apple exec overseeing siri departs role

Stasior was recruited from Amazon in 2012 to Siri following the departure of Siri co-founders Adam Cheyer and Dag Kittlaus.   Cheyer and Kittlaus had joined Apple and did not stay long..., Stasior has stepped down from his role as leader of Siri except has not left Apple.   The leadership is part of effort by John Giannandrea, Apple's president of machine learning and AI strategy.   Giannandrea joined Apple April 2018 and at the time, that he would be overseeing both Core ML and Siri teams.   Prior to joining Apple, Giannandrea spent eight years at Google, and in the time before that, he founded two companies, Tellme Networks and Metaweb Technologies..   Giannandrea's hiring came criticism of Siri, Amazon, and Google.   Apple made serious strides improving Siri in 2018 under Giannandrea's leadership, building out the capabilities of the AI assistant with features like Siri Shortcuts iOS 12...   Siri still ca not even place calls to contacts, instead you get, 'Here's what I found on the web for XXX Voice recognition is right up there with Dragon Dictate circa 1993 'hey siri turns into 'hold the button, and on and on..   We're seeing number of reports across Reddit and Twitter from iOS 11 users.   We also boast community focused on purchasing decisions and technical aspects of iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Mac platforms..   Read more