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New Apple AI chief to oversee Siri, Machine Learning
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IANS | 11 Jul, 2018
Revealing its future plans, Apple has formally announced to make
ex-Google executive John Giannandrea its Chief of Machine Learning (ML)
and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy.
Reporting to CEO Tim
Cook, Giannandrea who joined Apple in April will be in charge of Apple's
ML division, Siri and the Core ML team, the company updating its
executive leadership page, said.
Giannandrea will look after
further development of Core ML and Siri technologies. With Core ML,
third-party developers can integrate trained ML models into their apps.
Prior
to Apple, Giannandrea spent eight years at Google where he led the
Machine Intelligence, Research and Search teams. Before it, he
co-founded two technology companies -- Tellme Networks and Metaweb
Technologies.
At Google, Giannandrea took the role of Senior Vice
President of Engineering from Amit Singhal in early 2016, signalling
Google's emphasis on weaving ML and AI into its Search engine.
According
to media reports, Apple lags behind from Google and Amazon in key AI
areas like Natural Language Processing (NLP) and computer vision needed
to power voice assistant features in Siri.
Apple has invested in Siri and HomeKit to compete with Google Home and Alexa-based smart home systems.
In
2017, Apple added an AI chip called Neural Engine to the A11 Bionic for
the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X to work with the Image Signal
Processor (ISP).
Apple has posted several job openings for AI/ML engineers at its different offices globally.
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