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Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by eridius on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @08:43PM (#12602519)
At WWDC they talked about how they put AI all throughout the system. It's not just when talking to Siri. It's things like suggested apps, photo tagging, deciding when to refresh apps in the background, text prediction, and probably lots of other stuff that I can't even think of because Apple's approach to AI is to make AI largely an implementation detail of the experience rather than a user-visible component.
Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by tomnipotent on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @09:39PM (#12602740)
>> Apple's approach to AI is to make AI largely an implementation detail of the experience rather than a user-visible component.

That sums it up nicely, I'm a bit embarrassed those features didn't cross my mind when thinking about Apple/AI. Reinforces your point - its use in invisible, much like their presence in this consortium.

Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by wstrange on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:37PM (#12602950)
Apple makes great stuff (typing this on a Mac), but I really don't get the adoration / mystic that surrounds them.

Those features have been on Android forever, but people don't call it "AI".

Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by madeofpalk on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @11:26PM (#12603106)
Right, which begs the question "What is AI?"
Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne... by eridius on Thursday September 29, 2016 @02:22PM (#12607589)
In this context, "AI" means "using techniques that come from the field of AI research", such as convolutional neural networks and whatnot.