Computer scientists have been working on some of their underlying technologies for more than half a century — so why can't Apple make Siri work better? Here's where virtual assistants came from, where they go wrong, and what the future may hold for them.
Assistant for a local weather report, interacting with these non-human assistants has become normal.
Since then, scientists have started combining these processes with artificial intelligence, a field that itself has been around since the 1950s.Cortana that are able to understand us when we talk.Different kinds of AI "The strong AI mainly deals with the developing systems that can reason or can think or act like a human. Then the other kind is the weak A.I. which is more focused on specific tasks. And this also includes the virtual assistants. We're still very far away from strong AI."
"One of the challenges of Siri is the negative image that they created by over-promising, under-delivering in the early days," says Keyvan Mohajer, the co-founder and CEO SoundHound, a company that offers a virtual assistant that competes with Siri, along with music-recognition technology and voice tools for other companies to use.
"We reject the excuse that getting the most out of technology means trading away your right to privacy," Apple CEO Tim Cook said at a commencement speech at Duke University in 2018.What are people working on, what do they think are really important problems at Apple? We have no idea about that, " says Schluter.
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