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Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered By Google Gemini
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Why? They rely on Samsung among other companies to make Apple iPhones . Same for Macs and iPads. Is it still embarassing?
Uh...when you're paying billions they dont need to worry about their other business model. I'd also remind you that lots of businesses pay for Google Workspace, and Apple runs part of iCloud on Google's cloud product. Google has more than one business model believe it or not. Y'all are hilarious.
I, too, can't stand the Google OS on my Sony OLED.
Like you, I really enjoyed the Sony OSes of the past on their TVs.
I don't know, maybe because less is more sometimes, i belive at some point AI might be useful for some things, but in its current incarnations they are nothing but garbage.
"Making a model is trivial now." says "jimbobb24" on macrumors who I'm sure is an expert 😂
I don’t disagree with your post, your observations about precedents are good, but I actually wish that Apple would go back to licensing Google Maps data because even now, outside of the USA at least, Google has much better ground truth data on places and services than Apple has (shops, restaurants, bars, public transport routes & timetables etc). My ideal would be the Apple Maps app (nice graphics and good integration with other Apple apps) but using Google ground truth.
I’m assuming that this new Siri will access Apple ground truth if you ask it for directions, restaurant recommendations, the opening hours of some shop etc but again from my experiences with current Siri and with Google Assistant I would love it if the deal with Google meant that the new Siri had access to the superior Google ground truth.
Yes, I got that, though thank you for reiterating that point. My disappointment lay in the fact that a 'privacy focused' firm needs to pay truckloads of cash to a data monster in order to develop a platform. Clearly, privacy doesn't pay.
"Sorry, I can't help with that but I found this on the bed for you"
This is the best option and many of felt it was the obvious option from the beginning. Let’s remember regardless that these models are not living up to expectations or whether this is the path forward. The reality is that Apple would need to join everyone in the race to build the infrastructure of massive AI data centers that are at the center of what can be a bubble. They will need to build these data centers or buy capacity from them.
A race to for locations where they can get cheap energy without having to build their own nuclear reactors or be faced with the inevitable regulations that will make it harder and more expensive to build them.
It’s not as simple as people think. They will also have to face the backlash from consumer groups for making utility bills skyrocket and the excessive use of water to cool the Nvidia furnaces.
A race to for locations where they can get cheap energy without having to build their own nuclear reactors or be faced with the inevitable regulations that will make it harder and more expensive to build them.
It’s not as simple as people think. They will also have to face the backlash from consumer groups for making utility bills skyrocket and the excessive use of water to cool the Nvidia furnaces.
is this satirical? I’m not even linking to the blog post on PCC for a third time. I swear to god half yall on this forum just wanna be purposefully ignorant. whatever
Apple IS building its own big data centers, containing its own Apple-manufactured servers, on which it will run Google's AI LLM. Its Apple's "Private Cloud Compute" initiative. Those data centers may not need to be as massive as some others, since Apple isn't planning on including a general, universal chatbot capability for Siri/Apple Intelligence, much less the entire world, though I wouldn't be surprised if they change their mind about that at some point.
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I haven't read through all 11 pages of this thread but I think this will be fine. Even years ago before AI became popular the Google Homes worked so much better than Siri, so I think this will be more than capable of doing the tasks you would use Siri for that it can't seem to do now.
That's crazy that they couldn't make their own. I've been using Gemini Pro some for basic tasks and research and it will be good enough for most daily uses. If you ask it to research most anything you personally know that is very niche it will take a while and create a paper that looks and reads great but is all wrong. I'm a composer and violinist and it gets a lot wrong there. I also have a degree in math and it gets most anything I throw at it correct in that field. I asked it to fix a VBA macro for an import utility that wasn't working correctly and it spit out code that worked.
