After digital assistant Siri was criticized | Apple is hiring engineers

According to VentureBeat, a data analyst at financial analysis platform Thinknum found that after sharp criticism from consumers for poorly performing digital assistant Siri, Apple recently increased its recruitment to the Siri department.

Currently, there are 161 vacancies in the Siri department, and the recruitment scale has reached a record high, which is an increase of 24% compared to the previous month.

Since mid-February, shortly after the Apple Voice HomePod was mocked for poor voice processing capabilities in its initial evaluation, Apple seems to have speeded up the pace of hiring new Siri engineers and managers.

Dozens of jobs released in February this year are still open today. In the past two days alone, Apple has released more than 20 new Siri jobs.

Thinknum's Joshua Fruhlinger said: "It's easy to see that this is a concerted effort by Apple to make Siri smart, or at least to make Siri smarter than ever before. . '

Floringer pointed out that Siri is considered to be behind Amazon's voice assistant Alexa, Google's voice assistant Google Assistant and Microsoft's voice assistant Cortana, which is no secret, and it has been trying hard to adapt to home automation tasks.

Currently, Apple’s recruitment website already shows more than 100 vacancies, including various artificial intelligence engineers, and many Siri-related positions. Most of these positions are located in the company's Apple Park campus, and a small number of positions are scattered. Its offices in foreign countries.

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