Apple Psychotherapist Giannandrea Needs To Heal Siri's Split Mind.

Apple has put John Giannandrea exactly where he belongs where his first task will be to fix the schizophrenia that plagues Siri that has done nothing but harm to the appeal of Apple's digital assistant. John Giannandrea is a Scottish computer scientist who most recently led Google's Search and AI activities before being poached by Apple to fix its flagging AI efforts. So far, excellence in AI has not been determined by how many clever people one employs but how by long one has been crunching the data. Therefore, anyone who expects Siri to suddenly earn a PhD overnight is going to be sorely disappointed. Improving Apple's AI is going to be a slow, time-consuming process particularly because its focus on privacy has hobbled its ability to use data to train algorithms.