I'm always a little miffed when I see natural language being the input, because now in order to use the tech I need to also play the "guess the verb" games.<p>This is especially bad in Wolfram Alpha.... I can clearly see that all parts of a query are supported but I have to get the NLP part to parse my sentences right. Though there is Mathematica I guess....<p>Not that I dislike all natural language stuff (far from it) but I'd love to have access to an AST builder too
"What can CAP do for you?
First let's agree….. worst name ever. Now that we're past that, here's our story, and an ask."<p>MS, you're competing with a product called "IFTTT". Don't think so lowly of yourself!
> AP is an experimental project from Microsoft Technology and Research, available to you as and Android app on Google Play Store and the web.<p>And this is why I went from Windows Phone 8 to Android. The Microsoft experience on Android is arguably better than on their own OS.
"First let's agree….. worst name ever."<p>... At least they are consistent over time. Reminds me of this parody:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k</a><p>I attempted to make a couple of tasks, so far it's very limited, but kudos to getting the framework going.
None of the examples actually save you any work/task completion. They line up more work/things to monitor/read/process and set you up for overload.
Looks sweet. Small spelling mistake<p>'available to you as and Android app on Google Play Store'<p>Should be<p>'available to you as <i>an</i> Android app on Google Play Store'
This whole page looks very sloppy. In addition to the weird name, the grammar is iffy and sentences don't sound native. The fonts are also off.<p>It makes me wonder if this is actually a Microsoft project.
Is this a natural language interface of this service <a href="https://flow.microsoft.com" rel="nofollow">https://flow.microsoft.com</a> ?
I find it very amusing when people name other brands/apps etc on their homepage especially those where you don't have any business connection.<p>Case in point here is naming Pocket App on the homepage prominently. It gives on impression that Pocket is some big successful app but in reality has merely 22M users (active users must be lot lower).<p>I hope I am right to assume that MS has nothing to do with Pocket app.
Because of the post the other day about Bongard problems [1] I can't help but wonder if it is possible to use that author's algorithms to automatically detect the kinds of conditional patterns that this software wants to automate.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12064188" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12064188</a>
Anyone know what the "HTTP" integration is? If I could get this service to make an (authenticated?) web request I could make it hit a service on a box at home to turn some other stuff on.<p>Ability to turn my Xbox One on from a programmable button would be great, considering the Xbox Live team took Wake On Lan and turned it into something requiring a Microsoft-signed cert...
When I sign in with my outlook.com email address it asks for permission for the "Luis-Actions" app to read my email, among other permissions. It's probably Microsoft, but I wish they would have made the signup experience look a little more trustworthy.