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    Siri cofounder reportedly used a $100 dinner-booking challenge to pitch investors

    A post relaying Siri cofounder Adam Cheyer’s account says Dag Kittlaus challenged VCs to book Indian food near his hotel, then showed Siri handling the reservation.

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    A user relays Siri cofounder Adam Cheyer’s story about fundraising in 2009: fellow cofounder Dag Kittlaus would put $100 on the table, offering it to investors who could book Indian food near his hotel in less than a few minutes. According to the account, investors struggled with separate services for reservations, reviews and maps. Kittlaus then demonstrated Siri making a reservation at a highly rated Indian restaurant near the Hilton for 8 p.m., setting up his pitch about AI.

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    @ScobleizerFun pitch story from Siri cofounder Adam Cheyer. We met up at @johnkwerner’s conference at Google today. That is him on the right. His cofounder, Dag Kittlaus would arrive to a fundraising meeting a few minutes early. Would put a $100 bill on the table. He would tell the VCs who arrived a little early, "Hey, I got a problem. I need to make a reservation near my hotel for Indian food tonight. Anybody who can do this in less than a few minutes gets $100." Back in 2009, OpenTable would be able to reserve a seat for you, Yelp would be able to tell you the reviews, and Google Maps would sort of be able to tell you where the place was, but it wasn't integrated. They would be fumbling around on their new iPhones, unable to do the job. Then he'd pull out Siri and just say, "Hey Siri, can you make a reservation at an Indian restaurant near the Hilton that has high ratings for 8 p.m. tonight?" And of course, Siri would do it just fine. From then on, he had them in the palm of his hand, and he'd talk about how AI would solve all these problems. Today, that story seems a little quaint because you can use Grok, or Meta's Llama, or any number of AIs to do such a thing. But back in 2009, only Siri did that. That is how you get people's attention at a fundraising meeting, a little stunt like that to get them to pay attention and stop being so resistant. Siri was the first consumer app to use AI. Adam ran the largest AI team in the world before that at @SRI_Intl

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    @ScobleizerFun pitch story from Siri cofounder Adam Cheyer. We met up at @johnkwerner’s conference at Google today. That is him on the right. His cofounder, Dag Kittlaus would arrive to a fundraising meeting a few minutes early. Would put a $100 bill on the table. He would tell the VCs who arrived a little early, "Hey, I got a problem. I need to make a reservation near my hotel for Indian food tonight. Anybody who can do this in less than a few minutes gets $100." Back in 2009, OpenTable would be able to reserve a seat for you, Yelp would be able to tell you the reviews, and Google Maps would sort of be able to tell you where the place was, but it wasn't integrated. They would be fumbling around on their new iPhones, unable to do the job. Then he'd pull out Siri and just say, "Hey Siri, can you make a reservation at an Indian restaurant near the Hilton that has high ratings for 8 p.m. tonight?" And of course, Siri would do it just fine. From then on, he had them in the palm of his hand, and he'd talk about how AI would solve all these problems. Today, that story seems a little quaint because you can use Grok, or Meta's Llama, or any number of AIs to do such a thing. But back in 2009, only Siri did that. That is how you get people's attention at a fundraising meeting, a little stunt like that to get them to pay attention and stop being so resistant. Siri was the first consumer app to use AI. Adam ran the largest AI team in the world before that at @SRI_Intl