To augment the experience between a user and
its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual assistant Siri, Apple has
posted several job openings for engineers at its different offices globally.
According to the data accumulated by Thinknum,
the number of open positions that contain the term "Siri" has
accelerated in recent weeks, with a current all-time high of 161 job listings
posted.
"This marks a jump in hiring for the
keyword of 24 percent in just over a
month," Thinknum, a web platform that allows investors to get data-driven investment ideas by monitoring
companies' websites, said late on Saturday. The job openings are largely based
at Apple's new headquarters in the Santa Clara Valley. Of the 161 openings, 125
are based there, the data showed.
When it came to the patterns in the job titles,
the most common title is "Siri - Software Engineer", of which there
are five positions. Three positions, "Siri - iOS Engineer" has three
replicated openings.
"The rest is a smattering of engineering skill sets, from Infrastructure Engineers to Machine Learning Engineers, to
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engineers," the web portal said.
Apple has been under fire due to Siri's lagging
intelligence. Several media reports have suggested that Siri's performance was
below par, especially when compared to her competitors at Amazon (Alexa) and
Google (Assistant).
According to a study by investment firm Loup
Ventures, Siri on the HomePod could correctly answer just 52 percent of 782 standardised questions. Google's
Home speaker got 81 percent right and
Amazon's Echo got 64 percent.
In those tests, the HomePod was weakest on
questions about navigation and general information.
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