It is stupefying that this article is written now, and there is not a single reference to semantic web, or artificial intelligence research.
This problem has been identified decades ago, years of research have gone into it, and some solutions have been identified. Granted, most solutions are not workable, precisely because they try to be too smart, which ends up not working either.
But just saying "why is my meeting scheduled at 2am?" or "why doesn't it recognize names?" or calling out "This is the end of dumb software!" is being dumb yourself. Seth could've at least done a little bit of research.
This problem has been identified decades ago, years of research have gone into it, and some solutions have been identified. Granted, most solutions are not workable, precisely because they try to be too smart, which ends up not working either.
But just saying "why is my meeting scheduled at 2am?" or "why doesn't it recognize names?" or calling out "This is the end of dumb software!" is being dumb yourself. Seth could've at least done a little bit of research.