No one, even here in this thread, is crucifying anyone. Check your hyperbole.
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Apple Says Personalized Siri Features Shown at WWDC Last Year Were 'Real' and 'Working'
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No one, even here in this thread, is crucifying anyone. Check your hyperbole.
Yeah, maybe you should stick to this in the Politics forum, because the idea that anything Gruber says is intense enough to be 'hate speech' does a disservice to actual hate speech. Maybe you just don't agree with him and it makes you cranky?
I’ll believe it when I see it. If it’s working even half way why not show it? Show that you’ve got something, anything, besides a pre-cooked demo.
Current national events and elected officials behavior does not support what you are saying, though I wish it did.
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They were real, but they lost them!
They should have started the keynote asking if anyone had seeen them.
I was rolling my eyes when they said it didn't meet their high bar for Siri. Have they used Siri? There is no bar.
They should have started the keynote asking if anyone had seeen them.
I was rolling my eyes when they said it didn't meet their high bar for Siri. Have they used Siri? There is no bar.
Isn't there an ongoing class action lawsuit about this AI stuff?
Did Apple always have a podcast studio at WWDC? Looks like a lot of people were recording from it.
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And Apple just learned a huge legal lesson about not being forthcoming in court proceedings. Doubt they would repeat that here so publicly.
They are owning it by saying the demo was real? You do realize the plan is to release the future 2 years after announce and even after 2 years it might not work as promised?
There isn't enough room for another Apple Fellow, since Phil's stomach takes up all of the room.
Yeah but these are not court proceedings, they are just laying out a public narrative that could be helpful to them later in court.
I’m wondering how bad the new Siri is that they declined to release it. If the feeling is that current siri sucks is the new one that much worse? If not, they should have gone ahead and released it, I doubt it was worse than people’s perception of current Siri is.
They were as real as the first iPhone’s demo — carefully crafted, pre-planned sequences so as not to crash the OS onstage.
This might explain why they cut John Gruber off. Criticism is fine, and he’s ditched plenty over the years, but to call them liars and cheats went too far. Or it could also be that they passed on his WWDC invite months ago and then he went nuclear. Gruber has a big head and couldn’t take the rejection.
Craig’s explanation makes perfect sense. The new Siri worked in development testing but once they went off the beaten path and expanded testing to a wider group, it didn’t work well with the idiosyncrasies of everyone. Then they realized that their approach wasn’t going to work and had to start over.
This is believable because it’s already happened at Apple and with Siri, no less. Iteration after iteration of Siri turned out not to be scalable and had to constantly be reengineered. I count at least 4 major rewrites and approaches to Siri before we even got to the Apple Intelligence era.
Craig’s explanation makes perfect sense. The new Siri worked in development testing but once they went off the beaten path and expanded testing to a wider group, it didn’t work well with the idiosyncrasies of everyone. Then they realized that their approach wasn’t going to work and had to start over.
This is believable because it’s already happened at Apple and with Siri, no less. Iteration after iteration of Siri turned out not to be scalable and had to constantly be reengineered. I count at least 4 major rewrites and approaches to Siri before we even got to the Apple Intelligence era.
Doesn't he explicitly say that they're not starting over and they're just taking longer to finish building the thing they were already building all along?
Craig in that interview had a lot of tells that make be believe he was just saying a specific narrative that apple's PR department decided beforehand.
I just can't imagine a top executive of any company saying "Yes, we announced features that were mockups and did not in fact have working versions of the feature"
I just can't imagine a top executive of any company saying "Yes, we announced features that were mockups and did not in fact have working versions of the feature"
That's one possible reason. The other reason is maybe the didn't snub him. The F1 movie premier is the exact same time as Gruber's The Talk Show. Gruber did post (on X I think) that he did get an invite to the F1 movie premier
Probably why Apple's one of the most valuable companies in the world. Maybe we could all use some acid
According to Gruber the screening is in the Steve Jobs theater at Apple Park. Happening at the same time as his Talk Show Live. One can’t help but think that was intentional on Apple’s part.
Apparently Federighi first became aware of the “quality issues” when he asked Siri if the rain in Lillehammer would delay his Mom’s Delta flight. After a short silence, Siri replied, “Now playing your mom’s favorite song, ‘Soft And Wet,’ by MC Hammer.”
It turns out, that was not his Mom’s favorite song.
It turns out, that was not his Mom’s favorite song.
Siri is now a toxic brand for Apple and they would be wise to name their AI assistant something else. I want Tim Apple to take Siri to the back of his barn and shoot it.