Talking to Machines

Charting technology’s new directions: A conversation with MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson | McKinsey & Company: "I think we’re finally getting at that seminal moment in human history when we can talk to our machines and our machines will understand us in regular, natural language. It’s a little clunky if you use Siri or some of the automated voice-response systems. At first, you’re kind of amazed by a few things you can do, but you quickly run into the boundaries and it can be a little frustrating. But it’s advancing very, very rapidly. . . the big breakthrough has been linking it to big data. You now have hundreds of millions of people using that, talking to it and correcting it. It creates a closed-loop learning system where these voice systems (not just Siri but Google and the others) are learning much more rapidly than they could in the past. And just by crunching large amounts of data, they’re able to improve language understanding in a way that we couldn’t when we were sort of trying to hand code the semantics and syntax of language in the first era of language recognition." (read more at link above)


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