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		ethbro on May 29, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Acquisitions accelerate as tech giants seek to bui... Here's why I put it there. Devices which feature functional natural language input can ditch virtual or physical keyboards and all the associated hardware. Which is a fundamentally more cost-effective design. Which is going to enable "smart" devices at price points that traditional screen-and-input devices can't compete at. And if only certain companies have strong enough AI and NL processing to enable this? That's going to reshape the market. (Yes, I'm looking at Apple)

jpttsn on May 30, 2017 [–]

That's a case for voice input, rather than natural language per se.

ethbro on May 30, 2017 | [–]

Point, it is. I suppose the difference between those two will depend on future progress.

It'll be curious if some languages' grammars are more amenable to NL.

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