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Apple's AI Chief John Giannandrea Departs This Week
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HouseLannister
macrumors 68040
Performance might affect a future stock grant, but this was stock he already earned that just had a clock on it.
If he was fired, he wouldn't have kept unvested stock. But he didn't "suck" enough for that to happen. He quit and timed it well.
teaneedz
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meanwhile the ios keyboard continues to be a joke and trash. whenever apple mentions an upcoming improved keyboard experience I just laugh now. The updated releases do NOT fix it.
if apple can't get AI or ML to fix this abomination, Cook should be canned. I stopped recommending Apple products to anyone over this and the whole software degradation. These issues land at the feet of both Tim and Craig.
if apple can't get AI or ML to fix this abomination, Cook should be canned. I stopped recommending Apple products to anyone over this and the whole software degradation. These issues land at the feet of both Tim and Craig.
sw1tcher
macrumors 604
There's this mental image I have of the situation:
(draws a circle in the air) Circle of Trust
(finger points to a point outside the circle) You!
(draws a circle in the air) Circle of Trust
(finger points to a point outside the circle) You!
roklanhavok
macrumors regular
I feel like so much is going on in AI now that Apple definitely has some catching up to do even with their internal org. However, I do believe they are aware of this now, so that's good.
btrach144
macrumors 68040
During his time of 8 years at the helm, Siri did not get any better. Siri is such an important part that it should have had dedicated talk time at WWDC each year. There should have been yearly updates as to what will make Siri better.
I would argue that Siri actually might have even gotten worse during John's tenure. Just last year I would go for a walk during the summer and ask Siri to start an outdoor walk. She would reply that there was not a light in my basement named that. Huh?
Siri has even become a joke to my kids. They reply, "oh Siri" anything she's accidentally activated or says something wrong.
The only noticeable change John made to Siri during his tenure was removing the Hey part of Hey Siri.
This also reflects poorly on Tim Cook for keeping John around for so long.
I would argue that Siri actually might have even gotten worse during John's tenure. Just last year I would go for a walk during the summer and ask Siri to start an outdoor walk. She would reply that there was not a light in my basement named that. Huh?
Siri has even become a joke to my kids. They reply, "oh Siri" anything she's accidentally activated or says something wrong.
The only noticeable change John made to Siri during his tenure was removing the Hey part of Hey Siri.
This also reflects poorly on Tim Cook for keeping John around for so long.
mansplains
macrumors 68000
Of all the reasons to switch platforms, I never imagined a fundamental part, like the keyboard, would be mismanaged enough to make me consider android.
I don't really understand this sentiment. By all accounts he was a researcher who was put into a management position and given an impossible task: fix Siri without replacing it.
As far as I can tell the main thing he did wrong was taking the job in the first place.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Yeah sure. If the keyboard and Siri irk you enough to switch platforms, go for it.
Clearly he wasn't stupid (he was a former CTO), but don't dress this up as something it wasn't, from here;
"In a move that’s expected to help Apple enhance its AI capabilities, the company has hired Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea. This was announced Tuesday by the Cupertino giant, who said Giannandrea will be in charge of the company’s ‘machine learning and A.I. strategy’, and will be one of the 16 executives to report directly to CEO Tim Cook."
Being promoted from within is ok - doing a great job, getting more responsibility & failing, granted that's to be admired, but what happened here is he applied & took on the role at apple, completely different thing altogether.
Digital Dude
macrumors 68000
mansplains
macrumors 68000
I’ve always used dictation, but now it’s a necessity. I only use Siri on my homepods and watch. I can’t believe how poor the keyboard has become, can you imagine physical keys changing sizes with software updates in order to emphasize those used most often, or whatever Apple’s goal is? I experienced three mistypes (four now, “mistyoes”) writing this.
emulator
macrumors 65816
Exactly this, seems people on this forum have no clue what goes on at work places. Like this generation has never seen an office, and just buying/selling stock/gold/currency/crypto at home; or making stupid yt content.