If it remains that simple, you are correct. But I expect it will eventually take a more insidious approach by analyzing your queries over time to attempt to determine changes in your current state of mind, then offer you “support” you did not ask for simply because it determined “you need it.”
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Google Gemini-Powered Siri Will Reportedly Have These 7 New Features
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So, I've got Alexa+ on my Echo devices. This morning, it showed a notification. When I asked it about that, initially she said "A package has been delivered." While it was still active, I said "What package?" and it actually looked up the details of the package and told me. That's useful.
But when I tell Siri on CarPlay to play some movie trailer music and it gives me something else, that's not useful.
But when I tell Siri on CarPlay to play some movie trailer music and it gives me something else, that's not useful.
Apple is going to be running Gemini models on their own servers. This isn't going to be much different privacy-wise from an Apple developed model.
I have nothing serious to say, just that your avatar is hilarious🤣🤣
ChatGPT was supposed to be a stop gap until Apple's own LLMs became ready back in 2024. But since that's taking longer than expected, is looks like Apple will be running Google's models themselves so they can actually implement the system level AI features that they demoed back then. I'm guessing OpenAI either wouldn't let Apple run GPT models on Apple servers or Google made a better offer. The ChatGPT integration was always API level and it was never deeper than that.
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Siri is dumb because current Siri is fundamentally still using the original iPhone 4s voice assistant architecture with no LLM (other than when it asks chatGPT), which means each feature has to be trained separately with predefined keywords. After 15 years of duct taping features on top it's basically a hot mess with no reliability. It's a step above fixed wording voice commands but not by much. LLMs are fundamentally different and even older models are capable of doing something like emotional support. I don't see how LLM Siri would be any different, unless Apple explicitly restricts this use case (which I think they should).
Thanks! A fellow MacRumors forum member made it for me on my direction. They really knocked it out of the park! I wish I could remember their username, but I think it has something 'Vega' in it, maybe.
I maintain my position that the vast majority of users do not want to talk to the computer.
What I’d actually want to do ist give Siri more natural commands for home accessories and combine the commands.
For example, „stopp playback in 30 minutes and dim the lights to 20% in the bedroom“. Or „turn all the lights off in 10 minutes“. You have to go through hoops to achieve something like this even years after this stuff has been introduced. If I have to create an automation for every single thing, it’s not smart home, it’s dumb home that only does what you program it to do.
For example, „stopp playback in 30 minutes and dim the lights to 20% in the bedroom“. Or „turn all the lights off in 10 minutes“. You have to go through hoops to achieve something like this even years after this stuff has been introduced. If I have to create an automation for every single thing, it’s not smart home, it’s dumb home that only does what you program it to do.
I'm so happy to live in a world where I can get "emotional support" from Apple and Google 🤗.
I love you so much, Apple and Google !
How much ? $9.99 a month ? Depression Plus Pro for $14.99 ? Hanging Detection in Apple Watch ?
2026 is so amazing, already !
I love you so much, Apple and Google !
How much ? $9.99 a month ? Depression Plus Pro for $14.99 ? Hanging Detection in Apple Watch ?
2026 is so amazing, already !
Right... And, just for you, you will be able to make the action button ask grok to bikinize your neighbor's kids.
This is so sad. Have we not learned that robots shouldn't be a place that we go for emotional guidance? Humanity is in such a sad place.
The most important feature, is the one where you can completely disable it.
You mean just like ChatGPT and Gemini? Were you outraged when Netflix sexualized children with the show Cuties?
so they're gonna slow roll the features everyone else has had forever like usual and drop the like its fresh and new. Tim Cook has gotten so good at that.
Feel like there is an AI for everything today. Kind of reminds me of the heydays of apps and the AppStore. All of a sudden there was an app for everything. I remember a colleague who bought a water bottle with software on board which reminded him through the app that it was time to drink.
Come to think of that … whoever made that waterbottle/app combo can probably re-use it today and just put AI in front of it.
Come to think of that … whoever made that waterbottle/app combo can probably re-use it today and just put AI in front of it.
One thing of which I am absolutely certain is that it cannot provide emotional support.
We can't (yet) monetize social interactions between humans. So let's get them hooked on socialization with our machine instead!
That is not a privacy risk.
It is an intellectual property rights risk: model generating something that violates rights of a (legal) person whose original work was in the training set.
Certain governments are already opposing AI providing 'emotional support' as something quite dangerous for individuals, particularly children.
Y'all need to stop overreacting to the emotional support thing, lol. This wasn't an official press release from Apple. This was a paywalled article that is probably just putting 2 and 2 together about what a Gemini-powered Siri will be able to do. LLM's are capable of weird stuff like this... big whoop, old news. I highly doubt Apple will actually advertise the revamped Siri as having emotional support features. That weird stuff just comes with the territory.
On the bright side, it's not chatGPT, which is a big win. Gemini probably is the best current model out there (though Grok is surprisingly good if you can get past the Elon-bias), so I think this is a lesser of evils situation for sure.
On the bright side, it's not chatGPT, which is a big win. Gemini probably is the best current model out there (though Grok is surprisingly good if you can get past the Elon-bias), so I think this is a lesser of evils situation for sure.
