On the day when I was selected to evaluate HTC U11, I immediately went downstairs to buy a lottery ticket. Unfortunately, I didn't win the lottery... But I still look forward to the arrival of HTC U11. If I am most curious about what part of this phone is, it must be the DuerOS conversational AI operating system. Smart phones equipped with voice assistants are the current trend. For example, Xiao Bing and Xiao Na of Siri and Song are very mature products, but they are not acclimatized. There are also many self produced products in the Chinese market, and there is no big splash at present. So the DuerOS is a mule or a horse.

So I specially designed a five level intelligence test for small speech assistants to see what level it can reach.

Level 1: Baidu encyclopedic knowledge

As a smart phone voice assistant, you must know at least Baidu's encyclopedic common sense, and you will know it even if it is difficult. For example, Siri will throw your questions to Baidu without moving.

Let's ask the first question. Who is taller, Yao Ming or Yi Jianlian?

Xiaodu gave the answer very quickly. What's amazing is that it gives card answers, rather than presenting them in the way of web search results like most mobile assistants. Laotie double clicked a wave of 66666!

Another question that my nephew always asks me, is the distance between the moon and the earth?

Perfect! The first level is passed with full marks.

Level 2: Open common sense questions

Baidu Encyclopedia is just an appetizer. Everyone on earth knows that for AI, questions with a given answer can be pushed only by mobilizing data. What about those without a unique answer?

Now I'd like to share some of my nephew's regular questions.

Why are there days and nights? (At that time, my answer was that people wanted to sleep.)

How do children come from? (My answer is delivered by express... I hope my sister-in-law won't beat me orz)

My answer is almost perfect. I will rely on it to deal with my nephew in the future. Full score for Level II test.

Level 3: Unconventional question and answer for understanding meaning

Since the small degree is so powerful, I temporarily adjusted the test questions to increase the difficulty. Understanding semantics is very difficult for AI, so I give some questions that are ambiguous in semantics. Can I answer them successfully with a small degree?

What do you read every day?

What do you read with three local characters?

It's so awesome. You don't have a manual customer service to answer for you.

Level 4: Emotional Q&A

Since I have talked so much with Xiaodu's voice assistant, it's time to have a heart to heart conversation. First of all, of course, I asked Xiaodu what kind of songs she likes to listen to.

To my surprise, Xiaodu is still a fan of Lu Han. It's really the post-00s.

I was sleepy during the evaluation. I said hello to it and said I was going to sleep.

Level 5: Multi round dialogue question and answer

To tell you the truth, we can pass the first four hurdles, and the small voice assistant is at least a qualified voice assistant. The last level is to evaluate its multi round dialogue ability. After all, the form of "one question and one answer" contains limited information and the system is simple to understand. However, multiple rounds of dialogue are different. It is necessary to deal with several issues at the same time, which is a test of IQ.

Yes, I just try to change it. What's wrong with it!

Make an appointment first and remind me to go to Shanghai on June 24th. Unexpectedly, it will ask me questions on its own initiative.

Then check a restaurant.

Xiaodu successfully completed the test again, and executed the second or even the third condition under one precondition. This is the first time that I have met the mobile phone voice assistant.

I successfully passed all the five levels of tests I set up, and performed beyond my expectations. I was even amazed by my individual abilities. The small voice assistant is more grounded and has adapted to the Mandarin environment very well. It can even recognize a dialect slang from time to time.

This time, I really turned fans to HTC passers-by. I can deal with bear children like my nephew after buying them.

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