Tim Cook is not the Director of Machine Learning. He’s a business man. Tim Cook told him to get back to work and he left instead so I applaud Tim Cook. Maybe Tim Cook wanted him back in work because of the garbage he oversaw.
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Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
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Does this guy work on Siri? Do you know how software engineering is done? Do you know how APIs work?
The last I heard, John Giannandrea is the chief of Siri.
Spoiler alert, Siri does use Machine Learning.
If a sports team plays bad for a few years under the same coach, you blame the coach and GM. This is the same thing.
Goodfellow is not the head of Siri.
The CEO is responsible for everything. If something doesn't work, then it's his job to get it fixed. The buck stops with the CEO.
He got it fixed. This guy walked because he didn’t want to go back to the office or he’d get fired.
Excellent post. Great topic for conversation! You’re gonna have to ask me on a date for that info.
About 50% of office workers feel the same way as this guy.
This guy left for a number of reasons. The biggest was RTO.
It's a big issue.
Again, I don’t know and I don’t care. I’m a consumer that wants his devices working as advertised.
Machine Learning is integrated in Siri. They can fire or let them all walk for all I care. The product I paid for is awful and that’s my only concern. It needs to be fixed.
Was never an issue before the pandemic. People got comfortable. They should’ve known at some point that they’d be back. They were hired to work in the office, not from home.
If you don't like it, please go buy an Android phone. Life is too short to be unhappy with your phone.
Well, that’s been spotty too lol.My understanding is the only part of Siri that uses ML is the initial speech recognition part. The "Hey Siri"
Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The "Hey Siri" feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…machinelearning.apple.com
Preferences change.
There's currently a labor shortage so they have leverage right now.
Companies that provide the perks that employees want will get the better pick in employees.
Well, get the one that sucks less.
I don't use voice assistants. If I need help, I just call my assistant on the phone for help.
There was a service that did this in the past. You paid a certain amount per month and you could call up a number and asked for help like looking something up over the internet, make an appointment for you, etc. It's nice to have a real person.
That’s exactly what I did but this Apple stuff has gotten worse over the past couple years. Coincidence? I’m not about to trash and spend on thousands of dollars worth of electronics to play trial and error.
If you don't like your Mac, get a Windows system.
Azure TTS is the best that I've seen in TTS. Maybe their assistant is top-notch too.
Simple. A pipeline would run from the Point-of-Sale to the barista's home.
Apple's main concern is not the quality of your life. You don't want to work at the office? Okay--there are plenty of people who will take that Apple $$$ and be happy to work in Cupertino.
I don't even know where to start... But the 10,000 ft answer is:
Some features of Siri use ML, just like some features of Face ID, Touch ID, Spotlight, etc.
ML ranges from least squares to GANs.
That's why it's so silly to say "hur durr, Siri no work! So ML employee sucked".
Goodfellow is the brain behind https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en
Machine Learning has way more applications than trivial virtual assistants. For whatever reason (and I'm not sure why), I just assumed the audience of MacRumors would know these things.