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Siri was under jobs. He saw AI before everyone else
by thenanyu 7mo ago
Siri was under jobs. He saw AI before everyone else
- ubercore 7mo agoI know it is actually AI, but calling Siri AI vs the current state of the art is... generous.
- cubefox 7mo agoSiri was GOFAI (handwritten software) rather than a model written by a machine learning algorithm.
- uncivilized 7mo agoCalling the current state of art AI is also generous.
- ivanjermakov 7mo agoAI talks started before Jobs was born...
- throwawaymobule 7mo agoSiri was already an iphone/android app before Apple bought it, to be fair.
- eloisant 7mo agoThe problem with the word "AI" is that it's a broad term with fuzzy borders depending on who you ask. But no matter what definition you take Siri was not the first AI. It's a classical cases of Apple fans thinking Apple invented everything because they saw it first in an Apple product... If you think about AI in broad terms, it goes back to the 1970's where any skill computers gained originally thought as only human was called AI. Like playing chess. If you think about the recent use of AI = LLM chatbots/gen AI, Siri wasn't an LLM.
- russelldjimmy 7mo ago> It's a classical cases of Apple fans thinking Apple invented everything because they saw it first in an Apple product. This is a classic case of thinking that inventing something before others is all that matters, while ignoring that finding a mass market use-case for an existing technology is also important.
- kergonath 7mo ago> But no matter what definition you take Siri was not the first AI. It's a classical cases of Apple fans thinking Apple invented everything because they saw it first in an Apple product... That’s a point you are very unlikely to see being made. Apple famously bought the startup that was making Siri. They didn’t even change the name.