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In an effort to keep up with its competitors in the fields of search and AI, Apple has hired John Giannandrea, Google’s head of search and artificial intelligence.
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Apple’s Siri assistant has caught a lot of flak lately for not performing nearly as well as Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, but the company may have just made a huge move to change that.
Apple has hired John Giannandrea to run its “machine learning and AI strategy,” according to a report from The New York Times. Giannandrea previously spent 10 years at Google working on search and AI, and news that he was leaving Google came out just yesterday.
“Our technology must be infused with the values we all hold dear,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an internal email about this hiring. “John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal.” Giannandrea will report directly to Cook.
Apple has offered Siri in iOS for years now, but it hasn’t been improving at nearly the same rate as Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. While Siri can handle functions like answering questions, setting timers and reminders, and telling you sports scores and the weather, it’s considered by many to be quite a bit less accurate and powerful than its digital assistant counterparts.
We’ll have to wait and see if Giannandrea can help make Siri better so that it’s more competitive with Google and Amazon’s assistants, but his hiring is certainly exciting news for iOS users.
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Google has pushed out a new update to its Search app. The update is aimed at making your movie planning experience smoother as it brings along the ability to compare movies using filters like ratings, show times, and theater location. “If you have a favorite theater, you can check out what’s playing by location, and narrow your search with filters,” the company explains in a blog post. The new feature is available on both Google Search Android app as well as mobile browsers in India and the US, with English and Hindi as currently supported languages. The Search for iOS app will…
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Apple’s A.I. efforts have received a huge boost as it has hired Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea. Over at Apple, Giannandrea will be leading Apple’s “machine learning and A.I. strategy” and will be reporting directly to Tim Cook. Continue reading 
Google has announced today that it’s rolling out changes to Search which will make it easier for users to find and buy tickets to a movie they want to see. Now, when searching for a good movie to go watch with some friends, users will be able to quickly filter and compare a whole bunch of factors, including ratings, showtimes, theater locations, and more.
In addition to being able to find nearby theaters based on where a where a specific movie is playing, users can also pick a favorite place and search only for movies that are showing at that particular theater.
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Apple has hired Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea, reports The New York Times. The outlet has obtained an internal email from Tim Cook, who tells employees “John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal.”… Read the rest of this post here
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Back in 2011, Apple introduced Siri with a whole lot of fanfare when it unveiled the iPhone 4s. Positioned as the iPhone’s new flagship feature, the iPhone 4s launch itself was pushed back by a few months so that Apple could iron out a few of lingering performance issues with Siri. And though the Siri launch had its fair share of hiccups, Apple’s intelligent assistant has improved considerably over the past few years.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that competing intelligent assistants from the likes of Amazon and Google have seemingly lapped Siri across a number of different performance metrics. While the exact reasons behind Siri’s fall from grace can be debated — some point to Apple’s obsession with user privacy — a recent report from The Information articulated that political in-fighting has been hindering the Siri team for years.
The report reads in part:
Siri’s various teams morphed into an unwieldy apparatus that engaged in petty turf battles and heated arguments over what an ideal version of Siri should be—a quick and accurate information fetcher or a conversant and intuitive assistant capable of complex tasks.
Apple, at the very least, seems to be aware that Siri performance needs to be improved in a fundamental way. Case in point: The New York Times is now reporting that Apple recently hired John Giannandrea, Google’s former chief of search and AI. At Apple, Giannandrea will reportedly head up the company’s machine learning and AI initiatives. And speaking to the importance of his role, Giannandrea will report directly to Tim Cook.
The Times report reads in part:
The hire is a victory for Apple, which many Silicon Valley executives and analysts view as lagging its peers in artificial intelligence, an increasingly crucial technology for companies that enable computers to handle more complex tasks, like understanding voice commands or identifying people in images.
Looking ahead, it will be interesting to see if Siri can eventually make up significant ground as it seeks to catch up to Siri and Alexa. The Giannandrea hire will certainly help and it remains to be seen if Apple will have any Siri performance improvements to divulge when WWDC rolls around this coming June.
As a final point, it stands to reason that Giannandrea will also play a prominent role in Apple’s self-driving car efforts, an initiative that Tim Cook previously categorized as the “mother of all AI projects.”
If you ever use Google to search for information on movies in theaters, then you’re going to be excited about an update that Google is pushing right now.
Google has announced that its rolling out improvements to Google Search that’ll help you pick a movie when you’re thinking about going to the theater. With it, you can quickly compare movies by factors like ratings, showtimes, theater location, and more, all in the same view. You can also buy tickets by clicking on a showtime, just like before.
If you have a certain theater that you prefer to visit, you can see what’s playing and narrow your search with filters.
These changes are now rolling out in Google Search on mobile browsers as well as in the Google app for Android. It’s available in the U.S. and India in English and Hindi. The features will roll out to the Google app for iOS soon.
When you’re looking for a movie to see, it can be difficult to quickly compare showtimes or even decide which movie you want to see. These Google Search changes should make both of those things much easier, so the next time that you’re thinking about going to see a movie, give Google Search and these features a try.
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