DigiTimes: iPhone 8 to feature enhanced Siri capabilities
Apple’s next-generation iPhone is expected to feature enhanced Siri capabilities,accordingto unnamed industry sources who spoke with Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes. The report states that other vendors aside from Apple are likely to launch new smartphones featuring artificial intelligence features as a means to ramp up market shares in 2017, including Samsung (their version of Siri iscalled Bixby), Huawei, LG Electronics and Xiaomi Technology. The report states thatApple’s $200 million acquisitionof Australia-based machine learning startup Turi in August 2016 should help further strengthen Siri’s functionality....