GPUs Help Cut Siri’s Error Rate by Half
By Nadeem Mohammad, posted Aug 25 2016 at 02:27PM
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To make Siri great, Apple employed several artificial intelligence experts three years ago to apply deep learning to their intelligent mobile smart assistant. The team began training a neural net to replace the original Siri. “We have the biggest and baddest GPU farm cranking all the time,” says Alex Acero, who heads the speech team.