal trouble for making a Twitter bot that mocks a politician? In these new videos, Philadelphia lawyer Frank Taney http://twitter.com/scarylawyer of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney discusses legal and…
Which professors are doing cutting edge work on Chinese natural language processing?
Which professors are doing cutting edge work on Chinese natural language processing? I can add three clues to this thread. Firstly, I recently came across the 2009 book, “Introduction to Chinese Natural…
How does Wolfram|Alpha convert a natural language input query to internal formula format?
How does Wolfram|Alpha convert a natural language input query to internal formula format? Stephen Wolfram wrote a great blog post in January 2011 comparing IBM Watson with Wolfram|Alpha side by side, entitled…
Is there chat bots software?
Is there chat bots software? There is a Quora topic for this at http://www.quora.com/Conversational-Agents-Chatbots Wikipedia is now referring to this as an “Automated online assistant” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_online_assistant The software may be referred to…
Is there any natural language processing (NLP) technique that can convert broken English into fluent native-speaker English?
Is there any natural language processing (NLP) technique that can convert broken English into fluent native-speaker English? I just ran across this 2010 book: Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners http://books.google.com/books?id=dU6M1t2vauwC…
Is it theoretically impossible for anyone to gain immortality through living in a machine?
Is it theoretically impossible for anyone to gain immortality through living in a machine? “Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.” David L Parnas These…
Could game-based welfare be an answer to machine induced high unemployment?
Could game-based welfare be an answer to machine induced high unemployment? This is an interesting concept; though, I’ve got a slightly different slant on it. There are two basic kinds of “artificial…