@@willi1978 But there isn't the option to not get disturbed. Unless you put your phone on silent which, unfortunately with most phones, means opting out of all calls including the really important emergency calls. Then again, any call from Steve Jobs is a really important emergency call :).
Not really. But the interviewer over emphasised the question. I think that's what threw him off. If you walk into Mcdonald and super excited about ordering Salad, it will throw off the cashier also.
Joe S nah it was a pretty dumb question. Like obviously it’s genderless, you can set the voice to be male or female, and at the end of the day it’s a goddamn robot.
That was just a light-hearted question to confirm/deny a story of Jobs asking Siri what is its gender, no talk of sexuality. I asked the same question to my iPhone 4S and I get various answers depending on Siri's settings. _Animals and French pronouns have gender. I do not._ _I have no gender._ _That does not matter._
i stopped using siri after midnight when, for the *second time*, it dialed my mother at 3 am when i asked it to set a timer while i was cooking something
i think this dude is right in voice assistants still not being something used in a way he and Jobs envisioned. If Jobs was still alive, this guy would have shared the same level as Jony Ive. that’s where Cook is missing the boat... and only now has started to prioritized it’s importance to iOS/Mac
Cook is making movies, entertainment, even apple events are entertainment now, no more following idea of "great tools to help us"(focus on extérieur apple as companies) no more on human, help or care ! Steev said we have 100 ideas and juste 30 of them are great and we need to say to other 70% no, to stay focus and dedicate 100% of us in them (that was work as responsible company) Not doing what comes juste because apple can, its really bad for future generation, great tools turn for them as just entertainment ! They coud rather movies, why not have a platform of get knowledge and pay few € par months, with great teachers..... But they are going pro and normal confused totally no more simple and useful just like another company but on larger level !!
@@carholic-sz3qv How can he improve, companies should do that. They both are useless as of now, you don't need to show such love towards digital assistance.
Siri isn’t useless. Blind people probably rely a lot on it. Also truck drivers like myself use it for various things like knowing the weather, temperature, distance between places, calculator, creating notes, setting alarms/timers, playing music, etc. All of these things without touching our phones.
@@thereviewer4173 Yeah, those are something even Bixby can do. Just because there is no perfect alternative on iPhones, people use siri. Or else Google Assistant or Alexa takes the cake.
emily chang is really engaging during the conversation she is so enthusiastic,love the show this guy is quite articulate as well and of course he know what he's doing love the guy love the interviewer well done bloomberg.
This guy is smart, it’s not his fault that Siri sucks. The potential of Siri is huge but Apple don’t seem interested in developing it. Apple is still using iOS in its iPad pros for example.... man, the iPad should run OSX.
Hi Siri. Can you tell me the nearest Pizza Hut? Siri gave me the address of one located in a German city. And I live in Malaysia. And there was one Pizza Hut about 3 KM near my house. That was the first day and last day I used it.
@@samferr16 Siri does stupid things. I use Siri but some of the things it does are ridiculous. I call my significant other every day after work and yet Siri will still try to call random people in my contacts I've not been in touch with for years. She seems biased towards tails when flipping a coin, why? She'll offer me addresses in another state. She can't answer obvious things or you have to be too precise in asking about things as simple as the weather. I studied and did AI programming in the past. The hard part then was natural language processing but Apple are clearly very lazy when it comes to parsing statements. It's badly missed opportunity even if you're not collecting data on the user.
Siri is 1st generation voice assistant it has not improved whatsoever. Whenever I ask Siri a question it always tells to google it or bring me google search. Alexa is by far better than Siri.
You just know he was coached on that gender question. He probably wanted to say 'we gave it a women name and voice..." plus its a robot who cares but if he says that people get all butt hurt.
Nah not really. Steve Jobs asked what gender is Siri. He didnt like the name but couldn't come up with anything better. The interviewer could have made it (the background to the question) more clear.
That was just a light-hearted question to confirm/deny a story of Jobs asking Siri what is its gender, no talk of sexuality. I asked the same question to my iPhone 4S and I get various answers depending on Siri's settings. _Animals and French pronouns have gender. I do not._ _I have no gender._ _That does not matter._
Just saying, you are right, it is their fault. BUT, have you noticed that companies that tend to use your data and sell it have better ones? Apple chooses to not use your data/voice recordings, as they are committed to privacy and protecting user data. Learn before you judge.
