a Berkeley, California-based startup that develops
conversational AI – systems that help bots speak to
voice assistant.
That’s a big win for Microsoft, because Semantic
Machines’ team includes some serious talent in this
space: its members have worked on the core systems
that powered Google Now; its CTO is the former Chief
Speech Scientist for Siri at Apple, while others came on
board from speech recognition heavyweight Nuance
The move comes at a time when conversational AI’s
relevance is steadily growing: chatbots, smart speakers,
and intelligent mobile assistants all stand to benefit from
smarts that could enable them to do more than just execute
one-off commands from users.
could get better at asking and answering follow-up questions,
remembering information you’ve shared earlier, building
context by rifling through your profile, and carrying out several
functions in sequence after receiving detailed instructions from
a human.
Perhaps the best (and eeriest) example of what conversational
lets the company’s Assistant make a phone call on your behalf
to do things like a book a restaurant table or schedule a salon
appointment, by speaking with a human and practically deceiving
them into believing they’re talking to a person on the other end.
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