{"id":691647,"date":"2010-03-15T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2010-03-15T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:52:08","slug":"ai-is-big-news-at-sxsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/691647","title":{"rendered":"AI is big news at SXSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not as big as web 2.0\/social media, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/computing\/24766\/?nlid=2816\" >big enough to get some attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chris Valentine, the event&#8217;s producer, says that social Web businesses are still king&#8211;200 companies applied to compete, and there were twice as many in the social media category as in any other. But he&#8217;s starting to see a shift in the technology behind the companies involved in the event. &#8220;We knew we were going in the direction of artificial intelligence,&#8221; Valentine says, and this year there are a number of startups harnessing technology from the field&#8211;especially natural language processing and computer vision.<\/p>\n<p>A prime example is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/siri.com\/\" >Siri<\/a>, a startup that launched this February. The company was spun out of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sri.com\/\" >SRI International<\/a>, a research organization based in Menlo Park, CA, commercializing technology developed as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/caloproject.sri.com\/about\/\" >CALO<\/a> artificial intelligence project. The company offers a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/editors\/24776\/?a=f\" >virtual personal assistant<\/a> with impressive voice recognition, learning capabilities, and the capacity to interact with many different apps. Its founders describe Siri as &#8220;the mother of all mashups with a big brain in the front.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7070\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as big as web 2.0\/social media, but big enough to get some attention. From the link: Chris Valentine, the event&#8217;s producer, says that social Web businesses are still king&#8211;200 companies applied to compete, and there were twice as many in the social media category as in any other. But he&#8217;s starting to see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TVB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}