It seemed like a natural enough request to Alderman Thomas Murphy, who represents Chicago's 18th Ward on the city's Southwest Side.
Several important ecological processes, e.g., ebullition of methane and its natural microergodicity request better designs for observations in order to decrease variability in parameter estimation.
One unique thing about Penny is that the app only lets you send pre-populated messages, not natural language requests.
Watson is designed to "understand" natural language requests and then access vast quantities of unstructured data to find the best answers to questions.
LG's HomeChat appliances communicate with their users via Line, a popular chat app in Asia, and are designed to understand natural language requests.
"The Synqq platform understands such natural language requests as 'Add a note,' 'Share a note,' 'Create a meeting,' or 'When was my last meeting with Bob?,'" Sunkara explained.
StatMuse, a startup out of San Francisco that currently lets you search for basketball facts and statistics through ordinary "natural" language requests, has picked up a $10 million round of funding to expand to new sports and services around the basic stats.
And once these were all tied together, Zuckerberg also had to build a way to translate natural language requests made as though you were talking too another person into commands that could operate all of the above.
While we originally touted this as one of Penny's downsides, the recent explosion of chat-based bots (most of which are terrible at parsing a user's natural language requests) now helps explain why pre-populated messages may actually be beneficial to the user.
SRI International's software venture, called Siri, is more ambitious, in that it allows users to speak or write natural-language requests into the device ("Find me a place to eat dinner tonight with Karen, reserve a table and put it on our calendars")., which will complete the task independently and inform you when it is done.
