Dag Kittlaus @Dagk Twitter profile

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Dag Kittlaus

@Dagk

5 months

Every word uttered by every player using the (incredible) LLM tech echos our original Siri vision from 2007 and before. The only difference is, now there are no longer any technical barriers to realizing it. Let the race commence. Congrats to @OpenAI on the incredible leap today.

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@Jessicalessin This statement, wholly false, was made by the architect and head of the biggest launch disaster in Apple history, Apple Maps. In reality Siri worked great at launch but, like any new platform under unexpectedly massive load, required scaling adjustments and 24 hour workdays.

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@markgurman I was in all the original Siri privacy meetings and I can tell you for sure tha Apple takes this stuff very seriously and @tim_cook has gone yet further. I trust Apple more than any company.

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@Dagk

8 years

Game. On.

Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple’s Siri | TechCrunch

Samsung has agreed to acquire Viv, an AI and assistant system co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham — who created Siri, which was

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@Dagk

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@Scobleizer Siri will do some cool new things in 2024. Then accelerate and become a real force in the AI arena. Apple is uniquely positioned to enable new, useful and unexpected LLM use cases.

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@Dagk

8 years

Live every day, friends. Tomorrow is promised to no one.

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@Dagk

5 years

@bob_burrough ...and then it was off to the races.

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@Dagk

1 year

@DavidSacks @RStatecraft With all due respect, Trump initiated his campaign early so he could blame his known impending indictments as political. Most or all of these actions pre-dated his candidacy. And when you profess to be somewhat neutral on your analysis, I seriously doubt Biden is pulling any

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@Dagk

5 years

@justGLew On my first day at Apple Steve Jobs saw myself and my co-founder in the cafeteria. He pulled us in with his arms around us and said “I want you to make this place your personal candy store, take whatever you need...we’re going to make something great together” That’s leadership.

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@Dagk

8 years

Showtime next week after 3.5 years of work.

Siri’s creators say they’ve made something better that will take care of everything for you

The iPhone changed the world. This might change it next

www.washingtonpost.com

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@Dagk

3 years

@verge We had a shared long-term vision with Steve which faded after he passed and my successor had no vision or accountability and is happily long gone from Apple. Steve and Scott F and the Siri founders had a plan that sadly died on the vine. But I’m confident Apple will lift Siri up.

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@Dagk

5 years

Three years ago today I had my surgery to remove a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. I’m one of the lucky ones. A survivor. Thank you PanCAN for all you do!

PanCAN

@PanCAN

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. @Dagk , co-founder of Siri- the voice assistant purchased by @Apple - remembers colleague Steve Jobs' fight with #pancreaticcancer as he was diagnosed with the same disease. This month, Dag has joined with @PanCAN in a PSA to raise awareness.

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@Dagk

5 years

I call BS on this. Siri was genderless from the beginning. Different countries had different voice defaults...male and female. Everything is configurable. Just think this perspective is pushing it.

Hey Siri, you're sexist, finds UN report on gendered technology

The report found that female voice assistants' submissive tone wasn't helping efforts to tackle gender discrimination.

www.weforum.org

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@Dagk

8 years

Tuesday: Executive health exam. ☀️Wed: Randomly found lemon sized tumor on Pancreas. 😱Friday: Removed it. No spread. All clear. 😀Thankful. 🦃

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@Dagk

5 years

@bob_burrough We had a terrible meeting with Apple folks the day we made that video. Our 3rd-party speech provider wasn’t working...worst demo ever. So we made that video and sent it to Apple to show it working properly. Two weeks later Steve Jobs called me.

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@Dagk

4 years

I remember that day. :-)

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@BrianRoemmele

4 years

On this day in 2010, Apple acquired Siri from Siri, inc. It was by far the most advanced #VoiceFirst system created. @acheyer + @Dagk + team truly changed the world. I used Siri as an app and I wrote a bit about it on the day of the Apple acquisition:

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@Dagk

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Siri is quietly training hard for the comeback. Hey Siri, time to dominate. The AI dark horse: Why Apple could win the next evolution of the AI arms... via @YouTube

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@Dagk

5 years

@bgurley Too many spineless turd VC’s. Siri was built in 2008-2009 with investors that stood behind us in the darkest days.

