Dylan’s Desk: Artificial intelligence’s new hope is … targeted marketing

November 13, 2012 2:00 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

For decades, "artificial intelligence" was a long-sought-after ideal in computing circles. Now it's finally starting to become real -- just not in the way anyone expected.

Will iOS 5 take advantage of Apple’s purchase of Siri virtual assistant?

July 23, 2011 12:11 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Apple bought some very cool “virtual assistant” technology  — Siri’s speech-to-text system — back in early 2010. This technology allowed users to ask for places to eat using normal spoken words and receive recommendations within a very short time.

But …