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What I'd like to see them buy
- a Lua company (or any company that can provide an adult-level scripting solution, not this Shortcuts nonsense). You'd think Apple knows a thing or two about JS, but they seem unwilling to provide us with JS scripting or Swift REPL scripting.

- a cloud infrastructure company or two.
 
I can’t claim to know everything about AI… but at least I know enough to recognize a purely emotional response, devoid of any facts or accuracy whatsoever.
But is an AI smart enough to recognize such a response? :)
 
"I dropped her off at a Greyhound station in Tennessee and never looked back" sounds like the first line in a country song.
In fact one of the greatest country songs ever! Unwed Fathers by John Prine

In an Appalachian, Greyhound station
She sits there waiting, in a family way
"Goodbye brother, Tell Mom I love her
Tell all the others, I'll write someday"
From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother
Kept undercover, like some bad dream
While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered
They run like water, through a mountain stream
In a cold and gray town, a nurse say's "Lay down"
'This ain't no playground, and this ain't home'
Someone's children, out having children
In a gray stone building, all alone
On somewhere else bound, Smokey Mountain Greyhound
She bows her head down, hummin' lullabies
'Your daddy never, meant to hurt you ever'
'He just don't live here, but you've got his eyes'
From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother
Kept undercover, like some bad dream
While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered
They run like water, through a mountain stream
Well, they run like water,
Through a mountain stream

Or you could go in a different country direction with Kris Kristofferson and Me and Bobby McGee

One day near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away
She's looking for that home I hope she finds
But I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday
To be holding Bobby's body next to mine

(Be sure you don't have similar regrets about Siri!)
 
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You wouldn’t tell.. Siri is just getting worse. Not recognising voices on HomePod, saying devices are disconnected, not answering at all, giving idiotic answers, adding reminders completely wrong etc etc.
A friend has Google at home and it’s truly impressing the amount of info you can get from it with a request.
I would never put a home mini at home, I actually have one sealed in the closet that I got as a present, but the superiority is undeniable.
 
No idea why everyone is complaining about Siri, you want privacy, this is one of the things that suffer.
Not every issue is due to its privacy.
Ask Google “at what age does a baby walk”, Google gives you a straight answer, Siri doesn’t understand the question.

Ask Siri to add shopping list reminders “add toilet paper to my shopping list” and you will randomly end up with two entries, one for toilet one for paper. But then if you ask to “add apples and carrots to my shopping list” and you will end up with “apples and carrots” as a single entry.
Then it says your devices are not responding and if you use home app on the phone all the lights just work.
My partner’s voice is recognised 6 times out of 10, and she has always the same voice not that she changes the voice during the day.
Often she adds three or four items on the shopping list in a row and at the third entry goes “who’s speaking”... come on...


That’s why people complain about Siri. It’s just bad. And those things I mentioned aren’t privacy related at all.

Oh, not to mention the fact that you ask a million time the same question like “what’s the weather” (example) and one day it goes “sorry I can’t do that on HomePod”
 
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[Siri scrolling through her Google feed]
/sees article about Apple's many AI purchases over the past few years
/sighs deeply
/takes last sip of pinot and puts down wine glass
/snatches a tumbler from the shelf and a bottle of Jack

/reads first comment on MR's forum

"Die @#%^&%$!*"
 
"Artificial intelligence enables computers and machines to mimic the perception, learning, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities of the HUMAN MIND."

What is the human mind....would that be consciousness?
Oh, Jesus….
as soon as you had a post about religion, I knew this was gonna devolve to some “but, but, but… AI isn’t AI, because where is the SOUL??!” kinda nonsense.

Where sense lacks; interject “faith”.
 
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