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John Giannandra, former head of Google's Research and Artificial Intelligence Division, will lead Apple's Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence business, which means the 53-year-old Scottish engineer will oversee the company's business. team working on Core ML and Siri.
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As it is pointed out, it is now important for Apple to maintain its leadership in the world's most advanced applications, and the Core ML is an Apple Training System for applications that help developers to easily run artificial intelligence tools on mobile devices.
In addition, the specialist will continue to work on language and word processing technology. In particular, such a feature is used by Apple in Siri
The work that Gannandrea will deal with falls under the category of "natural language understanding" or NLU, a subdomain of artificial intelligence designed to teach computers the understanding of human language
. the engineer himself, in such work there are many challenges, but it is the most fascinating part of artificial intelligence. In 2017, in an interview, he even mentioned the understanding of natural language as "the holy grail for applied artificial intelligence."
As pointed out in the material, Siri was introduced in 2011, but since then , the development of this idle glossary assistant, and now it looks like an answering machine. In addition, Siri can not compete with well-known voice assistants like Amazon Alexa or Google. In response, Apple has repeatedly criticized the fact that Siri completely disagrees with modern requirements.
Let's add that before switching to Apple, John Jannandrea worked for eight years at Google, where he also taught computer science
. , that he is the founder of start-ups Tellme Networks and Metaweb Technologies. For example, the first managed phone line that used voice recognition to respond to customer requests for things like the weather and the stock market. Today, Google has decided to adopt the same. one of the interesting approaches of Apple – combine all devices in a single ecosystem. The new project was named Better Together
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