Apple wants to hire Siri a personal assistant to keep up with the cool kids

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Apple wants to hire Siri a personal assistant to keep up with the cool kids
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Are you tired of that awkward moment when you ask Siri to check if it's National Awkward Moments Day (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalAwkwardMomentsDay?src=hash) and your iPhone leaves you in a lurch?

Apple's AI assistant is tasked with answering your questions and keeping track of your busy schedule, but Siri can't always keep up with all the events jamming the packed-out pop culture calendar. The blind spot for fabricated social media events, aka hashtag holidays (http://mashable.com/2017/04/12/stop-holiday-hashtag-trend/), is apparently so glaring that Apple is searching for a real person to add some expertise to the AI.*

The iPhone maker recently listed a new job posting, *spotted by 9to5Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/27/siri-is-looking-for-a-personal-assistant-event-maven/), for a "Siri Event Maven (https://jobs.apple.com/us/search#&ss=Siri%20Event%20Maven&t=1&so=&lo=0*USA&pN=0&openJobId=83578927)." The ad's thirst is palpable, incorporating some cringeworthy recruiter-speak to describe a position that will essentially serve as an assistant for Apple's own AI assistant to keep it up to speed on what the cool kids are buzzing about.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/27/siri-assistant-apple-job-hiring/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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