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comment by kleinbl00

    Mr Nadella predicted that speech would become as important as mice and keyboards as a way to deal with computers. “Human language is the new UI [user interface] layer,” he said. “Bots are the new apps. Digital assistants are like . . . the new browsers, and intelligence is infused into all your interactions.”

My guess? They think Amazon is on the right path with the Echo and expect to interject themselves as a SAAS B2B layer between "hot young company" and "eager millennial consumer". It's also possible that they finally got around to watching those commercials of Katy Perry talking to Siri back before we realized that Siri is a useless bitch.





alpha0  ·  2919 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bill Gates was stressing new human-machine interfaces long before Echo. There is youtube video out there with him and Steve Jobs and this comes up in context of questions regarding "future directions".

kleinbl00  ·  2919 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No doubt. But that was a while ago. And I think we can both agree that there wasn't that much planning into the punchline that is Tay.

alpha0  ·  2919 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sure, why not.