When the original developers of Siri jumped ship to develop a competing clever assistant called Viv,they dismissed Apple’s implementation of their clever assistant as just ‘a clever AI chatbot. We’ve since heard that Apple plans to offer a Siri SDK that will allow it to call on the capabilities of third-party apps (something I called for final year) – but it seems like the company is also seeking to fade even beyond Viv’s capabilities.
Apple final year acquired British clever assistant developer VocalIQ – a tool specifically geared to truly conversational queries – and a source who spoke to Business Insider gave some insight into just how clever Siri could become when infused with this tech … more…
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Source: 9to5mac.com