Simon Willison’s Weblog

Originally, however, speech recognition was going to lead to artificial intelligence. Computing pioneer Alan Turing suggested in 1950 that we “provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.” Over half a century later, artificial intelligence has become prerequisite to understanding speech. We have neither the chicken nor the egg.

— Robert Fortner

# 4th May 2010, 12:35 pm / ai, alan-turing, robert-fortner, speechrecognition, recovered