Re:Siri is the Next Big Thing
by Geee on Friday October 14, 2011 @09:53AM
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No matter how innovative company Apple is, I wouldn't give them credit just because they bought Siri and integrated it into iOS. I somehow find it odd that no one was talking about Siri before Apple's blessing, although it has existed for many years. It has been constantly evolving, and would have without Apple. There's lots of information about Siri available and the vision and goal of the project has been clear all along.
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Re:Siri is the Next Big Thing
by incremental on Friday October 14, 2011 @09:57AM
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Does Google deserve no credit for Android since they bought that? I presume Apple has done some work on Siri since they bought it over a year ago...
I'd like to credit all those researchers in the original CALO project, and all the hardworking AI scientist all over the world, who have made the evolution of AI to a concrete product possible. If we begin to talk about artificial intelligence revolution, Apple has nothing to do with it in my opinion.
And we mustn't forget Maxwell, Ada Lovelace, Euclid, Plato, Roger Bacon, and the medieval monks. It's always important to trace back credit for any product from Apple to someone who isn't Apple.
Taking an impressive but not all that practical technology demo and integrating it into devices that are going to be in millions of people's hands deserves some credit. The major part of the credit goes to those who developed the technology, of course, but identifying the technology as practical for the masses and getting it out to them is important too.