Siri is Apple's Answer to the Future and Google

Siri is Apple's Answer to the Future and Google(juliangutman.com)

4 points by juliangutman 14 years ago | 4 comments

asto 14 years ago |

Apple's answer to the future and GOOGLE? Doesn't Google have a really good natural language processor already?

juliangutman 14 years ago | |

It's more of a strategic answer than a technological one. Per usual, Apple is taking a different user experience approach to the problem. It would be difficult for Google to mimic as their main monetization driver (Adwords) depends on their current model of search.

As far as their NLP technologies, I don't know enough about what they respectively have under the hood. I will say that Siri's ability to understand a variety of human phrases and contexts was more impressive than anything I've publicly seen from Google.

cheald 14 years ago | | |

It's worth noting that when you demo a product, you get to pick phrases that you know the program will respond favorably to. While I have no doubt that Siri is impressive, it's a little premature to judge its NLP capabilities based on a marketing demo.