Automated Assistant

What is Completing Human to Computer Dialogs? We often see search engines interact with humans by answering queries that are input via keyboard or vocal input. Google is developing the ability to engage in, and share information by engaging in conversations with human beings. We see this in how Google interacts with humans using speaker … Read more

A History of User Programmable Automated Assistant Patents Google was granted a patent this week specifically about user-programmable automated assistants. It’s one of a number of patents about how Google is building that functionality into devices it is creating. There are a few more that have recently been granted which I haven’t written about yet. … Read more

Why Add Unsolicited Content in A Human to Computer Dialog? Humans may engage in human-to-computer dialogs with “automated assistants.” For example, humans may provide commands and requests using spoken natural language input (i.e. utterances) which may in some cases be converted into text and then processed, and by providing textual (e.g., typed) natural language input. … Read more

Context Aware Human to Computer Dialog Searchers can increasingly interact with computers using natural language in “human-to-computer dialog.” I previously wrote about how a computer may respond to a searcher with Natural Language query Responses, and how that might require the computer to understand things like grammar rules and some of the other quirks of … Read more