Bye Siri, Says Apple AI's Last Remaining Founder

Tom Gruber, the last of three Siri voice assistant co-founders still at Apple, has retired from his role as head of Siri's Advanced Development group, The Information reports. From a report: The 59-year-old will pursue personal interests in photography and ocean conservation, the publication said citing unnamed sources. Gruber's departure comes as the Siri group is seeing a major haul in its leadership under new boss John Giannandrea, formerly Google's head of AI and search. Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, with whom Gruber founded the original Siri Inc before it was bought over by Apple in 2010, left the iPhone maker years ago in 2011 and 2012 respectively.

At 59? I'd have been out sooner

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

In fact, I plan to be, though my net worth is still probably only a fraction of these folks. There's only so long anyone should really want to work for someone else.

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[DontBeAMoran]

Photo clubs usually are just equipment masturbation - BORING!

I bet the Realdoll clubs really are into equipment masturbation.

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[swb]

I'd wager "ocean conversation" could be an altruistic version of yachting.

Managing a long-endurance ocean research vessel and coordinating their research sounds like a great way to fill all of your time plus more, not to mention a lot of social contact even at sea.

I think the bigger problem for people who retire is that they seldom have the resources to plunge into a hobby immersive enough to fill their time. Too many people count on creativity or something else to stretch their limited resources and fill

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[cayenne8]

Only if you have plenty of activities and social time with people - real people; not social media pseudo-relationships. I see it all the time. People retire or lose jobs for whatever reason and they fall apart - having plenty of money in the bank makes no difference. They become depressed and drunks. All the expensive anti-depressants in the World don't make up for being lonely. (Depression is a symptom; not an illness)

The people who have plenty of outside meaningful (to them) activities with other peopl

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[Darinbob]

Yes and no. Work can be a substitute for a social life, but on the other hand work is a major time consumer and source of stress. For me, I just don't have time for many outside interests while working full time. And the longer I go at work the more stressed out I get, so I can only imagine that retirement would be good for my health. However I won't necessarily have the money to retire anytime soon and may find myself still working part time just to make ends meet.

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[DontBeAMoran]

Did you mean this [google.com]?

Clippy 2.0

[Anonymous Coward]

You seem to be making a resign letter, would you like some help with that ?

Bye bye English

[Lije Baley]

"from a report"
"major haul"
"bought over"
Bye bye editing.

This is a total non-story

[Applehu Akbar]

It’s about one guy retiring. Meanwhile, in iOS 12 Siri, which up to now has been a voice macro system for Apple stock apps, will be opened up for third-party use. This is when thing will start to get interesting.

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[tlhIngan]

Itâ(TM)s about one guy retiring. Meanwhile, in iOS 12 Siri, which up to now has been a voice macro system for Apple stock apps, will be opened up for third-party use. This is when thing will start to get interesting.

Siri already is open for third party use. Not sure when (iOS 10 or 11), but any developer can use SiriKit to add functionality to Siri.

The fun part is I believe because of Apple, the recognition is happening as much as possible on-device, though it needs a trip to the cloud in case the reco

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[AvitarX]

Apple's privacy is also a weekness though. It makes it far harder for their machines to learn (less data to use), and less easy to use information about the requestor to tune the answer.

It'll be interesting to see which model works (more effective but evil (Google) vs less effective and less creepy (Apple).

As a user, thus far I am siding with evil, but it's starting to make me uncomfortable.

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[thebullshitpatrol]

Siri Shortcuts is more like AppleScript.

Don't care

[DontBeAMoran]

Siri, Alexa and other fucking intruding so-called A.I. crap are not worth the constant spying.

There's only two persons I wish would leave Apple:
- Tim Cook, the bean-counter CEO who doesn't care about Macs
- Jony Ive, the let's-make-everything-thinner designer who keeps making Macs worst every fucking year

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