AP PHOTO/PAUL SAKUMA
SIRI
RISING
Futurists and researchers predict such voice-controlled software, like Siri and Google Now,
will take us from understanding
how to use technology to technology that understands us.
“We’re moving more and more
towards an interface like the interface we have with each other,” says
Saffo. “Our whole trend is toward
ever more intimate interactions
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with machines [...] and with each
phase, machines are doing something ever more central to our lives.”
These ever more central tasks
include everything from taking care
of life’s little hassles to actually
shaping what we do. Siri’s founders
had planned to make the assistant
a source of personalized advice and
wisdom by implanting Siri with
CALO’s cutting-edge learning skills.
Siri would have taken it upon itself
to summon information that hadn’t
specifically been requested.
Phil Schiller,
Apple’s senior
vice president
of worldwide
marketing,
talks about
Siri on the
iPhone 4S
at the Apple
Headquarters in
Cupertino,
Calif.