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> The company, which last week turned two, just hired its first data scientist, and it’s looking to invest in artificial intelligence. Butterfield acknowledges
by mikhailt 11y ago
> The company, which last week turned two, just hired its first data scientist, and it’s looking to invest in artificial intelligence. Butterfield acknowledges the challenge, saying his company will need partners with major AI capability.
> “Apple spent billions of dollars on Siri and worked on it for a very long time with hundreds of engineers and a huge dataset of voices – and it’s f–ing idiotic. Siri is nearly useless,” he says. Apple declined comment.
He doesn't yet have a solution and what he does is talk trash about an actual product that does exist and for many people, does work as expected for their own needs.
Right, all he did was lose creditability for me. It makes me think he's using Apple's name to hype his nonexistent bullshit up.
Show us your solution or STFU.
- GuiA 11y agoWelcome to Silicon Valley. Read most interviews with startup founders and the "visionaries", and you'll find plenty of that kind of rhetoric. "industry X is completely outdated", "product Y is absolutely worthless", etc. when industry X and product Y typically have the merits of 1) existing for more than 12 months before being acquired by $MEGACORP and 2) being of use to more people than the few lucky San Francisco residents with high Twitter follower counts that were accepted in the startup's private beta. I was talking with a San Francisco teacher last week who was telling me about all the different partnerships her school has done with startups, and how they all had 2 things in common: they only added more work for the teachers without providing much benefits, and they thought they knew better than anyone. Nothing to see here. To quote Torvalds, "talk is cheap, show me the code".