Siri requires a lot of improvement and hopefully Apple will be able to release a much better version by WWDC with full set of features releasing along with iPhone 18. Waiting to see it in action!
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Apple's Siri Chatbot in iOS 27: Everything We Know
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This is my viewpoint also. I’m definitely grandparent age but excited to see what all Siri will be able to do for me in the accessibility space.
This was a good laugh, and certainly that’s the way Siri works on my iPad mini. But she’s much, much better on my M2 iPad Pro. I wonder why that is, and if it is a common phenomenon.
Bingo! HomePod is so much more limited that I hate to be in the room with both my iPad and the HomePod. What I did do, and what is working for me currently, is set the HomePod only to respond to hey, Siri and The iPads to respond to just plain SIRI. When the HomePod doesnt hear “hey” first, then it doesn’t respond.
when using Wikipedia, you can "see" the sources and do further verification. with current llm AI, you can't.
On multiple occasions Musk has openly admitted to tampering with Grok forcing it to produce preset replies to specific questions, on one occasion it even regurgitated the instructions it was given instead of the answer. I lost track of the number of times I personally saw Musk tweet how Grok would be “reeducated” on specific subjects that he seems obsessed with.
All I want is for requests for directions while using CarPlay to be smoother and reliable and the ability to perform natural language search across my data. I sure do not need or want a Siri that attempts to convince me it is a person, friend, or any of the other stuff that I read some people use these things for.
It didn’t occur to me that this would seem strange to a younger person. As a kid I knew around a dozen phone numbers for friends. When you dial them many times a week and you use a real dial, you just learn them. I still remember a couple phone numbers from those days, for me in the 70s.
I'll have to ask Siri what it thinks about the change 
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I am a Trekkie all the way back to the original series....so I'm all in. I like natural discussion with my tech. I also like being able to tell it what to do instead of tapping to open and searching for everything. I already like Gemini, so if Apple's application can make this a natural feeling and useful experience, as I said....I'm all in.
My hopes:
- Simple requests to turn on a light or set a reminder remain simple
- Recognition will improve
- Options will exist to turn off selected features similar to how you can turn off email summaries today but still use other features
- The deeper app integrations will allow many more apps to allow functions initiated by Siri. So my non-HomeKit garage door opening could be triggered by Siri for example
- Facts returned will be correct
- Answers and advice will just be wrong. It looks through email for a flight number or time but mistook another number for it. It advises falsely that rubbing your hands with snow will prevent frostbite.
- It will try to find or do more than I asked ultimately making tasks more complicated
It sounds like they're on the right track. AI is rocking the world. My life has completely changed because of it.
Apple's goal needs to be to make ChatGPT unnecessary because of Siri.
Apple's goal needs to be to make ChatGPT unnecessary because of Siri.
Ri-i-ight, sounds believable...
Apple, stop this madness already, open APIs to developers, let people who know what they're doing build phone AI.
Apple, stop this madness already, open APIs to developers, let people who know what they're doing build phone AI.
Wait, i though you could just buy iPhone 16 Pro and use Apple Intelligence, what happened, why do they need to build new chatbot? 😆
I sure hope the phone that was ‘built from the ground up’ for it will be able to run it, but we are now years away from that promise and still quite a bit out. At this point who knows?
I smell a GIGANTIC class action lawsuit if Apple somehow decides that these features need a newer model to run, and I don’t think Apple would allow that to happen giving the awful taste it would leave in people’s mouths.
I’m optimistic but I still have a feeling Apple has been severely underspeccing RAM (as they historically always have been) for this type of software/AI. I have a feeling this is certainly not going to be an advantage when it seems most flagship Android phones are shipping 12-16GB RAM these days. Apple just now released 12GB for the first time ever but largely still stuck at 8GB for the rest of the models.
These AI features can use up a lot of RAM so maybe that’s why we are hearing that iOS 27 is a ‘Snow Leopard’ year of optimization so that the OS is as efficient as possible to give more RAM for AI features.
Siri is shockingly stupid. It's embarrassing at this point.
If she finally gets smart enough to have a conversation about video games then that would make me happy. Even better, if she could learn to play games so I could have someone to play Co-op, seeing as I lack friends 🥺😢