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  • Apple acquires AI startup Voysis in apparent push to bolster Siri's natural language skill...

    mr minskymr minsky
    The comments made in this discussion ring very true to me:
    • “it is surprising off often Siri gets triggered accidentally“ cgWerks.
    • “The autocorrect also seems worse” RetroGusto.
    • “the problem is the “I give up” attitude Siri presents. Why not offer to send the results of a search to a screen?” Rayz2016”
    • ...
    It seems that there are 2 domains being discussed, and even if Apple calls both “Siri”, I’m not sure that they really share the same technology. The 1st is the speech inquiry agent triggered with “Hey Siri”, the 2nd is the predictive and autocorrect text agent on keyboards.

    In the 1st case, Siri appears limited in “knowledge”, limited in scope of “action” and limited in “context” understanding.
    ”hey Siri how far have I walked?” (Fail - “I can’t do that, please open the app...”).
    ”hey Siri what song was no.1 in the U.K. charts in January” (Fail - “I cant find the answer to that on HomePod”).
     ... follow up questions, for example “hey Siri, what album was it released on?” (generally fails regardless of the 1st question; Siri seems very limited when “remembering” conversation context).
    etc.

    In the 2nd case, I have noticed a significant decrease in accuracy in autocorrect since iOS 13. Plus, when adding words into an existing sentence, Siri (if this really is Siri) often thinks the new word should start with a capital letter... even in the middle of sentences. That’s just poor.

    Apple purchasing technology companies for their code/tech. or their developer skills can only help (fingers crossed).
    cgWerksStrangeDays