Callama2 you know they actually got caught up having humans listening to people's Siri recordings right? They changed the tos so you have to Opt into it now though. www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/7/26/8932064/apple-siri-private-conversation-recording-explanation-alexa-google-assistant amp.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-contractors-regularly-hear-confidential-details-on-siri-recordings
Siri has greatly disappointed me. It was created with iTunes integration built, but ask it to perform a simple task, such as "play rock songs from 1982" or "play 70s classic rock" and it fails to understand. I expect that at the beginning, but years later? Why? Apple has billions in revenue each quarter, so it could have simply hired thousands of full time contractors to listen to Siri questions and hard code the answers ... and it would have been further along than it is. I'm not sure if Apple fails to understand the importance of AI, whether they don't have the right CEO or the right AI leaders, or what it is, but I have to believe that if Steve Jobs were still alive that they would be a leader, not a laggard.
@7:35 I think that one Assistant would be Google Assistant coz this is their future. Google has expressed their ultimate mission numerous times, they want to build the 'Star Trek Computer' and this is the way, they would achieve it
This goes to show how right Steve jobs was and how wrong this guy is. Don't get me wrong he's smart but his bixby failed because he didn't focus on the basics. He's thinking about what a voice assistant should do. He's not thinking about what people usually want to do with a voice assistant. Steve Jobs was mind blowingly knowing what the consumer would want.
Under privacy and security 8:35 So what of some instances when you have the 'wakeword' in your conversation and how would it identify the 'wakeword' if its not always listening? I think there should be a better approach to this always listening feature in these Voice assistance devices probably a better approach.
@@albarleta2511 that's cool well explained but what consumers want is to be able to tell when it's always listening and when it's processing with the wakeword. That's a concern, make a kill switch button to not always listening even when the wakeword is triggered. In that sense, users will be much more aware when they want to speak with their assistance.
Same thinking here. I used to like the old Google launcher where I would set to listen when i press mic.... Now it listens for ok google all the time 😔 😔 😔
I love everything about this video. Great views from both camera angles. Story of a guy completely committed to his work and Emily, beautiful as always asking great questions.
You know you have made it big in life when Steve jobs calls you for your app and you just little bit fall out of your chair rather than completely fall off and break your hand
Siri as an app , enjoys some nice features , one to mention is he is able to listen to a song and tell what is it , but it’s far from a human like interaction, it does not conclude an answer , if it can not find it on the web then it simply does not know !, while surfing with google , you are just saying the words instead of typing them !, so it’s a voice typer mainly .
We're having a state-of-the-art voice recognition (and more ...) technology, ... and the genius interviewer is wondering about Siri's "Gender"! ... something's wrong here.
@@missionpupa My mother told me that interacting with intelligent people is good for one's intelligence and she's more often right than wrong. You solve this conundrum
@@philippeyared2050 and you think having a voice assistant is interacting with intelligent people? there is no conundrum. Your mom is right but your premise is wrong.
Don’t kid yourself, Voice assistants are always listening and it’s not hard to imagine Samsung or any other tech co conspiring to mine data to “personalize” a better experience. They do it already with search!
Siri birthed google assistant which is better and Alexa which is more conversational. But their phones aren’t as beautiful, so I’ll stick with my dumb Siri she’s still cute lmao
Don't believe this guy when he says that devices are not listening. Recently I was at a friend's place with my phone sitting on her kitchen table. We had a conversation about how she was having legal issues because her dog bit another dog while she was out walking her dog. A few hours later the same day at home, I kept getting pop up ads on my desktop computer's internet browser saying, "Need a dog-bite lawyer?" These people are full of BS.
As an iPhone user, what I would like Siri to do for me is to be more engaging than being passive. Siri should stop speaking like a robot and should be more human-like.
Siri is my best friend! But seriously my favorite ai assistant is Siri because it has the closest to real human personality,and I hope they let that grow.
Ad companies like google, Facebook and companies that own online retail services like amazon are more likely to be listening to you because the data helps them. Google and Facebook already collect a lot of your data without your knowledge, even if you turn off all kinds of tracking in your privacy settings. That’s their business model. If they don’t get that data, they won’t earn enough. Hardware sales aren’t enough to cover their expenses.
I would have thought part of his acquisition would have included a non compete. The most I took away from this was his lack of loyalty. I guess 200 million and a slice of history wasn’t enough for him. I know that Apple has fudged up Siri and it’s now lagging behind. I don’t think the answer to that was making a rival product and selling it to one of apples most hated competitors. I would have thought he could have improved it outside of Apple and presented it to them. It just to me feels kind of poor taste to go and sell to a big rival like that.
Bixby won't be anywhere near succesful, until it stops being as intrusive as it is... I want to be able to turn it off completely, i want to be able to disable the activation button completely. Until the second i can do this, i won't use it at all..
The last minute of this is B.S.! Of course these devices are ALWAYS listening! The ‘wake’ word is only needed as a response and reply to the listening. If it wasn’t listening it wouldn’t wake. Duh!
