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Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Where is Siri Going in being a Better Assistant?

Where is Apple's assistant Siri going?   Has been hard to figure that out lately.  Watched for that in the recent WWDC meeting.   I like the fact that they are implying Siri will follow some kind of process goal in context, like humans do.    Am I right in that?

Siri’s next frontier is human intelligence, not AI  
In iOS 12, Apple will let users and third-party companies make Siri more useful, in a way that won’t replace AI but might effectively complement it.
By Harry McCracken in Fastcompany

A few days before Apple’s keynote at Monday’s WWDC, I declared that no aspect of the company’s announcements would matter more than the news relating to Siri. Though Apple did end up devoting a fair amount of the two-hour presentation to its voice assistant, the new developments were less of a showcase for AI than I expected. Nor did they overshadow the morning’s other reveals relating to iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and tvOS. Still, Siri is going to get a meaningfully new direction when iOS 12 ships this fall.

The key is a new feature called shortcuts, akin to the “routines” in Google’s Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa. Shortcuts will let you set Siri up to perform an action or series of actions when it hears you speak a particular command. (You’ll be able to choose from a library of shortcuts or roll your own, and will be able to initiate a shortcut by tapping as well as speaking.) These actions will be able to dig into the functionality of a third-party app: Apple’s examples included a shortcut which lets you use a Tile locator gizmo to find your keys, and another which allows you to pull up travel information from within the Kayak App.   ... " 

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