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Siri processes 10 billion requests a month, Apple said at its annual software developers conference on Monday.
The company didn’t reveal the breakdown, but I’m fairly confident in my math here:
Five billion requests to set an alarm
Three billion requests for the same thing, because Siri didn’t understand it the first time
Two billion not-actual-requests, triggered by somebody saying, “Seriously”
Sure, the formerly cutting-edge virtual assistant has become the butt of many a tech joke, but Apple’s Siri problem is only getting bigger. As Amazon and Google develop artificial-intelligence assistants that can do tasks small (set multiple cooking timers) and large (hold conversations with you and others), Siri has been stuck saying, “Here’s what I found on the Web for that.”
The problem crystallized with the HomePod: Apple’s Siri-powered smart speaker just isn’t particularly smart. At Apple’s biggest software event of the year Monday, just four months after HomePod’s release, the speaker was mentioned only once.
Apple does have some new ideas about what Siri should do for us when iOS 12 launches for iPhones and iPads in the fall: We’ll be able to program strings of tasks. A single custom phrase will, say, shut off the lights, turn down the thermostat and launch a podcast.
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Siri processes 10 billion requests a month, Apple said at its annual software developers conference on Monday.
The company didn’t reveal the breakdown, but I’m fairly confident in my math here:
Five billion requests to set an alarm
Three billion requests for the same thing, because Siri didn’t understand it the first time
Two billion not-actual-requests, triggered by somebody saying, “Seriously”
Sure, the formerly cutting-edge virtual assistant has become the butt of many a tech joke, but Apple’s Siri problem is only getting bigger. As Amazon and Google develop artificial-intelligence assistants that can do tasks small (set multiple cooking timers) and large (hold conversations with you and others), Siri has been stuck saying, “Here’s what I found on the Web for that.”
The problem crystallized with the HomePod: Apple’s Siri-powered smart speaker just isn’t particularly smart. At Apple’s biggest software event of the year Monday, just four months after HomePod’s release, the speaker was mentioned only once.
Apple does have some new ideas about what Siri should do for us when iOS 12 launches for iPhones and iPads in the fall: We’ll be able to program strings of tasks. A single custom phrase will, say, shut off the lights, turn down the thermostat and launch a podcast.
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