Apple product secrecy might explain why Apple’s AI lags behind | BGR

Apple product secrecy might explain why Apple's AI lags behind | BGR

By Yoni Heisler on Oct 30, 2015 at 1:02 PM When it comes to product secrecy, you'd be hard pressed to find a company more obsessed with keeping things under wraps than Apple . In one of the more famous examples, former Apple executive Scott Forstall, when recruiting engineers for the original iPhone team and didn't even tell prospective team members what they'd be working on. Similarly, when Apple hired former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to work on the Apple Watch , Lynch didn't even know what product he'd be working on until he actually signed an employment contract. While Apple's preoccupation with product secrecy may be beneficial in some respects, a new report from Bloomberg  relays that it can also adversely affect the company's ability to recruit top AI scientists, ultimately resulting in software that isn't always best in class. Whereas AI scientists from almost every other company, including Google and Microsoft,

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