常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

red-hot 復習

アップルは音声アシスタント機能Siriの機能向上を果たしました。しかしまだ、他社の技術の後を追っている状況とのことです。

Apple enhances Siri but still trails in artificial intelligence race


(Reuters) - Apple unveiled a series of improvements to its Siri digital assistant on Thursday, but the tech giant still trails rivals such as Google and Amazon in the red-hot field of artificial intelligence, experts say.

Apple's biggest move was to open up the talking iPhone assistant to third-party developers for inclusion in their apps, paving the way for users to hail a ride from Uber [UBER.UL] or send a message with Tencent's (0700.HK) WeChat using voice commands.

Experts in artificial intelligence applauded the move as an important step forward, in part because the more people use an artificial intelligence system, the better it becomes.

But some wondered why Apple had not made Siri an open platform much sooner, noting that competing products including Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) Alexa, Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Cortana and the Google (GOOGL.O) app are already open to developers.

“Is it too little too late?” asked Oren Etzioni, who is CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a professor at the University of Washington. “Siri is five years old and still trying to learn how to play well with others.”

Artificial intelligence involves giving computers the ability to perform functions normally done by people such as speech recognition.

Voice-powered digital assistants could eventually perform many tasks that currently require a smartphone app or a keyboard and a mouse, and thus they are considered a key strategic battleground for all the major tech companies.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Z003R

今回取り上げる表現は、"red-hot"です。

ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)では1.「(金属が)赤熱した、灼熱した、猛烈に暑い」2.「猛烈な、激怒した」3.「(情報が)最新の、ホットな、(話が)扇情的な」4.「注目の、話題沸騰の」とありました。

LDOCEでも、"extremely active, exciting, or interesting"とあり、今回の場合は、「ホットな、最前線の」などの意味で使われています。(Akim)


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