NEWS

“We realizewe haven’tbeen fully livingup to our high ideals, and

for that we apologize.”JasonCrossreports

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n July, a reportinThe Guardianexposedthe fact

that third‑party contractorshave been listeningin

on a small percentageof Siri requestsas part of a

‘Siri grading’programme.Applepromisedto halt the

programmewhile it conductsa “thoroughreview”,

whichleft us wonderinghow the companywould

move forward,as humangradingof any machine‑

learning process is an essential part of training the

algorithms to improve them.

Apple apologizes for

Siri grading programme