Apple considers using AI to improve ‘Hey Siri’

While the year has been dominated by stories of Siri’s problems, one of Siri’s successes — its ability to start listening when invoked with “Hey Siri” — is the subject of Apple’s latest Machine Learning Journal entry, which also hints at future improvements for the feature. The blog explains how iOS devices now continuously listen for the prompt, and points to AI advances that could eliminate Siri’s need for initial training. In “Personalized Hey Siri,” the Siri team notes that some of the fe...