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WHO IS AI EXPERT JOHN GIANNANDREA?

John Giannandrea was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Strathclyde.

During the 1990s he worked at General Magic, one of the pioneering companies of handheld devices.

Mr Giannandrea even worked on an early personal assistant similar to today's Siri.

The 53-year-old then joined Netscape and later co-founded voice-recognition firm TellMe.

In 2005, he created Metaweb, software that catalogued links between words and objects which Google bought in 2010.

While at Google, Mr Giannandrea has helped introduce and develop image recognition for Google Photos and smart reply for Google Inbox. 

He was also a leading figure in Alphabet's self-driving cars scheme using machine learning to navigate streets and obstacles. 

He served as senior vice president for search, machine intelligence and the web at Google until March 2018.

It was announced in early April that he would join Apple to help them improve Siri. 

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