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by luke_s 3559 days ago
Actually, I'm not so sure its a acquihire. Google has very recently announced a bunch of cloud machine learning products:

https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/

* Cloud Vision API - Upload an image, and it will tell you what is in it

* Cloud Speech API - Upload a wav and it will transcribe it

* Natural Language API - Parse sentences, extracts entities, sentiment and syntax

* Cloud Translate API - Translate from one language to another.

Api.ai would make a great bullet point to add to the end of that list!
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visarga 3559 days ago
From what I know, Google's NLP service does not include intent extraction. Intent extraction is essential for voice command interfaces, such as those in Siri and Google Now. But I don't see why they would need to buy a startup for that, when they can do it themselves even better.
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mack73 3559 days ago
What about the possibility of Google being scared of being outrun or innovated out of its position in the AI race? Google does not have a monopoly on smart people.
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tehwebguy 3559 days ago
"Remind me ______ in two hours"

One day Siri kept hearing that as "into hours" and I almost lost it.

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