"We acquire a new company every 2 to 3 weeks" and YOU DIDN'T ABSORB THE CREATORS OF SIRI??
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Siri Creators Debuting New AI Assistant 'Viv' Next Week
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Apple *really* needs the "V-series" chip now! It would give them the upper hand on on-device voice recognition. Not sure why they are still relying 100% on the cloud for this, as it's a serious hinderance. With Siri coming to Macs, it would also set Macs ahead in the computer race, too.
I don't have any credentials that would impress you. Just a guy who has worked in technology and as a writer and animator and illustrator. But I would imagine when one uses the word 'intelligence' one might expect something more than a shopping app that grabs data from a bunch of commercial sites and lets you buy more crap or make a dinner reservation. If I remember correctly early AI was actually interested in arriving at some model of how the human brain works. This was given up for the most part when folks realized there was money to be made making shopping apps. I'm glad you are happy with this. I hope it's a great new platform to buy stuff. I was just thinking using the words Artificial and Intelligence together might imply something a bit more dynamic, interesting and revolutionary. But I think that time has passed.
I find it mildly interesting.
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Don't you have a better virtual assistant at your fortress of solitude?
This is going to be the biggest story of next week. I've been waiting YEARS for Viv.
I always thought the backwards roll with Siri was because of privacy conflicts. Apple is putting privacy on top which doesn't allow Siri to gather as much info as it would need to work any better. Could explain the backwards step in functionality too.
I never really use Siri because it's pretty worthless in it's current state.
I never really use Siri because it's pretty worthless in it's current state.
The creators of Viv... who else?
They shouldn't have bought Siri if they knew they could not use it. That was a waste of money.
Wonder if his new software will answer all the stupid questions some seem to feel the need to ask........
I commend you on that clever comment, yes Kelix is infact more accurate but refuses to leave the fortress, so i'm stuck with Siri.
Kallum.
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Is it unreasonable or stupid to ask siri where to bury a body?
She used to have a good answer for when that particluar question was asked, now she says, "let me check on that" then opens up safari about info or the definition of a bog. lol 
This comment is subpar. You can change the voice in settings.
AI started off as alofty, self aware, Turin test passing entity. It was quickly changed into a marketing term for apps and games for 2 reasons:
1 it was catchy and boosted sales
2 they could not come up with a better name for a set of complex algorithms, so they called it AI.
Does that mean that you have inside or first hand knowledge of this or are you just saying it because you can get away with saying such things on the Internet without any proof?
It's estimated that Siri receives over a billion request, from over a million locations per week, as of Summer '15
The reality is that Microsoft already beat them to the punch with Cortana already built in Surface and their Windows 10 laptops. Apple is still far behind. It doesn't matter if they put Siri on Mac OS X. To be ahead, they would have to completely beef up the AI's ability to comprehend words and request accurately, especially with complex sentences. The problem is that using a v-series chip, it would take up so much memory for the AI to acquire that much vocabulary and comprehension whereas, through the Cloud, it can translate from the servers. I know it's garbage and AI should be independent from such servers like the Cloud but it would probably take a long time for Apple to truly pull this off. It would also make the phone more expensive.
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I can say that they wouldn't let Apple touch Viv. Hell to the NO. There is no point for Apple to buy Viv when they already blew off money on Siri from the same developers. Stupid move.
You'll give this a try and praise Viv. Not Apple. It's going to be multi-platform as intended by the developers. It won't be an iOS exclusive.
In fairness, they only tested Viv through ordering food. You and I and everybody else has no idea what Viv is capable of yet,
Only the creators. It's to early to determine its capabilities and how it can or it will assist us in our daily lives.
For example, approximately 8 months ago a man was working under his car when it fell off the jack and top of him, rendering him trapped. The Man said "Hey Siri" to his phone and requested She dial 911. Emergency responders arrived Shortly later and saved his life. I believe Macrumors posted this article.
A.I. may be useful in the right situations, given it doesn't have to be used for food ordering.
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That's fine your Siri experience has been sub par, but Siri from then until today has changed a lot. If you have time, open YouTube and watch a few video's of the first iteration of Siri compared to today, galactic changes.
I can't contest to asking Siri jokes, as I use her for more
Useful tasks, such as; multitasking, scheduling, and editing. Maybe you haven't tested Siri or found the right tools to utilize her?
In any case, Siri has evolved immensley and give it another few years or so, when she will be integrated in your car and/or possibility of your home. Times are changing. Where we are today and technology, most iPhone users would not want to live without Siri. At least speaking from my perspective.
I want to agree with you but Siri feels "dumber" to me than a few years ago. I haven't studied it that closely but these days I get more misses than hits in all categories. And even if she is "more than stellar" as you say, she still requires an Internet connection to do anything and Apple has never released a proper API for developers so she can't tie into a million apps. All she can do is search your phone, search google or search wolfram alpha. Much more useful than Alexa but not more useful than Google Now or Cortana.
I guess we're still many years away from real AI. For now we have to settle for voice recognition and basic command tasks that we could already do 15 years ago.
More so in retrospect, Siri is more fluent and able to decipher more tasks based your requests. I think most users will unanimously agree Siri is way more functional and useful with Car Play and multitasking then ever before. I don't think we are to the point where we need to worry about Siri programming my washing machine for me.