Sources: Robby Walker, one of Apple's most senior AI executives who was in charge of Siri until earlier this year, is leaving the company next month
Apple Inc.'s Robby Walker, one of the iPhone maker's most senior artificial intelligence executives, is leaving the company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
A look at the internal chaos behind Apple's Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea's AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally
Last June, at Apple's annual developers conference, the company offered a dazzling demonstration of how artificial intelligence …
Sources: Tim Cook lost faith in Apple AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development and drafted in Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell to oversee Siri
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : X: @markgurman and @markgurman X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : As I reported last week, Apple is not firing Giannandrea over its AI issues and never considered doing so. Gian...
Apple plans to move a San Diego-based Data Operations Annotations team, responsible for improving Siri's accuracy, to Austin; sources say 121 staff are impacted
- Company will relocate key Siri data operations group to Austin — Employees who can't transfer or find other jobs will be let go
Apple is shutting a 121-person San Diego team of the Data Operations Annotations group, responsible for improving Siri's accuracy, and moving staff to Austin
- Company will relocate key Siri data operations group to Austin — Employees who can't transfer or find other jobs will be let go
Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work”
Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history
Roku hires Brian Pinkerton, who was Apple's chief architect of Siri until November and was previously the CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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Ann Syrdal, AT&T researcher who helped give computers a female voice and laid the groundwork for digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, dies at 74
a much harder result to achieve, in part because so much of the previous engineering work had been done for male voices.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Daniel E. Slotnik / @dslotnik : Without Ann Syrdal...
Bill Stasior, former longtime Apple exec who oversaw Siri, has joined Microsoft as corporate VP of technology, reporting to CTO Kevin Scott
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Ian Goodfellow, known as the father of an AI approach known as generative adversarial networks, has joined Apple in a director role, coming from Google
will a company known for its secrecy step up its efforts to release research publicly? http://twitter.com/... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : !!! Apple poached the GANfather !!! http://www.cnbc.com/... Mars...