It is, however, the state of the art of the personal assistant. Point is, while Apple's idea is clever, the polish and packaging good and the marketing cleverest, but it is absolutely not start of the art artificial intelligence,Īgreed. Give it a cute name and throw in some smart ass answers to inevitable cheeky questions and Apple has fooled a lot of people, clearly. Point is, while Apple's idea is clever, the polish and packaging good and the marketing cleverest, but it is absolutely not start of the art artificial intelligence, it's the sorry state of artificial stupidity, and why we have little to fear in the way of robot uprisings yet. they've done exactly that, it's called Iris Alpha from a firm called, and it took eight hours. It is so obvious that a bunch of coders at a hackathon could put something similar together in a few hours and have a demo of the same thing. What's worse is Apple probably managed to get a patent or two on Siri. FaceTime for example, is mere video calling which many phones support, but nobody uses. The only part about that is right is Apple's sucess at re-launching things that have been around for a while as something new, and actually getting people to use them. Indeed voice commands have been in many phones for a while, Android has had it, including dictation, since the dawn of the time. If you call such a remix of off-the-shelf tech and existing services state-of-the art AI then you must be joking. It's voice recognition feed into some search engines, Wolfram Alpha, Yelp and some snippets from Wikipedia and the result plays through text to speech, mashed up with voice commands. I just choked on my cup of tea reading that. "Virtually overnight, Siri, the personal assistant technology in Apple's new iPhone 4S, has brought state-of-the-art AI to the consumer mainstream."
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