{"id":18842,"date":"2020-06-02T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2577531"},"modified":"2020-06-02T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:40:00","slug":"apple-buys-an-ai-startup-to-improve-siris-data-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/02\/apple-buys-an-ai-startup-to-improve-siris-data-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple buys an AI startup to improve Siri\u2019s data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb td-animation-stack-type0-2\" title=\"7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9clientamp-blogside-v2signaturef4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2\" src=\"https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2-696x387.\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2-696x387. 696w, https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2-300x167. 300w, https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2-1024x569. 1024w, https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2-768x427. 768w, https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2-1068x593. 1068w, https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2-756x420. 756w, https:\/\/techfans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7ac2f8f0-a074-11ea-bb7f-56e2f6f772d9&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=f4323d89ee3492129678c779a9ad52dc996a06e2 1134w\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Apple is continuing its string of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-01-15-apple-acquires-ai-startup-xnorai.html\">AI startup acquisitions<\/a>, this time to improve Siri&rsquo;s performance. The company has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-05-27\/apple-buys-machine-learning-startup-to-improve-data-used-in-siri?sref=iKB6XOvf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg<\/em>&nbsp;that it recently acquired Inductiv, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based company that uses AI to correct data &mdash; which, in turn, improves machine learning. The company didn&rsquo;t elaborate on its plans and relied on its standard response that it &ldquo;buys smaller technology companies from time to time,&rdquo; but Siri appears to be the focus.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone maker appears to be focused on improving its voice assistant&rsquo;s understanding as of late, most recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-04-03-apple-siri-voysis.html\">acquiring Voysis<\/a>&nbsp;to boost natural language comprehension. Cleaner data would go a long way toward that goal by reducing the chances that garbage information confuses Siri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-01-15-apple-acquires-ai-startup-xnorai.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-01-15-apple-acquires-ai-startup-xnorai.html<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Ann<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Ann<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is continuing its string of&nbsp;AI startup acquisitions, this time to improve Siri&rsquo;s performance. The company has&nbsp;confirmed&nbsp;to&nbsp;Bloomberg&nbsp;that it recently acquired Inductiv, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based company that uses AI to correct data &mdash; which, in turn, improves machine learning. The company didn&rsquo;t elaborate on its plans and relied on its standard response that it &ldquo;buys &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/02\/apple-buys-an-ai-startup-to-improve-siris-data-3\/\">Continue reading <span>Apple buys an AI startup to improve Siri&rsquo;s data<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/02\/apple-buys-an-ai-startup-to-improve-siris-data-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apple buys an AI startup to improve Siri\u2019s data - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/02\/apple-buys-an-ai-startup-to-improve-siris-data-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apple buys an AI startup to improve Siri\u2019s data - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apple is continuing its string of&nbsp;AI startup acquisitions, this time to improve Siri&rsquo;s performance. 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