Siri Co-Founder Claims 'Let's Talk iPhone' Event World-Changing
The co-founder of Siri, Norman Winarsky, claims that the Oct. 4 Apple event at the Cupertino Campus would be a world-changing even with the introduction of the Assistant for iPhone. The feature is the formerly Siri Personal Assistant Software.
Siri was purchased by Apple back in April 2010. The company was just 2 months old from going public when it was bought by Apple for its "artificial intelligence" instead of voice recognition or search capabilities according to Steve Jobs.
The website 9 to 5 Mac has interviewed Norman Winarksy about the Oct.4 Apple event, the founding of Siri and the Assistant feature of the upcoming iPhone 5. In the interview, Norman told the website that the iPhone 3GS didn't have the sufficient power needed to use Siri's Personal Assistant Software. With the coming of the iPhone 5, the program is now called Assistant and can be ran the way they intend it to be. When they released the Siri for the iPhone 3GS, the software has undergone a lot of optimizations and short-cuts for it to run.
The Siri founder has told the interviewers that he has no idea what Apple has done to Siri but it appears that they are ready to unveil what they have done with it. He claims that Siri was ahead with its technology from other voice recognition software that it is basically artificial intelligence with real market use. He is expecting it to change how millions of people interact with their machines. This revolutionary way of actual communication with machines using words will produce a computing paradigm shift if the rumors of the Assistant is true.
The Siri was born from the US Government's artificial intelligence program called "Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes." The CALO program was founded by DARPA and ran for 5 years with 300 researchers with the goal of building assistant Artificial intelligence that can learn from experience and know aware of their tasks and build upon it to come up with their own interpretation. When the program ended in 2007,SRI international took the information from the program with some of its key players and formed Siri.