“The portion of evolution in which animals developed eyes was a big development. Now computers have eyes.”— Jeff Dean, nytimes.com
“On a psychologic level, once you can speak to a system, you attribute more emotional depth to it than a computer you might interact with using text or a graphic interface.”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“Speech recognition systems have improved recently, but no AI system is good enough to understand conversational speech just yet. Speech recognition relies on both listening to what you say and predicting what you will say next, so structured speech is still much easier to understand than unstructure…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com