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@Dagk

6 years

I remember trying to explain this “assistant” concept to some VC’s who who insisted that no one would ever use this.

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@Dagk

11 months

@JBPritzker Love Chicago. Malort tastes like ass.

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@Dagk

2 years

Why is America, through it all, still the greatest country in the world?

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@Dagk

6 years

@dens @sacca Ha, you guys are early bloomers! Started Siri at 40 and Viv a few years before my AARP card arrived in the mail.

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@Dagk

8 years

Thanks @CharlieRoseShow @charlierose . An honor to sit at the table.

Dag Kittlaus - Charlie Rose

Dag Kittlaus, who previously co-founded Siri, discusses his new company Viv and advances in artificial intelligence.

charlierose.com

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@Dagk

8 years

The Why.

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@Dagk

13 years

Early Siri roadmap releases 1. Periodically human 2. Practically human 3. Positively human 4. Who are you calling human? 5. Kill all humans.

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@Dagk

7 years

@sacca @mcuban Sharks die if they aren't in constant motion. 😎

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@Dagk

8 years

We've been in a room for four years developing the worlds most powerful and scalable assistant AI. Pondering the fastest path to Ubiquity...

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@Dagk

5 years

Stormset from the 87th floor.

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@Dagk

6 years

Bixby re-emerges! #SDC2018

Did Samsung's Bixby just beat out Siri, Alexa and Google?

Behind the scenes Samsung has been working to radically overhaul Bixby with an AI system which it says is far more sophisticated than anything from Google, Amazon, Apple or Microsoft.

www.afr.com

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@Dagk

8 years

Right on @BrianRoemmele Samsung is not messing around. Phones, cars, VR, appliances, TV's just the beginning.

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@Dagk

5 years

Happy birthday, Siri! @acheyer reminded me that today is the 10th birthday of the original Siri launch.

Siri - The Personal Assistant on your Phone

Siri is a virtual personal assistant on your phone. You ask Siri in your own voice, and it helps you get things done when you're on the go. This video show...

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@Dagk

7 years

With all the talk recently you have to ask. Is Siri in Jeopardy? 😂

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@Dagk

4 years

@stevesi 5G speed allows Siri to actually read your mind and act on your intent prior to verbalization. Think and done. (for a reasonable Verizon up charge)

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@Dagk

8 years

Time to show a small slice of what's to come in AI and the future of Intelligent Assistants.

Dag Kittlaus, co-founder of Siri, will give the world's first demo of a next gen AI called Viv at...

While Siri now lives on the phones of hundreds of millions of Apple users, just a few people are responsible for helping get the now ubiquitous

techcrunch.com

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@Dagk

5 years

This was the cancer I had and the one that killed my old boss Steve Jobs. If you have long-term gastro issues, a nagging lower back pain or persistent diarrhea, get a scan. It could be a NET.

CarcinoidCancer CCF

@CarcinoidNETs

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With greater awareness as well as advances in imaging and treatments for #NeuroendocrineCancers our aim is to see people being properly diagnosed and treated, early on, improving quality of life and length of life. #LetsTalkAboutNETs

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@Dagk

4 years

Photo of the year.

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@Dagk

5 years

Nice job @NickHanauer !! The dirty secret of capitalism — and a new way forward (Nick Hanauer | TEDSummit 2019) via @TEDTalks

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@Dagk

5 years

@Scobleizer @CanvasVC @MenloVentures Steve called me every day to convince us to join with Apple. Yes, it could have been an important unicorn but launching with Apple fast-forwarded the assistant market by 5 years and we didn’t regret the move.

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@Dagk

5 months

I remember the day. Watch closely for Siri to rise from the ashes like the Phoenix and vault into the top 2-3 assistants.

