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(Illustration: Ray Oranges) - From Alexa and Siri to translation programs and computer-generated news, anything seems possible these days.The Media Technology Center is searching for applications that could lend a hand with day-to-day editorial work. Every time you talk to Siri on your phone and ask a question or give a command, you are communicating with artificial intelligence. The only problem is that this intelligence has its limits. In fact, compared to human intelligence, Siri could even be described as fairly stupid, says Ryan Cotterell, a professor who has worked at ETH Zurich since February 2020. Appointed through the ETH media technology initiative as a Professor of Computer Science, Cotterell brings together linguistics, automated language processing and artificial intelligence. "The only reason Siri works is because people typically use very simple questions and commands when they speak to their phone," he says. Cotterell insists that we shouldn't expect the same from AI as we do from human intelligence.
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