Gemini live is amazing you can have a proper conversation with it, so much better than anything apple and Siri can do
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Apple Working on 'LLM Siri' for 2026 Launch
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It’s not really that smart at alarm setting. Recently I tried to change the time for an existing named alarm, and instead of changing it, Siri created an additional one with the same name (as I found out when the old one went off unexpectedly).
I also haven’t found a way to have Siri list (or delete) all inactive alarms (and only those), although it’s possible to have it list all active alarms. It’s also not possible to have it turn off/on all active/inactive alarms in one go. It starts enumerating alarms and asking which one I want to turn on or off, and doesn’t understand “both” or “all of them”. It’s an exercise in frustration.
And one time it apparently got into a state where it was processing two alarm-related requests at once and asking questions for each of them. Me saying “hey Siri, stop” would alternate between it asking the question for the one request or for the other.
We’re gonna see RAM capacity skyrocket.
12GB iPhones aren’t far away.
12GB iPhones aren’t far away.
I think whoever wrote this totally misunderstood what is happening with Siri and ChatGPT. ChatGPT won't be doing ANY tasks on the phone, never mind "complex tasks". It's there for world knowldege, and that is it. It's going to be no different to invoking ChatGPT now via it's own app (possibly worse as if you're a subscriber you have an advanced voice mode) - it won't be doing anything on the device, it'll replace "I can Google that" with sending it to ChatGPT for an answer.
Siri is so bad right now, Apple is 10 years behind Google. It's that bad. Nowhere to go but up.
The iPhones need 16-24gb of ram first, then they can worry about AI. Plus, what happens when Siri gets pissed off because she doesn’t have enough ram?
Absolutely insane how late to the game they are on this lol.
Just scrap siri entirely, its cooked. Their whole AI effort in general is a joke, very clearly theres hundreds of teams all fighting eachother internally with no steve jobs/elon type figure with a vision directing everybody towards a goal
Just scrap siri entirely, its cooked. Their whole AI effort in general is a joke, very clearly theres hundreds of teams all fighting eachother internally with no steve jobs/elon type figure with a vision directing everybody towards a goal
Hey now, just because the basis of Apple's operating system, their web browser, their music player app, their professional video editing app, their coding/IDE app, and their digital audio workstation app are all based on previously produced products from other companies or open source endeavors, and just because whenever Apple tries to rewrite these apps from scratch they either lose functionality or perform terribly, doesn't mean Apple sucks at writing code. /s
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Or buy yourself some great quality "dumb" speakers and let Siri in your phone/iPad/AppleTV be the "smarts."
Smart speakers are like iMac- when any one part goes or the Corp decides it's time- it's over. "Dumb" speakers can sound just as good decades from now… and “another record quarter” objectives can’t dictate any vintaging decisions. Plus, you'll have ever-smarter Siri (hypothetically based on this rumor) on those other Apple devices anyway.
HP is NOT the only way. There's PLENTY of speakers in the world. And the "smarts" part already lives in the other main lines you likely already own. Use them there and NOT have to regularly replace a kind of technology that can otherwise last DECADES. Bonus: about HALF of the purchase that would be profit for Apple can instead have most of that money buying the speaker (because many speaker sellers have much less than towards 50% margin).
Bonus 2: you won't be limited to only Stereo speakers. Start with some good "dumb" speakers and- optionally- over time, add to it to develop up to a true ATMOS setup.
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Pity the alarms themselves aren't reliable, and a $9 clock still beats a $1000+ device...
Apple Intelligence doesn’t make any changes to the current Siri, besides just tapping into ChatGPT. Really, the only changes they made to Siri in iOS 18 is the new UI, being able to understand you better if you stumble your words, and ability to listen to follow up questions. But the actual AI part of Siri is largely unchanged.
The sad truth is Apple used to be the best in the game for everything; they were not the first but always the best, this new Apple isn’t either the first or better after. It’s so behind it can’t even make something better eventually
A new Siri... the old one isn't even funny to make fun of anymore. Today, I was talking to someone and Siri thought it had been called (it was not), and somehow thought it was asked to turn on the TV, which it did. How nice. The best part, though, is I then called Siri and asked it to turn off the TV, to which it replied "you will need to unlock your phone to do that". (phone was locked throughout this adventure, as I was talking to someone in person).
So a new Siri... looking forward to a new range of misadventures. Hopefully some of them make me laugh.
So a new Siri... looking forward to a new range of misadventures. Hopefully some of them make me laugh.
It’s google. I’ll pass.
That's great news. Will is finally be able to give us answers instead of pointing us to Google results for almost everything?
It will probably be announced in 2026, and released in 6 parts over 2027 into 2028!
Even hardcore fans have to admit that the 14-year pioneering role with Siri was a bit of a waste
How was it a waste? Siri set the benchmark for personal assistants. It's been immensely useful in a variety of ways of millions of people. But it needs to evolve, as the industry has leapt ahead. No doubt.
macOS 6, 7, 8 and 9 were immensely helpful at their time, but they, too, needed to be replaced. This is no different.
ChatGTP was in development for 10 years before it was released to the public in its current form.
lol I made a similar comment before I read this one but forgot the “Plus”