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Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Revamped Siri on Track to Launch Next Year

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Presumably this is being released in March, it would mean that the beta will be available in January or February the latest. I highly doubt it at this point !!!
 
Folks, “on track,” does not mean what you think it means. Apple is a tiny company with limited resources. Don’t be surprised when they discover, at the very last minute, that the revamped Siri just isn’t quite ready and have to pull it LITERALLY as they are seeding that version of iOS. Stay tuned, because you ain’t see nothing yet!
 
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What Siri needs is a proper multimodal model with voice streaming: ChatGPT voice mode seems to understand each word like a mind reader. Dictation (and Siri) get every third word wrong. Being able to actually understand what is being said while listening is paramount.

With the local model strategy, will it even be possible to do similar streaming multimodal voice recognition? Surely the RAM requirements cannot be allowed to be > 4GB? Has anyone in the world been able to do a streaming voice model that small? Or is the expectation to do that in private cloud compute — streaming voice to the cloud?
 
Translation:”fools, now we have 1 more year to blame meta/china/tariffs/poaching/EU/Epic, etc. for a new delay in December 2026!!!”
Apple will not have AI. PERIOD. Don’t get your hopes up.
Photo edit with apple AI is scary, in the nightmare way!.
 
The use cases apple “demo’ed” are useless form 99% of the persons 99.999% of the time.
Just give us useful things like: “Siri, set an alarm at 7am to Spotify fav. Playlist”.
 
At this point, I doubt any of the teams even loop Tim into the status of the projects going on. There’s no way they do with how poorly implemented many of them have been.
 
DMG35 said:
It seems almost impossible that Apple could be dead last in the AI race but here we are.
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So very true.

Although I have no direct interest in AI as a priority, from a sheer competition standpoint in the smartphone sector Apple is an embarrassment.

Yet their arrogance shields them from reality.
 
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Westside guy said:
I use Siri quite often.

... to set timers. That's pretty much the only thing I can consistenly count on it doing right. Anything else typically ends up with me wanting to throw my phone across the room.
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Hey… she tells me the weather when I ask her and turns my lights off and on for me. Every night at 11 I have her read my calendar for the next day so I’ll make sure I don’t miss anything.. I find her very helpful, but I really want to see what she can do in March. I hope it will be that our 11 year wait will have been worth it.
 
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fizzyfizz said:
Is anyone remotely interested in Siri anymore?!
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Aside from doing the most basic tasks like setting a timer, opening an app, locking the phone, adjusting the brightness of the screen, turning on night shift, and turning on do not disturb......no not really. Those tasks are very helpful, but it still seems like we're so far off from the promises made by Scott Forstall during the iPhone 4S keynote.
 
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When Amazon started sending all their Alexa conversations back to HQ, I replaced it with a HomePod. Siri on that thing is even more useless than on the iPhone. I can not understand how Amazon managed to get Alexa to work so well yet Siri is so useless. It can't even understand the most basic commands unless you stand right next to the speaker and very clearly and slowly spell out what you want... even then it often gets it wrong. Just how can a $4 trillion company stand behind this product with a straight face.
 
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Westside guy said:
I use Siri quite often.

... to set timers. That's pretty much the only thing I can consistenly count on it doing right. Anything else typically ends up with me wanting to throw my phone across the room.
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Just don't ask it to start a second timer, how much is left on the timer or to stop the timer.
 
Seriously doubt it. Tim has become the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Siri will never be good. My sincerest hope is that someone screen caps this comment and I am wrong in the future, but Apple lost my faith in them when they did all the false advertising on the smarter Siri with "Apple Intelligence" - and the devices that supposedly were optimized for them.

My bet is on this happening: Apple will come back with a better Siri BUT it requires purchasing the latest hardware with the latest chips AND the iPhone 16 Pro/Max/etc. (which Apple pushed in our faces as being "made for Apple Intelligence") will be no longer be able to support this new Siri.
 
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Aside from doing the most basic tasks like setting a timer, opening an app, locking the phone, adjusting the brightness of the screen, turning on night shift, and turning on do not disturb......no not really. Those tasks are very helpful, but it still seems like we're so far off from the promises made by Scott Forstall during the iPhone 4S keynote.
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I concur. However that was only 14 years ago.

It takes time for a tiny company like Apple with very limited resources to make progress on something like this.

Perhaps sometime in the next decade they’ll fulfill their goals.
 
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