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by mcphage 3692 days ago
> I don't understand the confusion on what Apple's next big thing is, they've laid it out time and again. [...] It's the same thing OpenAI, HARC, and other groups are working on: creating revolutionary intelligent assistants and possibly achieving strong AI.

I hope so, but given they released Siri in 2011, and only minimally improved on it since, it doesn't look like they're giving the field much attention. It doesn't look Apple takes it very seriously, and in the meantime Google & Microsoft have released their own superior versions.
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eric_h 3692 days ago
> given they released Siri in 2011, and only minimally improved on it since

It's quite possible that their iterative loop on Siri and Siri-like experiments simply doesn't include the general populace. Apple does not have much of a history of touting beta software and using their customers as guinea pigs, but internally they definitely do.

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mcphage 3692 days ago
It's definitely possible, but I'm not sure why they wouldn't? The data from millions of users from all over the country / world would be a lot better than a small number of users in a single place. And they still push it as a sales feature, so showing real improvement over time sounds like something they would want.

Still, I hope you're right; I do agree that it's a big part of the future, and seeing it flounder is frustrating.

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