Building practical AI systems
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Describes a working 1993 prototype tablet that supported speech plus handwriting recognition, calendars, email and maps and argues launching earlier would have failed while launching five years later would be too late. Identifies the iPhone as trigger — small screen, slow bandwidth, hard typing — that makes voice interfaces practical within a two‑year window. Compares environments: SRI research incubates ideas, big firms scale slowly, startups face a runway in dollars and must take long, ambitious bets.
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