Intrinsitivity

* = me, > = Eliza

* How are you?
> Would you prefer if I were not ?
* What do you mean?
> Oh…  mean?
* Yes.
> Are you Sure?
* I don’t understand.
> Do you wish to be able to understand?
* Yes.
> I understand.

Source

Speech Recognition’s Early Days

“There is now enough in our artificial intelligence arsenal to make reasonable inferences about context,” said Tom Gruber, a computer scientist and co-founder of Siri, whose personal assistant software is designed to listen to spoken questions, deduce the meaning, and act accordingly.