I just saw the above video on Gizmodo and it's cool, real cool! What we are seeing is British Telecom scientists using Siri, Apple's voice assistant, to assist in helping them research and find a cure for cancer.
As Gizmodo pointed out:
"Last month, at a conference in Boston, BT's Bas Burger used Siri to launch a mock experiment that analyzed data on the new cloud service the company build specifically for life sciences R&D.
Talking into his iPhone, Burger asked Siri to crunch some numbers on BT's cloud using a common research tool called Pipeline Pilot, and after authenticating Burger, Siri complied. Moments later, Burger asked her for a status update, and she told him the experiment was complete, offering the results on his phone"
Talking into his iPhone, Burger asked Siri to crunch some numbers on BT's cloud using a common research tool called Pipeline Pilot, and after authenticating Burger, Siri complied. Moments later, Burger asked her for a status update, and she told him the experiment was complete, offering the results on his phone"
In conclusion, you can read more of this remarkable experiment in Gizmodo's post above, but the interesting thing here is that any success obtained from the above experiment should not only be usable for scientific research, but it should also be adaptable in helping ordinary people do ordinary research for just about anything, be it a school exam or a business project, and also help make computer assisted research more Star Trek like, or better said, more human like. Now that's something that I really like!
And that's my 2 cents 4 this cloudy, rainy and dreary Thursday, May 10, 2012
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