Baidu
Powerful speech technology from China’s leading Internet company makes it much easier to use a smartphone.
“It is a challenge and an opportunity,” says Ng, who was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 in 2008 for his work in AI and robotics at Stanford. “Rather than having to train people used to desktop computers to new behaviors appropriate for cell phones, many of them can learn the best ways to use a mobile device from the start.”
“In the future, I would love for us to be able to talk to all of our devices and have them understand us,” Ng says. “I hope to someday have grandchildren who are mystified at how, back in 2016, if you were to say ‘Hi’ to your microwave oven, it would rudely sit there and ignore you.”
