Ever wish Siri was more intelligent?

Well, it seems Apple’s virtual assistant will be moving in that direction with the hiring of Apple’s first ever director of A.I. research. So who is this new director? And what does Apple hope to accomplish?

In IT Blogwatch, we ask Siri for the answers.

So who is this famed new director of A.I. research? Michelle Starr has the details:

Apple is getting serious about artificial intelligence…It’s just hired its first director of A.I…Ruslan Salakhutdinov.
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Salakhutdinov…primarily researches deep learning and neural networks, where computers learn from a large pool of examples…but Salakhutdinov’s research takes it a step farther — he’s trying to figure out how to get A.I. to learn from raw data.

So why did Apple select him as the director? Will Knight is in the know:

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