![]() For example, in one convoluted example in the video, Kittlaus asked Viv ‘ Will it be warmer than 70-degrees near the Golden Gate Bridge after 5pm the day after tomorrow?’ It parses all the different elements of the query and reduces it down to something it can understand. Viv starts by trying to determine the intention of your request. This is why Siri co-founders Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer refer to Apple’s implementation of Siri rather dismissively as merely ‘a clever AI chatbot.’ But there’s relatively limited intelligence in the way it works. If you ask Siri whether you’ll need an umbrella in London tonight (you will, by the way), Siri queries a weather database to determine the answer. Some of those responses of course contain variables. Sure, Siri gives the impression of being a little more clever than that, because it often has multiple responses for the same query, so it feels more human-like and less robotic, but at its heart it’s a simple database of queries and responses. Someone had to sit down and think of all the different questions Siri might be asked, and all the different phrasings that might be used, and provide a response to each of them. What most distinguishes Viv from Siri is that all of Siri’s queries and responses are hard-coded. If you haven’t yet watched the video, I highly recommend doing so. WHEN WILL HIPCHAT FOR MAC GETTING POLL FEATURE FULLThe result was that a full third of the team left Apple to create a brand new intelligent assistant that would do all of the things they weren’t allowed to do with Siri: Viv. Yesterday, we got our first look at the result to date – and it’s incredibly impressive. Since then, the team found itself increasingly frustrated at the growing gulf between its ambitions for the service and the far more modest capabilities Apple allowed it to introduce. At the time it bought Siri, it had the team strip out support for all the third-party apps originally integrated with the service – some 45 in total – and launch without them. The team’s goal was ‘to reinvent mobile commerce itself.’Īpple, for whatever reason, disagreed. For example, in telling Siri that you wanted a car to collect six of you from your office, it would talk directly to Uber’s servers to make the booking for you. Rather than simply ask Siri to call on third-party apps to carry out tasks, they wanted to cut out the middleman and integrate directly with the underlying services themselves. If Apple offered an API to allow third-party developers to take advantage of Siri, I’m confident that many would do so. And I’m certainly not alone in wanting that – in our poll, 95% of you agreed with me.īut it turns out that Siri’s original developers wanted to take things a step further … I could name many other examples, but you get the idea. I can’t ask it to translate ‘Where is the nearest pharmacy’ into Mandarin. I can’t ask it to post something to a Hipchat or Slack chatroom. I can’t ask it to show me today’s Timehop, nor can I ask it to post that to Facebook. W hat I can’t yet do is ask the time of my next train home, despite having an app on my phone that can answer that question. There are countless apps where I’d love to be able to get Siri to do the heavy lifting, as I wrote last year in a Feature Request: I dictate most of my messages, and if it’s possible to ask Siri to do something for me rather than doing it myself, I do.īut Siri does have one major failing: it has no access to third-party apps. As I’ve often noted, it’s my primary means of interacting with my iPhone (part of the reason I don’t need a larger screen). As long-time readers will know, I’ve long been a fan of Siri. ![]()
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