Experts in artificial intelligence applauded the move as an important step forward, in part because the more people use an artificial intelligence system, the better it becomes. But Apple took other steps to weave artificial intelligence more tightly into its operating system. “Is it too little too late?” asked Oren Etzioni, who is CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a professor at the University of Washington. Apple unveiled a series of improvements to its Siri digital assistant on Thursday, but the tech giant still trails rivals such as Google and Amazon in the red-hot field of artificial intelligence, experts say. As a startup, Siri worked with a variety of popular apps, but Apple cut off third-party access to the service shortly after the acquisition.

Source: Hindustan Times June 14, 2016 00:56 UTC