The Story of Siri, by its founder [video]

[+] jud_white|11 years ago|reply

Oct 4: Apple launches Siri

Oct 5: Steve Jobs dies

  One kind of side note. On October 5th, Steve Jobs died.
  He had been involved in a lot of the process leading up to it.
  We know that he was watching this launch from his house.
  I don't know what he thought about it, but I like to project
  that he saw it, said "It is good. This is the future, Apple's
  in the middle of it. I can go now." I don't know if that's true,
  but that's a projection that I like to put onto it.

I suppose this is the kind of statement you could expect from the creator of a predictive personal assistant, but wow.

[+] valleyer|11 years ago|reply

I too found this extremely gratuitous.

[+] bsaul|11 years ago|reply

This video should be broadcasted to every politician remotely involved in industry, job creation, research or education (yes, that means probably all of them) to show how a succesful technology really is the (slow) product of an entire ecosystem combined with great minds of all kinds.

[+] tomphoolery|11 years ago|reply

I thought the talk about Siri being a service orchestration engine was pretty interesting. With the growing amount of internet services, and most importantly, services competing within the same domain, perhaps the most interesting web apps of the future will be mostly amalgamating the data between these services in intelligent ways.

[+] ar7hur|11 years ago|reply

Synopsys:

    Walking backward in time, Adam discussed the technical
    history of Siri as well as how the vision of virtual
    personal assistants evolved over time. He wowed the 
    audience with a video from 1987 on a concept from Apple
    where predicted a Siri like device 24 years in the future
    and was only off by 2 weeks.

[+] luxpir|11 years ago|reply

Unfortunately brought 1980s gender prejudices with it. Siri and Cortana defaulting to female voices? Way to miss an opportunity, market leaders.

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