[achates]

Calling it an AI team gives the wrong impression imo, these aren't researchers or engineers.

>The group, which also has offices in China, India, Ireland and Spain, is responsible for improving Siri by listening to queries to the voice service and determining if it heard and handled questions accurately. The announcement to close the San Diego group was made by Christine DeFilippo, a top deputy to Apple AI chief John Giannandrea, the people said.

This sounds like a low level position that wouldn't be worth moving for.

[zzzeek]

So "AI" exists solely because of researchers and engineers, and nobody else ? All those contract employees OpenAI hired in Kenya to vet tens of thousands of hours of often horrific and traumatizing content? Surely they were, in some of course very lowly, unworthy of mention way still working....for "AI" ?