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The single useful thing the article could have presented was how or why Cook's/Apple's efforts at AI products will fail while Google's will succeed; how Apple's
by fatbird 10y ago
The single useful thing the article could have presented was how or why Cook's/Apple's efforts at AI products will fail while Google's will succeed; how Apple's AI products will be the Windows Phone of Cook's tenure (or, for that matter, how Windows Phone failed or could have been done differently). Without explaining how apparently similar efforts will yield different outcomes, this is all jazz-hands about CEO personalities and Fortune buzzwords.
- Quequau 10y agoMan, I only have one thing about the pseudo-AI craze that I'd like to hear from Apple to get my business: Seeing how their current top end SoC is so powerful, stop sending all sorts of data to external parties to offload the compute requirements to make stuff like Siri work.
- nicky0 10y agoI thought Apple specifically didn't send your data to external parties. That's one of the reason Siri is behind Google, which does send you data to their servers.
- icebraining 10y agoAFAIK that's not correct, which is why it doesn't work offline. See e.g.: "[Nuance rep] said that Siri has both embedded and cloud technology for voice recognition, but that the feature is overall a cloud solution." http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/nuance-confirms-its-technology-is-behind-apples-siri http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/nuance-confirms-it...
- honkhonkpants 10y agoThat's completely backwards. If you try to use Siri while your phone is offline, it reads "Siri not available / Connect to the Internet." Google's voice system works perfectly well offline. You can dictate, or you can issue commands that don't require network access.
- delinka 10y agoSiri does indeed send your voice requests off to a server to be 'understood.' But, IIRC, it's all Apple-owned with no third parties involved.