Apple Removes Former AI Chief John Giannandrea From Executive Leadership Page

[whatnot]

AI Chief was hallucinating too much slop.

 

[Fraserpatty]

Apple's leadership group members are either retiring or going to Meta. People talk about Jobs being an evil man, but I never saw this many people leaving while Jobs was the CEO.

When you see continuous exodus from an organization, it is on the top leader. Cookmight be a great op guy, but he is probably a not a great #1. Apple needs to act fast.

I agree . If Cook was not able to see And work unceasingly on getting the right person to get Siri fixed, as it is, one of the main features on every single device that Apple puts out then the problem stems from him. Craig is to blame as well. I’m sorry I don’t think John G is the one to single out. This debacle was going on long before John G even came to the company. He just did not fix what was an ongoing problem.

 

[Rayansb]

Apple had an AI chief?

 

[Octavius8]

Siri does not exists. And Apple innovation and DECISION died with Steve.

 

[capamac]

I don't view Apple's "AI failures" as their fault, really.

The LLMs suck everywhere, at every company. The LLM technology is just not very good. How's Apple supposed to fix that? Is Apple suppose to create AGI?

 

[Agent007]

Nothing more fun than ridiculing a person you know nothing about. I'd be very happy if I'd ever been listed on an Apple exec page. But I'm just an old physicist.

Maybe if you keep sticking up for them they'll hire you😆

 

[teaneedz]

I don't view Apple's "AI failures" as their fault, really.

The LLMs suck everywhere, at every company. The LLM technology is just not very good. How's Apple supposed to fix that? Is Apple suppose to create AGI?

true enough about LLMs but siri is ridiculously bad and don't get me started with autocorrect. he represented AI and would need to go for where Apple sits. the buck doesn't stop with him though. the risk now is getting a replacement who is a real slop believer and wants to shove it into every inch of software. here's hoping that doesn't happen.

 

[mansplains]

If they would only fix their bugs that fast.

They can deliver bugs quickly, close enough

 

[tothemoonsands]

He's getting a respectful termination at least.

 

[GlamCheese666]

This really comes as no surprise. It was years in the making..... Hopefully they can double down now on software control. iOS 26 is doomed to be a beta throughout no doubt, but I like what the "vision" is. I know some of y'all may not agree with it, but they are trying to give a refresh while sticking to core principles of "it should be like a bike and all generations should be able to navigate this OS no problem." Watch them say OS 27 (iOS, iPad OS, MacOS, etc) be a quality control and refinement OS. While I like what they're doing, there is definitely areas such as Apple Music where the new UI is more cumbersome and requiring more thought over each touch rather than being intuitive as Apple software should be. This also goes for WatchOS with workouts being annoying to switch between......We shall see what happens. Again this year is definitely an experimenting year and hopefully they have solutions in next year's OS.

 

[The_Auryn]

They clearly want to lay all the blame for their AI failures on Giannandrea. I wonder if that is accurate.

Into the cornfield ...

 

[Kr0019]

If Apple Intelligence continues to be bad now that Giannandrea is done, you'll have your answer. I wonder why he is given the dignity of being able to stay around as an advisor when any lower level Apple employee would be kicked out ASAP. I think Scott Forstall got to stay around for about a year as an advisor too.

Because high level executive sackings affect the share price so they have to orchestrate a delicate exit. It would also signal a complete failure to execute their promised AI strategy when it was clear that not only was their AI dept running behind, they weren't even communicating with the overall OS software team. When you break it down to its core components, this has been a massive internal structural failure never seen before at Apple since Steve Jobs returned. One has to wonder what the hell the executive team leaders were doing through all this?

 

[Wx_Man]

Federighi needs to go. Back in the day, he was good. His skill level isn't up to par, anymore.

But as Warren Zevon sang in “Werewolves of London”…..”his hair was perfect !”

 

[svish]

Removed for now but the page might be updated with him getting some other title (as he is still an advisor) till he leaves Apple.

 

[SebCohen]

With all the stumbles Apple has had of late (some actually pretty bad), it shows how solid they structurally are. If I was the board, I’d have fired cook for the AI mess last year.

 

[lusty]

I asked Siri what it thought about this.

"Sorry, I don't understand."

You need to use the full keyword: “Sirisetatimer” for it to do anything

 

[DoctorMesmer]

I asked Siri what it thought about this.

"Sorry, I don't understand."

You’re lucky – my standard reply from Siri is “Getting directions to Arbroath”!

 

[DoctorMesmer]

I don't view Apple's "AI failures" as their fault, really.

The LLMs suck everywhere, at every company. The LLM technology is just not very good. How's Apple supposed to fix that? Is Apple suppose to create AGI?

I couldn’t disagree more. Apple has been looking in the wrong direction on AI for years and the responsibility for that lies at the top. I stopped relying on Siri…well, I never could rely on Siri, whilst I use AI from the likes of Google and OpenAI on a daily basis now.

More broadly, I’ve been an Apple user since the 1980s but if I didn’t have a specific use case that tied me in to Apple’s music production apps from GarageBand through to Logic Pro (which are both great), I would have ditched my iPhone ages ago. Each to their own, though.

 

[User 6502]

I don't view Apple's "AI failures" as their fault, really.

The LLMs suck everywhere, at every company. The LLM technology is just not very good. How's Apple supposed to fix that? Is Apple suppose to create AGI?

Apple is supposed to be at least half as good as its competitors, which it isn't. LLM technology is quite decent, but Siri is not. At all.

 

[JaydenA]

While Craig Federighi is pretty popular with Apple fans

And Zuck clearly loves Poached Apples. Maybe we can still get lucky he'll get gobbled up too.

 

[tyranne201]

everybody is leaving the boat

 

[pbau]

" Microsoft Corporate VP of AI Amar Subramanya"

the guy that worked there for 4 months in this postion?
good luck Apple lol

 

[Kylo83]

this feels like the end of apple, they are not doing well with new products and software and people are leaving

 

[jonnysods]

I guess the one thing we don’t get news about is how many people they are hiring or stealing from other companies? So it does tend to make things look lopsided.

 

[chmania]

Former Microsoft Corporate VP of AI Amar Subramanya is set to take over as Apple's vice president of AI, ...

Microsoft helps Apple again... 😉