Neuromancing the Cloud: How Siri Could Lead to Real Artificial Intelligence

October 17, 2011Erik Kain

Outside of its remarkable sales, the real star of the iPhone 4S show has been Siri, Apple’s new voice recognition software. The intuitive voice recognition software is the closest to A.I. we’ve seen on a smartphone to date. Over the weekend I noted that Siri has some resemblance to the IBM supercomputer, Watson, and speculated […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.