Super Bowl Predictions: How EA Uses Madden to Guess the Final Score

Electronic Arts is using artificial intelligence and real-life data to predict that the New York Giants will defeat the New England Patriots by a field goal on Sunday.
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Year of the Talking Phone and a Cloud That Got Hot

Important new products and services—including Ultrabooks, cloud computing and Android devices—raised questions and anticipation for the year ahead.
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Sell Me an iPhone, Siri

Siri is proving to be quite the driver of iPhone 4S sales.
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Apple’s Siri: Game-Changer, Not Gimmick

Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?
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Steve Jobs: We’re Not Getting Into Search, and We’re Not Booting Google From the iPhone

Will Apple’s rivalry with Google lead to the search company disappearing from iPhones and iPads? Nope, says CEO Steve Jobs, though asked if he’ll feature a rival search offering–say from Microsoft–he demurs. One search engine Apple won’t be featuring, Jobs says, is its own. That’s because the company is not getting into search, despite speculation that it would: “It’s not something we know about. It’s not something we care deeply about,” he says at the D8 conference.
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D7 Video Highlights: CEO Dag Kittlaus of Siri

Siri is an alternative to search that converses with the user, processing requests, answering questions and learning from each interaction like a cross between semantic search and artificial intelligence. CEO Dag Kittlaus demonstrates the app to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher on Day 3 of D7. Kara’s verdict? “I like.”

D7 Tech Demo: Siri

Many would-be augurs have been trying to pinpoint the moment the artificial intelligence overlord known as Skynet gets its start: Some may one day point to the launch of Siri. Siri is a virtual personal assistant, for your iPhone or computer, with a pedigree: It originated at the Stanford Research Institute and was spun out as an AI project financed by DARPA. Now, as an alternative to search, Siri is supposed to carry out tasks like finding your next outgoing flight or ordering a pizza by crawling the Web and conversing with the user, processing requests, responding and learning from the interaction. It will do this via a combination of technologies, including speech recognition, natural language processing and semantic Web search.
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