Siri Creators Debuting New AI Assistant 'Viv' Next Week

[Dr.Chroma]

That's all I really needed to know. I'm good with that, and I'm not going to demand all manner of proof and statistics from you. It would be impolite on an opinionated website where we all call it as we see it.

Besides, have you heard? I'm seriously considering going into business darning socks!

I'm not being rude. But when you start making claims for 'Millions of People', then you should have a citation to quote that. Macrumors works that way, otherwise anyone can make any claim, hence why it helps to back your statements.

Good luck with your sock business.

 

[hagar]

The problem with Apple is that they move far too slow on the software- and services side. It takes them years to roll-out services internationally, work out obvious bugs and add much needed features. They set the bar far too low with Siri, Photos, iCloud, iWorks, Maps, ... and now the fundaments of OSX and iOS are also starting to erode.

They will have to present some pretty innovative features on WWDC10 if they want to impress. And given their track record over the last years, they will probably introduce 200+ minor enhancements. And Siri for Mac (which is in it's current incarnation useless).

 

[MisterK]

If Siri was the only voice assistant around, I would understand people defending it. Both Google and Amazon (perhaps Microsoft, as well as a couple of others) however seem to have lapped Apple on this one. It's like coming out with an airline in 2016 with a fleet of airplanes from the 1930s, customers complaining and you pointing out that flight is an amazing human achievement. I really hope Apple invests the time and money to catch up with and surpass the competition. It feels like Siri's voice recognition (figuring out what I'm saying) is (fairly?) reliable now, but her capabilities to act have not. It's remarkable how little progress has been made since her debut 5 years ago. We have not seen 5 years of progress.

I only hope the rumours of text based Siri in MacOS are true and there's significant upgrades coming in the backend across the Apple platforms. I really feel that natural language input is vital to the future of computing and I hope Apple gets this right.

I'd love to see Apple buying a search company (maybe Yahoo) so Siri can figure out more answers instead of showing me a list of links. Maybe it's a more significant partnership with IBM and Watson. Maybe there's more learning to be done from Bots (like determining my needs through Siri asking questions back). Maybe Siri acts as a bot, since the App boom has largely died out.

 

[inkswamp]

You don't have to work there to make an observation and then to say (on an opinionated website/blog/forum) that you think that's how they do it!

It's good to know that our fact-checkers are fully engaged in the conversation this evening. It might mean "The End of Civilization" if somebody was allowed to get away with an unlicensed or careless application of dramatic hyperbole.

For example, if I say it's millions, then I mean it's me and a bunch of other people who have agreed with me in some past forum posts. I mean, it HAS to be millions, so to me it's the same thing!

By the way, bacon may make everything taste better, but I truly love dramatic hyperbole, which is best when I am the one serving it!

That's all fine but if someone authoritatively makes claims about Apple's inner workings and gives the impression that they've worked there, I'm happy to ask them for sources. Sadly, many people mistake their own butts as a legitimate source for that information. I'm just trying to clarify it.

 

[Jessica Lares]

It's interesting to approach the programming from the speech first, and have it automatically string things together as a starting point.

But I don't think they'll get there before Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft all catch up with solutions that developers will give into because of the existing strength of those platforms.

I just asked Siri how the weather was going to look like tomorrow and it responded with: "Temperatures should be high tomorrow." A few years ago it'd say something like: "Nice weather coming up, clear and sunny with a low of 56 and high of 85," which was a lot more descriptive. How is what it says now informative when you're using "Hey, Siri" and not looking at it?