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> > Apple has a ridiculous, almost unfathomably deep moat for training and running [LLMs]... > Do they? I can completely fathom, given my own anecdotal experie
by gumby 4y ago
> > Apple has a ridiculous, almost unfathomably deep moat for training and running [LLMs]...
> Do they? I can completely fathom, given my own anecdotal experiences, how garbage Siri quality is today.
Siri is a dead end. When Jobs bought Siri (what, 10 years ago?) he explicitly junked almost all the AI back end, mainly buying the speech recognition engine. I didn't understand why and still don't (but strangely he didn't ask me :-).
John Giannandrea has run Apple's AI effort for the past five or six years. He is the reason Google has a big AI effort (he consolidated a bunch of AI projects and bought Deep Mind, etc) before he decamped for Apple. For all I know the Siri team isn't even part of his remit.
You can never look into Apple (even if you work there) so one can only speculate based on what visible signs appear. But Siri isn't one of them.
- duped 4y agoJobs has been dead for over ten years
- gumby 4y agoAnd it feels like nobody has worked on it since then
- abudabi123 4y agoThe cinema industry know how to squeeze a billion dollar a year out of Apple. Do the Apple or Sony ”social engineers“ have total view? When Amazon was sky rocketing and Blue Origin had not reached orbit a niche producer from the cinema industry had Jeff B paying a lot although he might have backed out of that deal like giving up on the Android phone with a lot of cameras.
- dev_tty01 4y ago>When Amazon was sky rocketing and Blue Origin had not reached orbit... Blue Origin still has not reached orbit.
- sidibe 4y ago> He is the reason Google has a big AI effort (he consolidated a bunch of AI projects and bought Deep Mind, etc) before he decamped for Apple I'm sure he's great but this made me laugh
- gumby 4y agoI aim to please! (And yes he’s a great guy)