Siri, What Was Your Childhood Like?

What originally began as a five-year DARPA-backed project to build an intelligent virtual assistant "that could reason and learn" eventually morphed into the Apple-owned iPhone-embedded Siri we know today.

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Bianca Bosker recounts Siri’s backstory over at the Huffington Post. What originally began as a five-year DARPA-backed project to build an intelligent virtual assistant “that could reason and learn” eventually morphed into the Apple-owned iPhone-embedded Siri we know today. However, many believe the pre-Apple Siri to have been more advanced. Bosker states, “Siri’s backers know Apple’s version of the assistant has not yet lived up to its potential.”

SIRI RISING: The Inside Story Of Siri’s Origins — And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone [Huffington Post]