This stagnant technology is what's holding Siri back

Over the past few years, Siri's functionality and reliability has improved by leaps and bounds. Not only is Siri's feature-set more expansive than ever, but it operates much more quickly and does a much better job at understanding and processing language. To this point, Medium last week published a fascinating and detailed profile on how Apple's advancements in the field of AI and machine learning have helped take Siri's performance to the next level. In fact, Siri Senior Director Alex Acero boasted that advancements in Siri's underlying technology has cut down the error rate "by a factor of two in all the languages" and "more than a factor of two in many cases." DON'T MISS: Apple's iPhone 8 will feature the radical redesign we've been waiting for "That's mostly due to deep learning and the way we have optimized it," Acero added, " not just the algorithm itself but in the context of the whole end-to-end product."