Actually, what it has is the benefit of product recognition. Just have the marketing people say Siri has been polished hard with one of Erfon’s polishing cloths and it is clean and bright and shiny and up to task now. That’s all that’s needed.
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Yeah…
The article says that everything is going well, but at the end, that nearly everyone there to do with AI at Apple is jumping ship.
Something isn’t adding up.
It feels like the people currently working on this at Apple are more focussed on Gemini’s integration with apple’s platforms.
Like some others have said, I would not be surprised if Google ends up powering all of this.
Even the ‘search and understand your stuff’ agent, which Apple could pitch that it’s all running on apple’s private cloud compute servers (which are probably on Google cloud anyway).
Google 1, Apple 0.
Agreed. Siri is still stuck in the early part of the last decade as far as its capabilities go.Siri is currently just stupid, absolutely unusable. And I think it's outrageous of Apple to have promised an AI solution for the release of the iPhone 16 Pro (that was THE reason for me to buy it) and now only offer this solution over a year later... and certainly only for English-speaking countries
Meanwhile, I can have a complex conversation about quantum computing with Gemini & ChatGPT.
I've watched enough gemini vs siri vs samsung vs chatgpt videos now to know that 3 of those put out advancements regularly that are starting to come across as black magic, and one of them isn't. Go on, guess which.
I use an iphone, and i get by, by telling myself i don't need those features in my life anyway 😆 but i can entirely imagine a parallel universe version of myself that uses a pixel that swears by some of those features. Ignorance is bliss for many of us apple users.
What a wonderful post. Agree with everything.
I’m going to predict that around 2030 or so, Google and Apple ‘merge’ - meaning Google buys Apple.
Why? Because by 2030 or so, it becomes apparent that AI is one of the key technologies of the 21st century and Google are one of the world leaders in it. Yet they’ve always trailed a little in producing hardware that the market loves.
Meanwhile, Apple has struggled to match its peers in AI, yet still produces hardware that people love - with an enviable supply chain.
So Wall Street arranges for them to get hitched.
"Meet The All New AI-powered Siri, The Assistant That Learns You. Coming 2032."
So Apple is preferring Google, because they pay well?
Where did the privacy first policy go?
If I would want Google AI I wouldn't buy an iPhone.
Where did the privacy first policy go?
If I would want Google AI I wouldn't buy an iPhone.
While they actually sold out of the search engine, they can only buy the Gemini model. Of course, it will be code written by Google; in principle, it will be more like Gemini but adapted to run on Apple's closed and private servers. The question, of course, is whether Apple will receive the code or a ready-to-deploy product. In the latter case, it will have to rely on Google not only for privacy issues but also for any malfunctions.
Siri still dumber than alpha version of Google assistant from decades ago.
Not to mention still lacking support for many languages for example polish.
Not to mention still lacking support for many languages for example polish.
Yeah. Latency really is a critical issue that any home automation and/or smart speaker ecosystem needs to pay a lot of attention to. I transitioned from Google Nest devices to Amazon devices about 5 years ago even though I thought (and still think) that Google Assistant is significantly smarter than Amazon Alexa. I still have a few of my old Google Nest devices active in a few rooms and whenever Alexa gives me a rubbish answer Google Assistant pretty much always gives me what I want so I do re-validate my opinion fairly often. One of the two main reasons for my switch was how much faster an Alexa device was to perform an action (turn on/off a light, answer a question etc) although in fairness I think Google has got a lot faster in the last 5 years.
The other reason for my switch was how much better the Alexa devices were at hearing me in noisy environments hence my other belief that the quality of the mic array and the initial audio processing is also incredibly important for any smart speaker since that is the first hurdle to get over when interacting with it.
more like:
Siri: “You'll have to unlock your iPhone first” 🙄
Let’s hope her world knowledge will help more with crosswords.
Keeps the share price buoyant. It’s all about the investors, not the Guinea pigs buying their stuff.
It only requires unlocking for queries that involve your personal information. Do Google and Alexa allow personal information access to anybody who asks?