The Co-Founder & former CEO of Siri, Dag Kittlaus, says that he “would have liked to see Siri evolve to doing more things, greater capabilities to become a bigger part of your life.” Siri was acquired by Apple in 2010.
Tinder Co-Founder: Siri Might Become a Matchmaker Soon
Tinder Co-Founder Sean Rad, in an interview on stage at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, said that he thinks that as the technology of AI advances that Siri might become a matchmaker soon.
Marriott Using Salesforce Einstein to Reinvent the Hotel Experience
Salesforce Co-founder & CEO Marc Benioff. announced at the Dreamforce conference a new partnership with Marriott that is going to bring the power of artificial intelligence into the hotel room via a phone app.
Historic Breakthrough: Microsoft Reaches Virtual Parity With Human Speech
In an historic breakthrough, Microsoft’s AI team has developed technology that recognizes speech as well as humans. Their research team published a paper (PDF) showing that their speech recognition system makes errors at the same rate as a professional transcriptionists,…
Apple WWDC Date Revealed By Siri
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) hasn’t been formally announced yet, but iOS users have discovered that Siri is giving the date when asked. As reported earlier by 9to5Mac, if you ask Siri, “When is WWDC?” it will tell you that…
Apple Is Trying to Make Voicemail a Little Less Terrible
Voicemail is pretty terrible, and this is a universally-accepted opinion. Except for your mom. You mom loves leaving voicemails. But even mom probably hates listening to voicemails. In fact, phone owners hate most sorts of talking and listening. The word…
Facebook Wants Real People to Help You Order Stuff Inside Messenger
Facebook, currently on a mission to beef up its Messenger platform in a multitude of ways, may just give everyone a personal shopping assistant inside the app. The Information reports that sources familiar with the plans are talking about Facebook’s…
Apple Blames ‘Bug’ for Homophobic Russian Siri
According to Apple, a bug is behind some decidedly anti-gay answers expressed by the Russian version of Siri. Earlier this week, a video called “In Soviet Russia Siri questions you” went viral. In the video, a man named Alex demonstrated…
Siri Thinks Microsoft’s Phone Is Pretty Smart (In This Microsoft Ad)
Typically, Microsoft attacks Google in its ad campaigns (Scroogled, anyone?), especially when it comes to stuff like this, but now, the company has set its sights on Apple. The latest Microsoft ad pits Microsoft’s virtual assistant Cortana (via the Lumia…
Theater Says Siri Will Ruin Your Life If You Talk Or Text During Movie
Movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, known for its strict moviegoing etiquette policies, is showing a humorous new message to patrons, warning them to turn their phones off. It features Siri (apparently doing a John Wayne accent) warning that use of…