Natural Language is Anything But!
NLP — Natural Language Processing
It’s the core of our product along with so many other companies. With the latest advances in technology and artificial intelligence many experts are predicting a new computer age.
It’s an age where interacting with our devices becomes more and more intuitive. Look at any blog or user guide on building a successful app and you will come across onboarding. Onboarding is the process of training a new user on how to use your product.
Our goal is to remove the need for training when using Dogleg Golf.
BUT HOW?
Rather than swipes and searching for things inside an app, we envisage a simple question.
As an example why not try and alter your “tagged photos” settings in Facebook.
How long did that take? Would it not be quicker to just ask Facebook about it?
”Hey Facebook can I change my tagged photos section?”
DIFFICULTIES
All transformational technologies make our life easier, efficient or more interesting.
If NLP was so much easier why isn’t it everywhere already?
Basically the tech is still struggling with extracting the right information from a phrase. Humans speak in the context of related threads and use an incredible variety of slang and language to describe the same thing.
This is making for slow progress with Apple, Google and Microsoft’s assistants. But the good news is NLP really seems to be making process in narrow fields or contexts.
SCRIPTING VERSUS CODING
The daunting yet exciting thing for us is that the more Dogleg Golf is used the more powerful it gets. The more conversations or data the better.
So starting out we will have many failed conversations that get re routed back to the main menu of actions. But over time he will improve and be a big help to golfers and golf clubs.
Have you ever waited days for an email reply from a club or struggled to find information about membership on a website?
Building Dogleg is much more like writing a screenplay script than coding an app. What route of questioning will the golfer take?
We are limited with the user interface. It’s all conversation. We must train Dani the Doglegger to have golfing intelligence!
WHAT WOULD YOU ASK?
If Dogleg was live now, what would you ask?
A golf history question or perhaps a tip from famous coach?
A rule query or are you perhaps looking for information on the latest equipment?
There is a world of possibilities out there!
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