I just wish Apple would sort AI. Gemini is on a different planet compared to Apple’s offering.
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Apple Could Use ChatGPT or Claude to Power Siri
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Hasn't made a decision to abandon Siri??? At this point, it's so laughably behind everything else.... what's the hesitation?
From a business standpoint, it makes sense that Apple would be talking to competitors. Big companies often engage in discussions with outside vendors to collect requirements for their own products and to explore contingencies in the event they can’t execute on schedule.
Apple probably does have a semi-competitive LLM — I say “semi” because it isn’t being subjected to real-world users the way OpenAI and Anthropic, et al., products are. Your point about teaming up with a third party is likely the subject of hot debate inside Apple along all the usual dimensions: function, schedule, cost, and politics.
A bit of an overreaction given: "Both companies are training versions of their models that would work with Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers." This would be running privately on Apple's servers, just like current Siri requests. It's just the application layer to replace Siri.
Please be Claude. It’s the best model and last I heard they weren’t very profitable. An Apple partnership would be a big boost to their finances.
Well... if this is true I hope they allow Siri to be decoupled from other parts of iOS (for example, it must be enabled for carplay, which is dumb and shouldn't be nessisary) because I will be completely disabling SiriGPT. I don't care what contracts they have with Apple, if your trust that GPT won't mine your data, you're a fool. It will just be a matter of when they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, not if.
This is the same Bloomberg that claimed, a month ago, that Apple had a ChatGPT replacement "mostly working" and nearly ready to ship.
Did you miss where I said “if” at the beginning?
My reaction to this is going to depend on what the actual implementation is and how much I can not be a part of it if I don’t want to.
I get the feeling, apple is going to quietly not mention privacy around anything but Safari going forward.
Hardest possible pass. If Apple wants to make sure I fully disable Siri on all my devices and never, ever turn on Apple Intelligence, this is the way to do it.
I think they like the marketing of it so they will probably just gaslight around it.
They had a VP lying under oath. Nothing is beneath Apple anymore.
Times have changed in Cupertino.
I REALLY hope theyre not using a third party for the “personal context” stuff. The whole point was that it’s supposed to be secure and on device or in their private servers, right? Definitely won’t be using Siri or Apple Intelligence if this comes to pass
Don't worry.
As AI adoption picks up, original sources - newspapers, books, research papers - will more and more be written by (or with the help of) AI tools themselves. Which in turn get fed into newer and more powerful AI models again.
Creating a feedback loop in which AI's output and will eventually - slowly but surely - trickle down to "authoritative" sources, ultimately consolidating published truth and facts with AI's findings.
Soon “actually knowing things” is going to be a great skill to have.
That’s what happens when you have a visionless individual in charge.
This is not true. the M3 Ultra is great as an AI server. Apple can make whatever they want, they could make something even better for their servers. Apple Silicon is getting extremely popular for local AI models. Nvidia is overrated.
It's just the usual luddite boomer anti-AI nonsense around here. "Oh noes my Siri might get useful... better turn it off because AI bad." "NoBoDy AsKeD fOr ThIs"
yikes--- I use Siri regularly and this will be the deal breaker
Not shocking. Apple has a history of partnering with the developed names in an area, while working on their own in-house on the back end.
Google Maps, TomTom, WolframAlpha, Intel, Qualcomm, Weather Channel, etc.
Partner with OpenAi until the LLM Siri is ready and then phase out that partnership
Google Maps, TomTom, WolframAlpha, Intel, Qualcomm, Weather Channel, etc.
Partner with OpenAi until the LLM Siri is ready and then phase out that partnership
I use it every day. If you respect its limitations and learn to work with it it proves useful.
That's all right, Apple will turn on Apple Intelligence for you. The second time it happened I gave up and reverted to Sonoma.
As for "Do you not trust Apple?" Not really. Trusting any corporation is foolish.
Outside of designing elegant operating systems, Apple has never been great at software development. It was painfully obvious to anyone that has been following Siri over the years that Apple was completely out of their element and had no idea what to do or which direction to take. When they finally do implement a 3rd party solution (which is their only way to catch up at this point), they really need to toss the Siri name into the garbage and come up with a new moniker. The name Siri has negative connotations at this point.