[falaki]

When I was hired at Apple/siri more than 10 years ago as a Data Scientist, I was SHOCKED to find that the system beyond speech recognization was rule-based. My team and I attempted multiple times to introduce statistical learning models to siri, so it can improve it with more data. After one year, I was disillusioned and I left Apple.

Several years later former colleagues told me the system was still rule-based! I would not be surprised if it is still that way. That organization was like a mini-dinosaur. There was very little flexibility or openness to new ideas. I am supper happy I left.