Hi, The 2 guys who founded Siri, sold Siri to Apple, and continue to work with Apple in some capacity were interviewed on the CBS This Morning show this morning.
IN a new endeavor, they are working on expanded virtual intelligence with a new assistant termbed Vib. Apparently, this will be available to some in some capacity later this year. They said it should expand virtual assistance from the current several dozen capabilities as available in Siri to "thousands" within Vib using something they termed conversational communication ( I may have the second term wrong). Apparetly it's based on the Watson platform IBM used to win at Jeopardy. Not surprisingly, they talked in quite expansive terms, but at least it sounds as if more capabilities will be hitting the streets within months to several years. It's important to note they were talking about their new endeavor, and didn't tie it in to an Apple partnership in any way. Keith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 11:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Hey Siri irritation I hope they fix SIRI seems to be very inconsistent. For years I always said "Call my office" when I wanted to call my store. I of course have my own contact card with work and cell number and this was never a problem. Yesterday I said "Call my office" as I always do and SIRI came back and said "I don't have a phone number for Doris - office". I have a contact with first name Doris, but I tried it several times throughout the day clearly pronouncing my request and each time I got the Doris thing. I say "Call my work" and it's fine. I just tried it again and again I get the reply that it doesn't have a phone number for Doris - Office". Well, at least it's now consistent about not having a phone number for Doris! Another example is this: I ask SIRI "Look for nearby restaurants". It starts telling me about restaurants it found and as Mary said, each time it will ask "Is this the one you want?". If I say "Yes" it will then say "Great, I can call this location or give you directions, which do you want". Let's say I want to call so I say "Call". Usually it will then go ahead and call, but a few weeks ago and for at least a week or two each time I said "Call" after it asked, SIRI would then come back and ask "Who do you want to call" as if it forgot that it just found a business for me and asked if I wanted to call it. Lately this has been working correctly again, but as I said, SIRI is very limited in some of what it can do and even in what it can do it's often inconsistent. It will be interesting to see how it will be in the fall when the Apple servers have to handle many more requests because of all the additional things people will ask SIRI to do with respect to those apps that can make use of SIRI. I just listened to the Apple Byte podcast and Brian Tong said while SIRI is available to developers in a limited fashion in iOS 10 and may be able to do a few more things, he feels that it is not actually going to get "smarter" as in being able to handle more complex or layered requests. Maybe it will next year, but I think for now the gap between SIRI and other artificial intelligence personal assistants will continue to grow. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 9:36 AM To: VIPhone 'RobH. ' via <[email protected]> Subject: Hey Siri irritation I hope they fix Here is something I do not understand about Siri. This happens a lot for me. If I ask Siri for either the phone number or the specific address of a business located on such and such a Street, Siri always comes back and says something like I found one on such and such a Street. Is that the one you want? It is the one I asked for. Why does Siri need to ask me if what I just asked for is what I want? This is the opposite of an intelligent assistant. Mary Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. 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