That's because the telephone speech recognition systems clearly do
*not* do it better than a human being could!
On 9/5/07, marijane white <mkwhite4_at_uiuc.edu> wrote:
> I agree with this; the goal posts do shift. One of the great ironies of
> AI is that once a computer can do something that only humans could do, we
> no longer think of it as artificial intelligence. For example, everyone
> on this list who has ever interacted with a phone navigation system that
> uses voice recognition (likely most of us, I would guess) has used a
> system that incorporates AI technology. But it is rare for us to think of
> them as AI, in my experience.
>
> Marijane White
> Masters Candidate
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
> Graduate School of Library and Information Science
>
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