CALO: Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes Tuesday, Feb 9 2010
AI 11:58 pm
Whatever happened to CALO? Apparently this. Has anyone used any of these applications? DARPA spent $150 million on this. It looks like a lot of hype to me. The main CALO homepage obviously hasn’t been updated in a while — even the copyright at the bottom says 2008. The most recent academic publication on their publications page is from 2005.
MIT Tech Review said last spring that Siri Assistant (the iPhone app) “traces its origins” to CALO.* Your link also says this. Here is a PCMag review of Siri Assistant**.
Otherwise, I do not know anything.
*http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22117/
**http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358827,00.asp
Did you see Ben Goertzel’s take on Siri, complete with a reply by Siri’s CEO?
I see no talk about putting it to work for organizing file systems. Do you? That’s where most of my data resides, as files and folders, and I could use some help organizing it. Files shouldn’t need to be “managed” with a “file manager” at all. They should be there where you want them to be – you set up the rules or use the smart defaults – and let the system figure out where to put them and how and where to present them to you.