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Originally Posted by Jannis View Post
Absolutely true Estel, Voicy is nothing more than a small dumb "voice command monkey".

I, like all of us, would honestly LOVE to see Saera having true AI and beeing more than Siri, which -as you said- only pretends to be AI. To be honest, from my perspective this goal is far out of reach. The best AI system built so far is IBMs "Watson". It won the quiz show Jeopardy. When you compare the hardware of the N900 with Watsons hardware, with a total of 2880 POWER7 processor cores and 16 Terabytes of RAM, capable of processing 500 Gigabytes per second, you know what I mean. It's hardware is even by far bigger than IBMs super-computer "Deep Blue", the famous chess computer, the first one that beat a reigning chess world champion.

And even Watson is not true AI. It is 'just' a very big system with a huge database and driven by software massively parallel computing clever statistical algorithms.
I absolutely agree, and by no means I meant to discourage your work on Voicy. Furthermore, I see great benefits in joining forces, to allow feasible "switching" to (and merging with, when necessary), a "voice monkey", to make Saera more efficient in practice.

The thing I had in mind - and it seems to be consensus here - is to not make it *only* a "voice monkey", abandoning AI aspects all-together. Like you, I have no hopes for it to become "true-true" AI, in cybernetic sense All uses of "AI" here are to be understood as "semi AI".

Still, I think that expanding the AI (as "AI'ish' as we can get with hardware in question and software in reach) behind Saera, is what makes it very, very interesting project. Adding features of Voicy, can only make it better (if we're not going to abandon backend "AI" all-together" for sake of usefulness only).

Cheers,
/Estel
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