Siri founder Adam Cheyer tells the story of its creation in this hour long video
http://vimeo.com/114901844
While the video is at times technical and “in the weeds” it is a great overview of the creation of Siri that I hadn’t yet seen. Mixed in are anecdotes about Apple, Steve Jobs and other players that made the technology happen.
Walking backward in time, Adam discussed the technical history of Siri as well as how the vision of virtual personal assistants evolved over time. He wowed the audience with a video from 1987 on a concept from Apple where predicted a Siri like device 24 years in the future and was only off by 2 weeks.
The talk is from the Listen 2014 Conference given last month. Cheyer left Apple in late 2012 and has started work on a new Startup