{"id":9408,"date":"2013-03-05T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:00:37","slug":"human-interaction-under-threat-from-nina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9408","title":{"rendered":"Human Interaction Under Threat from NINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nina stands for Nuance Interactive Natural Assistant and was launched on the iOS and Android platforms last August, allowing businesses to integrate the sophisticated voice recognition and natural language engine into their apps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/articles\/442334\/20130305\/nina-virtual-assistant-nuance-threatens-human-interaction.htm\">Human Interaction Under Threat from NINA \u2013 the Virtual Assistant &#8211; IBTimes UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like an interesting development offshoot from projects like <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/innovation\/us\/watson\/\">IBM&#8217;s Watson<\/a> (the computer that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Watson_%28computer%29#Competing_on_Jeopardy.21\">beat the best humans on Jeopardy<\/a>).\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The days of human behind the counter or at the end of a telephone line at coming to an end. As voice recognition and natural language engines become ever more sophisticated, it may soon be hard to distinguish between an automated system and the real thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not looking forward to this day.\u00a0 Perhaps this is what HAL tried to warn us about in 2001 A Space Odyssey.\u00a0 Very prescient indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina stands for Nuance Interactive Natural Assistant and was launched on the iOS and Android platforms last August, allowing businesses to integrate the sophisticated voice recognition and natural language engine into their apps. via Human Interaction Under Threat from NINA &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,737],"tags":[543,441,979],"class_list":["post-9408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","category-stem","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-user-interface","tag-voice-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}