By Tom Gruber:
We are beginning to see a new interaction paradigm for the web: the Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA). A VPA is task focused: it helps you get things done. You interact with it in natural language, in a conversation. It gets to know you, acts on your behalf, and gets better with time. The VPA paradigm builds on the information and services of the web, with new technical challenges of semantic intent understanding, context awareness, service delegation, and mass personalization.
Siri is a virtual personal assistant for the mobile Internet. Although just in its infancy, Siri can help with some common tasks that human assistants do, such as booking a restaurant, getting tickets to a show, and inviting a friend. We will describe the technology underlying Siri and how it fits in the larger ecosystem of services and data providers. And we will offer a vision of where assistants like Siri are going.
More info on: http://siri.com/
en in deze vimeo: (demo vanaf 8:24min)
KEYNOTE: The Game Changer: Siri, a Virtual Personal Assistant from Semantic Universe on Vimeo.
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1 Anouschka Scholten // Dec 2, 2009 at 12:35 am
Allthough a bit long, this is a seriousely great video! I didn’t believe in virtual assistants at all thinking about the current ones, but this really is like looking into the next evolution off new media. Something like web 5.0 at least.
I really like the model presented at 23:40 minutes: “Service Delegation: The Mother of all Mash-Ups.”
Great post Edwin!
And what a nice new marketing phrase: the other end off the long tail, the big fat head!;-))
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