“The deal is another major indicator of growing trust in Google’s accelerating AI agenda and comeback against OpenAI. In 2025, the search giant logged its best year since 2009 and surpassed Apple in market capitalization last week for the first time since 2019.” Read more >>
Tag: Siri
Apple details AI to help voice assistants recognize hotwords and multilingual speakers
“Siri virtual assistant is used by over 500 million customers worldwide. Employing a graph neural network (GNN)..,the coauthors say they managed to mitigate 87% of false triggers. In a recent study commissioned by the Washington Post, popular smart speakers made by Google and Amazon were 30% less likely to understand non-American accents” https://www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2020/02/03/apple-details-ai-to-help-voice-assistants-recognize-hotwords-and-multilingual-speakers/amp/
Former Siri chief is leaving Apple to join Microsoft’s AI division
Bill Stasior http://linkedin.com/in/billstasior “Bill Stasior, the former head of Apple’s Siri division, is leaving the company after nearly a decade to join Microsoft’s artificial intelligence division, reports The Information.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/8/19/20812981/apple-siri-bill-stasior-leaving-company-microsoft-joining-ai-cortana
APPLE’S NEW AI CHIEF TAKES ON OVERSIGHT OF SIRI
“Apple listed John Giannandrea on the site as its first Chief of Machine Learning and AI Strategy. He’s in charge of AI and machine learning, a potent type of AI software, across the whole company. Prior to Apple, Giannandrea was a top AI executive at Alphabet’s Google. He joins Apple after several years of complaints…
Analysts Say Siri Has Gotten Smarter, But Lags The Competition
“Gene Munster and Will Thompson, two researchers from Loup Ventures, tested Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, Siri and Google Assistant. They found that Siri correctly answered 74.6 percent of the 800 questions administered. Alexa answered 72.5 percent correctly, Cortana answered 63.4 percent and Google Assistant scored the highest at 87.9 percent.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2018/siri-google-assistant-smart-speakers-artificial-intelligence/amp/