If you got yourself the new iPhone then you fell in love with Siri because she's helping
you do stuff like make phone calls. You can joke around with her. You're flirting with
her, and she's pretty helpful. Siri is unique and the reason for this is that Siri isn't
just voice recognition. Siri can actually understand language. She knows how language
is modeled and she can apply logic and this makes her feel far more intelligent and human
than anything else. Now we know from things like ATMs that when machines are as reliable
as humans we would rather use machines. People are using Siri way more than Apple anticipated
and Siri is learning every day which is making her smarter and smarter. So if Apple opened
Siri to third party developers there is going to be a flood of new voice enabled applications.
Siri will help you buy things. Make your travel plans. Make phone calls for you. She'll learn
your preferences. Siri is really going to become a personal assistant, the beginning
of actual artificial intelligence. And this is a big deal. Eric Schmidt from Google claimed
to the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy the biggest threat to Google is Siri
because one day you might stop using Google completely and ask her instead.
So keep an eye on Siri. She's going to turn some heads.