Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri
I&#x27;d never used Siri in the 5+ years I&#x27;ve been using an iPhone.  Then I switched to Android for a month while awaiting the iPhone 7 (my previous phone screen cracked and could not be repaired a month before the new release).<p>After being impressed with &quot;OK Google&quot; I decided to try out Siri on my iPhone 7. I have been shocked how much better &quot;OK Google&quot; works than Siri.  I think Apple has a fair bit of catching up to do in this area.<p>With OK Google you can basically just tell it what app to open, what to do, etc., and it works.  With Siri, something as simple as asking her to play a song doesn&#x27;t actually start playing the song, it forces you to interact with a clunky UI on the siri screen first, then it doesn&#x27;t even open the correct song in Apple Music.