Lag in artificial intelligence
Apple employees ‘mocked’ Siri
Former Apple employees have reported organizational problems and a lack of ambition internally to improve the popular voice assistant and its AI technology.
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Siri lags behind the competition.
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According to many users of Apple products like iPhone, Siri Not at the level of other competing virtual assistants. Opinion also clearly shared internally. According to about thirty former Apple employees heard by The Information, the virtual assistant is “widely derided” within the company. These former Apple employees decry an “organizational flaw and lack of ambition” at Apple that has slowed development of the utility and technology that has driven it in recent years. Consequently, Apple has fallen behind the competition, particularly in terms of artificial intelligence, an area in which US startup OpenAI has made a notable break with its chatbot. chat.
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In particular, the specialized site notes that three engineers who have worked on developing Siri since 2019 have preferred to leave the company, criticizing its overly slow and conservative decisions. join Google, the web giant It is a better company to work on large language models (LLMs), such as those that make it possible to run chat.
According to the certification, Apple did not want to invest in tools to analyze the use of Siri by its users. Additionally, executives have been reluctant to integrate conversational capabilities into Siri, lest they lose control over the responses the voice assistant provides. Chairman Tim Cook and other executives preferred to have pre-written answers selected by a team of about 20 people.
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