Siri, really smart virtual personal assistant

the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced last year CALO program - one for the military to simplify some of the complicated business matters, and a learning organization, as well as cognitive digital assistant - its The civilian version of the software derived from Siri virtual personal assistant, and finally boarded at the recent Apple's App Store (versions for other platforms, like blackberry version, should be introduced in the near future …)?

Siri can do, it sounds very general, users can voice, text input methods to search for restaurants, movie theaters and other living conditions, but also can watch the relevant comments, and even direct reservations, bookings; another of its suitability for the location (location based) services, the capacity is quite tough, can be based on the user's home address or the default location to judge, filter the search results.

However, its greatest feature, it is human-computer interaction, not only has a very lively dialogue interface for users to ask their given answers, you will not be irrelevant answers, and sometimes even more people to a kind of Heart consonance surprise, for example, tell the user if the input includes a drunk , ?home? these words (or even do not need to comply with the syntax, quite user-friendly …), Siri will be judged as drinking drunk want to go home, and automatically recommends whether or not to help call a taxi; On the contrary, Xiaobian to include drink sentences to query, it is very attentive lists the location (Xiaobian borrowed a friend's rice country address) in the vicinity bar.

but the only pity is that the software is currently only available in English, additional information is limited to the United States, but the overall concept of the software can be said to be quite interesting, but also for free! Members are interested in a friend, you can watch the introduction video after the jump, if you are a mobile phone software, map-related services funded developers who may be able to get some inspiration Not necessarily.

Atlas: Siri for iPhone