An Exclusive Look at How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple
Steven Levy
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Siri is still very poor. This seems like Apple is in an echo chamber listening to themselves say how great they are. Ask Siri “Michael Phelps” Do you get back something about the most decorated Olympian in history? when you ask during the Olympics? No you get back stats on an NBA guard from the Clippers. If I’m driving and ask Siri for directions to someplace the answer is “OK I found this on the web…” with something unrelated to what I asked for and asked for in many different combinations to make it easy for Siri. It’s unusable except for the contrived examples that make for good marketing, like in this piece. Ask Siri “Prime numbers under 100” and it returns with “Ok i found this on the web…” Google Now returns the thing I’m actually looking for.