Apple's Seattle job listings reveal desire to attract AI talent to work on Siri in the land of Amazon's Alexa

When Apple announced plans earlier this year to expand its engineering operation in Seattle, the company said it would be looking for "the best people who are excited about AI and machine learning." Job listings on the tech giant's website reveal just who Apple hopes to attract on its Siri Advanced Development team. Business Insider pointed at the listings on Monday, saying that Apple was making a move on Amazon's home turf to go after Siri talent in the land of Alexa -- the voice-activated assistant on devices such as the Echo and Dot. One job, posted back in January, is for a software engineer, and the other, posted on May 23, is for a speech scientist/engineer. A description at the bottom of both doesn't pull any punches when it comes to regarding the work as groundbreaking and Siri as the original AI.