I suspect that Apple's very private Siri will improve a lot when they manage to put a lot of Siri's language recognition on a chip integrated into our iPhones. I do hear that work is underway on this. But tediously underperforming meanwhile! Harry
> On 18 Jun 2017, at 18:51, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Some of the problems with Siri have to do with privacy, and apples insistence > on it, where as Google is quite the opposite. So there are some trade-offs > here. I do also wish that Siri would become better, but not at the expense of > my data going to any Tom Dick and Harry who wants to buy it from Google or > Google using it for their own purposes, which are all about advertising. We > need a happy medium here we're privacy is first, but robust AI is also > possible. I'm hoping that's what all these new hires will do for Apple > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 18, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> I know that they are reporting this just as they are reporting how Apple has >> and is hiring experts in autonomous/self-driving car technology. As far as >> SIRI goes, however, I want them to show that they are making some progress, >> it just seem sso ignorant that they are just not really improving SIRI but >> they of course know that is what everybody wants. >> >> >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Kevin Chao >> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 10:35 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: New siri voices in IOS 11 >> >> Has already happend and will continue too...Apple has doubled-down on >> artificial intelligence/machine learning: they’ve acquired and continue to >> lots of talent in this domain. >> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 9:59 PM Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> Great idea, let’s tell Apple to fire SIRI and hire the Google Assistant away >> from Google, after all, it’s not the first time Apple hired away talent from >> Google or other companies. >> . >> >> >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Kevin Chao >> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 9:12 PM >> >> To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Re: New siri voices in IOS 11 >> >> I’m surprised to see so much attention devoted towards the more expressive >> Siri voices. I view it as a nice touch to the presnetaiton layer, but the >> structure and interaction, specifically with understanding, context, and >> meaningful intelligence has a lot to be desired. The only advantage Siri has >> is that it was first, but all other voice-based assistants are smarter, >> helpful, and useful. However, to be fair, even the best of the “Assistants” >> today would not last as a human Assistant in a job. We’ve been promised a >> bright future with the voice user interfaces, but a lot more resources and >> time needs to be realized before the “Year Million” is our reality. >> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:59 PM christopher hallsworth >> <challswor...@icloud.com> wrote: >> No, just the public beta software program. >> > On 14 Jun 2017, at 22:26, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> > >> > Did you seriously pay money to sign up for a developer account? In two or >> > at the most 3 weeks you could get the first public beta for free. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> > Of christopher hallsworth >> > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 12:42 PM >> > To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> > Subject: Re: New siri voices in IOS 11 >> > >> > And I'm not, *yet*. All I will say is, I have just signed up. >> >> On 13 Jun 2017, at 18:11, Jenifer Barr <claudas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Ming. >> >> Even if this is true people beta testing IOS 11 cannot discuss. 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