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Siri Creators Debuting New AI Assistant 'Viv' Next Week
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Can it take into account all the human 'uhming' and 'erring' one makes whilst asking a compound request? Having to plan out a long phrase before asking an AI assistant isn't very natural feeling.
Thanks for the kind link to the site which talks about dictation. I'm not to sure why you posted it here as my post already stated I do this a lot.
True AI is difficult to implement, but that doesn't mean that it's not possible to program a software agent that's actually helpful, along the lines of Apple's demo Knowledge Navigator in 1987. When Apple incorporated Siri into iOS in 2011, I thought it had a lot of promise. Unfortunately, despite Apple's considerable resources, Siri hasn't lived up to its potential, and I rarely use it these days.
If Apple can't innovate on their own with truckloads of R&D money and armies of people then they should pay or stay away and let it flourish like Dropbox. Hey Viv, do you think Eddy must go?
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Being able to integrate with services directly is absolutely key. A virtual assistant can never be an assistant if it only knows how to perform certain functions of several system apps. As long as Apple does not offer an API for Siri, it will never be any good.
Apple already scan and check your cloud data for anything they don't like the look of I believe.
Though that's never really mentioned of course.
No he didn't. He spelled Apple just fine.
Agreed. You would think that with the resources available to Apple, they would be able to truly push boundaries. Sure things like force touch, Apple Pay, etc are all great. But they don't really spell innovation in the way things like this do. Personally I hope that the creators working on Viv decide to license vs sell their company to someone like Apple.
So sad, yet so true.
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These guys will stay away from Apple like the plague. They left Apple soon after the acquisition of Siri. You wonder why Siri has stayed so underwhelming? Because these guys left to work on furthering their ideas in an innovative setting. Sure as hell is not Cupertino.
Wow, pretty forward thinking from you on this forum. I LIKE it!
10 years ago, when I worked in Bellevue, WA, a Microsoft engineer friend demonstrated voice recognition software he was working on, on his phone (he helped develop it for cars), and it understood him clearly in a noisy room full of people. The iPhone may be able to do that today, but I get frustrated by it recognizing what I said, and still asking me to clarify; or, not getting contact results that are definitely on the phone; or, its crappy robotic voice... Google's voice (I mostly hear it in Google Maps) has always been more pleasant and natural, and sounds like it got a recent upgrade in quality.
My only question is, What has Apple been doing all this time with Siri? It seems that these technologies that Apple buys, stay frozen in time for the most part. If Apple is buying a company ever 3 weeks, which is a little over 17 companies a year, where is all this technology going?
AI: six decades of parlour tricks. The human mind and conciousness cannot be replicated with digital systems, it's a fool's errand. All we can hope for are fast and reliable stores of canned algorithms (e.g. Siri, Cortana, etc.) that can mimic simple tasks to save a bit of time here and there.
Seems it is becoming fashionable to hate apple nowadays, well really just in the past few weeks. It is also becoming fashionable to use the word meme as much as possible, a word I have not even really seen at all until about a month ago and now appears every 3rd or 4th article across the web.
I'm unsure what your post means, lol... Was there a right answer I was supposed to aim for? lol
Honestly, I didn't really remember what her answer was, as I haven't asked her that question for probably more than a year. So that why I posted what I did, lolKal.
There's been Apple hate for at least a decade on forums. And the word Meme has been popular for at least a couple of years too.
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And even if that was the plan, what's wrong with that? You are talking about the company that wants us to buy everything they make over and over again by making their product a bit smarter/better to make a "crapton more money" themselves.
Pretty much this. That's not to say I want us to give up trying. We gotten some pretty nice ancillary benefits from our attempts at creating our overlords.
There may be a reason for that natural sound. Google has gone outside the box to improve it's "AI". I started reading this and thought, "What the hell... why?" Further down the logic became sound and I was like, "Well damn, that's a novel approach."
http://9to5google.com/2016/05/05/google-ai-romance-novels/
Currently, there are no compelling incentives in competing phone OS's to cause me to leave the Apple ecosystem. However, if someone eventually offers a competent, efficient, virtual assistant that does more than quote baseball scores or make cute remarks, I’ll switch.
The thing is, for many of us Siri works just fine. I have a friend who whines and complains about Siri on his phone, we’ve gone through the voice training for his but still, he will say something to his phone and it will balk, I can yell it from across the table and his Siri does what I tell it to do.
I love the Apple Watch, I can be in a crowded noisy bar, talk to my wrist and a reminder to do something when I arrive at home is accurately saved. I can reliable make new events, use it as a voice calculator, dictate messages.
Viv will be a quantum leap ahead, and yes Apple products should have some level of voice interaction without having an internet connection, but as interesting as Viv sounds I’m not sure what I would use it for beyond what I can already do.