Well in the article it stated that "Siri brings in 1 billion queries per week from users" so that's nothing to sneeze at. But the real challenge is the majority of those queries are probably pretty simple queries that Siri doesn't/can't learn from - she already answers them fine. You need alternative data sets (such as the one generated by mechanical turk) to really learn anything new.
But datasets are only 1 part of the problem - innovate, sophisticated and tuned approaches to solving these problems often make the difference.
Google doesn't have massively more data than Apple.
Apple has been crawling the web for a few years now to power their suggested sites feature on Safari. And they also have access to Maps, Siri searches and all the data sources they linked to power it.
It's an advantage but not a massive nor insurmountable one.
Re:Apple's VocalIQ AI
by colemickens on Friday May 27, 2016 @08:03PM
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And Google has literally all of that, plus all of Google Search plus all of Hangouts plus all of Gmail plus all of Google Voice (with voicemail).
I still think it's safe to imply that Google has a massive leg up on the data-side when compared to Apple, not to mention the today-comparison of Now vs Siri.
Right. Google Now and Siri aren't even in the same realm right now and Google has access to massively more data than Apple. I'm not holding my breath.