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@Eye_Bee_Leaf

5 months

@Dagk @acheyer Can’t wait to Siri go from here. 🤭

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@Dagk

5 months

@RobbieAb @OpenAI I don’t think anyone could have predicted the scaled LLM revolution. I’m still in awe 18 months in. And the breakthroughs continue to pour in.

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@Dagk

7 years

Thanks for everything @waltmossberg who spotted Siri before the rest. Here's the first ever public demo with Walt.

D7 Video: Siri Tech Demo

At D7, Siri CEO Dag Kittlaus demos his company's latest product to Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and the audience. Siri is a virtual personal assistant for the iPhone which has AI and voice recognition...

www.wsj.com

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@Dagk

7 years

@BrianRoemmele @Jessicalessin Thanks Brian. Siri wasn’t perfect but it was the first of its kind and set a completely new bar for conversational assistants that, ten years later, every top tech company is attempting to replicate and dominate.

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@Dagk

7 years

Viv is coming.

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@Dagk

4 years

Four years after surviving pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer I am all-in on applying tech to destroy disease. Welcome to Riva Health.

This Startup Wants to Take Your Blood Pressure With an iPhone

“Hey Siri, help me treat my hypertension."

www.wired.com

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@Dagk

1 year

Just had a heart-to-heart with someone battling the same cancer I faced. It's a stark reminder that life is fragile, and we must seize every moment! 💪 Live every day like it's your last. Tomorrow is promised to no one.

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@Dagk

5 years

@leepnet The biggest tech companies in the world were often founded and/or funded in way bigger crisis than this. Dump any VC who waffles when the slightest uncertainty arises. Imagine how much they will have your back in a REAL crisis. @shawnvc is the best example of this. “All in” 2008

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@Dagk

5 years

@realDonaldTrump Why so many tweets today? Concerned about the upcoming Mueller report by any chance?

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@Dagk

8 years

The irony is that it was exactly the very rare type of tumor Steve Jobs had. #I 'moneluckyguy

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@Dagk

8 years

Viv. The demo.

Beyond Siri: The World Premiere of Viv with Dag Kittlaus

Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus unvleils Viv, a new artificial intelligence personable assistant platform that enables developers to distribute their products t...

www.youtube.com

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@Dagk

5 months

@itsmechase @OpenAI 1. Natural language understanding has essentially been solved. And the tech is multimodal which could not have been foreseen. 2. 100% Siri will receive a brain transplant using the latest. It will take time but Siri will absolutely be one of, if not THE assistant in the world.

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@Dagk

6 years

Speaking to Emily Chang on Bloomberg TV about Siri, Bixby and the future of assistants. #SDC2018

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@Dagk

7 years

@chriswelch The point was that Siri began the assistant revolution and Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall deserve credit for recognizing it and helping us go large with it. It was years after before ANY of the competitors caught on to its significance and started their efforts. The race is on.

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@Dagk

4 years

The incomparable @StevenLevy was kind enough to tell our story. Welcome to Riva Health.

This Startup Wants to Take Your Blood Pressure With an iPhone

“Hey Siri, help me treat my hypertension."

www.wired.com

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@Dagk

4 years

Siri. The old days 😂

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@Dagk

7 years

***Anyone want to “join the conversation” and voice-enable your service on a billion devices over the next few years? Bixby 2.0 powered by Viv is coming. Help us perfect this amazing new AI Marketplace. Sign up at

Bixby Developers

The intelligent assistant platform built from the ground up for developers. Come join the Bixby Developer Program.

bixbydevelopers.com

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@Dagk

5 years

Great times at Viv Labs over the last 7 years, absolutely amazing team. Now busy exploring the next big thing.

Siri, Viv Labs Co-Founder Leaves Samsung

Samsung has changed CEOs for Viv Labs, the startup it acquired three years ago as part of its efforts to develop a digital assistant for its smartphones and tablets, The Information has learned. Dag...

www.theinformation.com

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@Dagk

3 years

Happy 10th anniversary to Siri, my favorite digital child! Also, my favorite headline of all time :-) @acheyer

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@Dagk

8 years

@johnbattelle Most insightful piece ever of the larger implications of Viv.

