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Apple hopes new blood will make Siri intelligent

by on02 April 2018


Human sacrifices begin at the spaceship

Apple has realised that its current pool of software geniuses, who brought you a clock which could not handle summer time or shifting time zones, cannot make their Siri AI program more intelligent and have cracked open the money vault in search of staff who can.

For those who came in late, Siri is light years behind.Amazon's Alexa or Google Assistant – the HomePod can't handle non-music tasks as well as competing smart speakers.

According to Thinknum, Apple has realised that it needs new blood and has been on a Siri-related hiring spree with 161 positions listed as of the end of March.

Nearly all of the new positions are for engineers, and it's notable that some of those spots are meant to tackle Siri's relative weakness in general questions. There are entries for Siri software engineers addressing "General Knowledge" and the "Knowledge Graph".

Other notable recruiting efforts include looking for a machine learning scientist as well as multiple engineers to address areas like Proactive Intelligence - Siri's ability to anticipate information, the SiriKit developer framework and speech generation.

The Tame Apple Press claims this recruiting frenzy means Apple knows Siri needs work, and it's ready to invest in the brain power required to improve its AI helper. Personally, we think that the "new blood" will show up at the spaceship, encounter the banjo-picking fellow developers and either run or be sacrificed to Steve Jobs' spirit in the hope of improving Apple's Siri skills.

 

Last modified on 03 April 2018
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