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maverick_iceman on Dec 30, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggi...

They kinda shot themselves in the foot with their positioning on privacy. You can't get good at AI assistants without huge amount of training data.

matwood on Dec 30, 2016 [–]

The privacy thing is part of it, but Apples AI problem is deeper than that. Google and Amazon both have huge supplementary personalized datasets to pull from. Normal interactions with Apple just do not give away as much personal information, even if their privacy policy did not exist.

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