This Company Might Make Apple and Google Irrelevant

The team behind Viv hopes to change how we interact with just about everything — and build a new economic model for the Internet along the…

medium.com

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@Dagk

6 years

Voice interactions with “things” as well as services will cascade as a result of the original Siri effort.

Mad Money On CNBC

@MadMoneyOnCNBC

6 years

. @DagK , one of the brains behind Siri, tells @JimCramer that Apple's execution in voice wasn't perfect, but the invention is still paving the way to a new kind of future

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@Scobleizer Ok, let’s take a crack. Assumption is giant leaps in Apple apps and key partner integration: “Siri, could you alert me when Chris Malinchak has a new song release and have Spotify put it in my “Chill Beats” folder. “Siri, can you wake me up at 7am on Tuesdays and Thursdays,

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@Dagk

2 years

Having been in the AI natural language space for 16 years with Siri this was the most amazing and disturbing AI dialog of ever seen.

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@Dagk

6 years

How does Viv/Bixby change the game for the intelligent assistants? @bretkinsella asks developers...

Bixby from a Developer Perspective with Murphy, Kibbe and Haas - The Voicebot Podcast

Following up on our Podcast with Adam Cheyer (Ep 69), Samsung Bixby's engineering leader, I caught up with some developers and researchers that have worked with Bixby 2.0. We start off with Joe...

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@Dagk

8 years

@JoshConstine @BrianRoemmele @TechCrunch I was at a "top" VC pitching Siri in 2007. They didn't get the Assistant thing at all. Times change

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@Dagk

5 years

That about sums it up

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@Dagk

8 years

This is natures majesty at its best.

Marko Korosec

@MarkoKorosecNet

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Majestic Leoti, KS supercell on May 21st, 2016. What a great chase day it was, slow moving storms and photogenic spaceships!

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6 years

As a part of SDC I’ll be sitting down with Spike Jonze, writer and director of Her, to discuss Hollywood’s influence on tech and how to ensure A.I. for good. Here is an article I wrote about the feasibility of Her today.

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@Dagk

6 years

Wow

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@taniatare

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#doublehit #triplehit #quadruplehit - “The limit does not exist!” 😂 not sure what the rule is about changing club mid stroke though...

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7 years

Our original Siri sw release schedule. 1.0: Periodically human 2.0: Practically human 3.0: Positively human 4.0: Kill all humans. Uh oh.

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Actually I said Apple Watch was the last Apple innovation to be “first” to conquer a new market. But I couldn’t agree more on the last sentence. Siri will 💯 rise beyond being first to being the best. Nobody does core tech like Apple. Can’t wait to see Siri 2.0

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@Dagk

7 years

@BrianRoemmele @KevDoy @chd @reneritchie Steve was in pretty good shape at the time of the Siri courtship. Thin but full of energy and fire. He personally came to the Siri office to announce the acquisition with me.

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@Dagk

4 years

There’s a few cool apps here from 2009, @acheyer @waltmossberg

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@Dagk

4 years

@gruber Siri sleeps in on Sundays.

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@Dagk

6 years

@benedictevans People are buying and using them so there is product market fit. Big time. The bigger point I agree with is that they aren’t an important or essential part of people lives yet. Cue seamless third-party user experiences. That’s the missing link...

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@shervin Open third-party ecosystem enabling AI “App Store”, proactive actions based on user personalization knowledge, personality & celebrity voice user options, instant-pairing with in-home systems.

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@Dagk

2 years

@tim_cook Honored to have worked with him.

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@Dagk

4 years

The book “Talk to me” by @jamesvlahos is, by far, the most accurate depiction of the early Siri days.

