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Messina: Conversational software is a paradigm spanning chat and voice platforms
“It's about conversational software as being a new paradigm for releasing and launching services, features, and tools in a way that previously people didn't have that expectation. And so that's the shift that I see in terms of this new runtime and that those co…”
Evans: Google and OpenAI cannot reliably execute Apple's Siri vision
“I mean, Google, I don't think Google or OpenAI could deliver the Siri demo that Apple gave two years ago. I mean, they could really do the demo, but they couldn't like consistently reliably make it work.”
Chen: App discovery shifts from home screens to voice assistants like Siri
“If you think about how do you find applications and content, we've gone from, well, the start button on your desktop OS controls that, right? You hit the start button and applications show up. Then we went to mobile, which was your home screen controls that, r…”
Dabkowski: Apple's Siri fails to cross threshold of realistic human emotion
“It sounds more realistic, but again, it doesn't cross that threshold of actually sounding like a human and actually making you feel something.”
Sinofsky: 1990s Stanford research predicted politeness toward modern AI assistants
“So like today, we all say thank you to Siri and Alexa, not even thinking about it. Well, they showed that, they demonstrated that, 25 years ago. That it was, that was what was going to happen, and it was just sort of the way that people do that.”
Evans: Siri performs well on Apple TV due to narrow search domain
“Siri should work well here because it's such a kind of a narrow domain. It doesn't have to deal with any question you could possibly ask. It's just got to, like, do voice recognition, like, I want to watch Guardians of the Galaxy. It's not hard.”
Chan: WeChat features a Siri-like voice assistant returning visual outputs
“And there's another, almost like a Siri type product that lives inside WeChat right now. So you can send it an audio message and it will show you a visual response.”