Other Do you think Apple will ever upgrade Siri significantly?

[Jackbequickly]

Siri is just ok for the most the basic needs but is very disappointing. She could be so much more, a lot more. With AI coming around the corner, it is Apple’s chance to really make Siri the industry leader. Come on Apple, it would be a huge advantage to Apple users if Siri could actually think!

 

[assquatch]

Yes I think they will. There was just this news: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/15/apple-engineers-working-on-chatgpt-like-ai/

Siri has been bad but not materially worse than the competition. Sure, Siri is the worst voice assistant relative to Google's and Amazon's, but in absolute terms, all incarnations of voice assistant tech has been a flop. None of these assistants are useful for anything more than egg-timers, weather, music control and a narrow scope of quick facts and party tricks.

Until recently, the resources required to one-up the competition would be wasted on a "so what?" upgrade. I think GPT and LLMs have shown us what is now possible, and it will be a very short time before this approach is leveraged in voice assistants to unlock significantly more capable responses with far less defensive coding a rigid if-this-then-that pathways.

It's very "Apple" to wait for a breakthrough inflection point and then polish and ship it. I'd be surprised if we didn't see it happen in a year.

 

[antiprotest]

I think recent events have added pressure on Apple to upgrade Siri. But Apple is slow. So by the time they upgrade Siri, it is likely that others will have made another leap, or two, or three. The narrative is always that Apple is slow but takes time to do it right. But this has become an excuse for falling behind. And the fact is, they don't do things right even when they take their time.

 

[MacDaddyPanda]

I'm sure there's a SiriGPT in the works. Or whatever they'll call it.