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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.The possibility of deep NLP suggest that there are tremendous opportunities for building a personal assistant. For Deep NLP, I would suggest course CS224D at Stanford on YouTube (going on now but also delivered last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZteabVD8sUFor Deep NLP, you will need to be solid on linear algebra and machine learning. For introduction to machine learning, check out Andrew Ng at Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning and my favorite talks on Linear Algebra are the ones done by Gilbert Strang: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...
For web crawling, there are plenty of open source libraries. If you are not familiar with it, check out the Common Crawl: http://commoncrawl.org/ This is a great source of data to crawl.
If you focus solely on NLP and data from the Common Crawl (or even Wikipedia), then you will see where you stand as the smoke clears and you feel comfortable with the state of the art techniques.
Ignore all the naysayers. The good news is that it has never been easier to get started in deep NLP. Once you have the experience of training a model and seeing how well it works, you can decide on the next steps. Perhaps, you will find a niche that is not well-served that you can go after as a first step of a personal assistant.
Good luck.