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8 years

Ubiquity commeth. Why Samsung wants to build a ‘corporate-wide AI voice system’ - VentureBeat

Why Samsung wants to build a ‘corporate-wide AI voice system’

Samsung's reach stretches across nearly every part of the home, from appliances to televisions, computers, tablets, light bulbs, and smartphones. And the company isn't stopping there -- it's also...

apple.news

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@Dagk

8 years

@ricmac @demishassabis @facebook @DeepMindAI @KurzweilAINews We believe AI will assist, not control humans.

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5 years

@leepnet @shawnvc And by “all in 2008” in mean that @shawnvc was looking to buy out other VC interest in Siri in the dark days of 2009, way prior to Apple interest, during the biggest financial crisis of our generation. Look for your @shawnvc , not the “no backbone” VC described here.

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9 years

The little guy versus the big guys. Can't wait.

Meet Viv: the AI that wants to read your mind and run your life

The team behind Siri have a new idea: a voice-controlled personal assistant that will take care of your every need

www.theguardian.com

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@Dagk

7 years

God help us. And God help the United States of America.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!

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4 years

I’m no celebrity, but have seen people do this. Ask me anything for the next 30 min...

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4 months

@MatthewBerman @DavidSacks He was a respected serial entrepreneur that has gone off the deep end. Would love to debate him on AI (obviously not his field) or politics, also not his field but apparently becoming so.

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5 years

Must be a slow news day.

Apple's former Siri chief says today's digital assistants still have a long way to go before they...

Apple's former Siri lead Bill Stasior says understanding speech more naturally is one of the biggest areas in which digital assistants will improve.

www.businessinsider.com

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2 years

Mobile disease management is coming. It’s so vastly superior that it’s inevitable. Soon 😉🚀

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4 years

@levie Box isn’t (gulp) made of cardboard is it? 😳

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5 years

@gruber EN US....or you may get a lot of “mates”, “jolly good’s” or “blimey’s”

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@Dagk

8 years

What do you call the thing that comes after "ludicrous mode"?

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@Dagk

3 years

The clinical version of the “photon torpedo.” Coming soon to a phone near you. Screw hypertension.

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4 years

I think I like this guy

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@Dagk

2 years

@swoph Popular restaurants use OT to fill seats outside of peak times in order to ensure availability for regular clientele. The restaurants set the parameters for their own availability.

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9 months

@vkhosla As the co-founder/CEO of Siri I have been working on this issue since we founded Siri in 2007. (You know the story since we spoke in the early years) The issue is that, in order to have an agent execute actions, you need the business buy in of your “legacy app“ partners. They

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10 years

My take on how AI will change the web. http://t.co/EyfwOGnPhC

A Cambrian Explosion In AI Is Coming | TechCrunch

You can call it a Virtual Personal Assistant, an Intelligent Agent, an Intelligent Interface or whatever you wish. We call it inevitable. The era of the assistant that began with Siri will eventually...

techcrunch.com

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@Dagk

5 years

Thanks @mmaser and @zerofasting for helping through this journey. Feel great!

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@Dagk

1 year

Never seen such delicious light

Figen

@TheFigen_

1 year

Drones used in the Wine Festival celebrations illuminated the night. France, Bordeaux

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6 months

A-gentic AI. The new rage. Only we invented working versions of this in 2008. Anyone heard of it?

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@Dagk

7 years

This is leadership.

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@Dagk

4 years

@levie He started the meeting with “Enterprises are beginning to rethink what’s now possible when you move to digital. An event can reach 10,000 customers not 100.”

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@Dagk

5 years

After the bluster dies there remains the reality.

Jesse Lehrich

@JesseLehrich

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Mexico: no deal China: no deal North Korea: no deal Iran: no deal Venezuela: no deal new NAFTA: no deal trade with EU: no deal trade with Japan: no deal immigration: no deal infrastructure: no deal

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@benedictevans I do. Siri alone has 100B+ queries/yr. That said, I agree that they are not yet essential. Useful, but not essential. The tech is almost as hard as AGI but it’s coming along. Patience, BE. Some things are worth the wait...😉

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