Just a few days ago, John Giannandrea was working as the head of search and artificial intelligence at Google, but since yesterday he has been employedancem of the Californian giant. In the apple company, he will be in charge of the machine learning strategy and the artificial intelligence strategy, so he will report directly to the CEO himself AppHello Tim Cookoh.
In an email sent to employeesancum, Cook praised Giannadre. "John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal," he said. "Our technology must be infused with the values we all hold."
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Giannandrea comes to Appafter Siri has recently received a lot of criticism. Siri is an artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant built into products like Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV a HomeEtc. Many critics have stated that Siri has serious shortcomings compared to competing assistants from other companies, such as Microsoftu, Amazonon Google.
At Google, Giannandrea was involved in efforts to incorporate artificial intelligence into Google products such as web search, Gmail, and Google AssistantBefore joining AppGiannandrea spent ten years at Google.
In last years Apple is strengthening its AI team. In 2016, the company hired researcher Russ Salakhutdinov to lead the artificial intelligence team. He gradually employed many other workers.
Source: MacRumors
