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In my language, Swedish, Siri has in fact become worse for every hear of updates. Simple things like calling someome or asking about the the weather fails with either nothing back, Im working on it or that it cant fint the contact.
I dare to say no one is using it since it fails about 30% of the time.
While Siri in Swedish is hit & miss for many queries, the thing that it spectacularly fails *every* single time is Intercom. I 've given up and I use the button from the Home app nowadays...
 
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Depending on what’s announced at WWDC, I’m growing more inclined to jump ship with every new bug (too many recently) and snails pace progress. They’re the richest tech company with some of the most dated software.
 
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We just saw how Google search powered by AI went. Telling people that eating rocks was good and pregnant women smoking was ok too. LLMs are not perfect whether by Google or Apple. Apple should take all the time it wants, this is the beginning of something, and there is no rush. Google's diminishing reputation was not helped by rushing AI into their products. Apple does not need a fiasco like that.
Again if you look at Gemini/AI on Android, it's been working perfectly for years long before it was even called gemini or bard.

Since the Pixel 6, Google has been doing amazing things with ML/AI on Photos, image editing, assistant, etc and lead the industry while Apple focused on Animoji, widgets and action buttons...
 
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Depending on what’s announced at WWDC, I’m growing more inclined to jump ship with every new bug (too many recently) and snails pace progress. They’re the richest tech company with some of the most dated software.
This

I use iPhone 15 Pro as my main but whenever I pick up my pixel to do certain things, it's lightyears ahead for useful features in the software.

I feel like the iPhone has not changed in a decade software wise.
 
This

I use iPhone 15 Pro as my main but whenever I pick up my pixel to do certain things, it's lightyears ahead for useful features in the software.

I feel like the iPhone has not changed in a decade software wise.

The only thing that keeps me “stuck” is the ecosystem. I’m not a fan of Samsung and neither they nor Google has a great laptop replacement. Apple knows this and that’s a big reason why they can stall. We need more well-rounded competition.
 
Changing the icon colors is a MASSIVE improvement and something we have all wanted for more than a decade. It’s a HUGE achievement that Apple finally cracked the nut on how to do that. It’s truly amazing tech.

Btw. Don’t expect that this feature will be full functional until 18.3.7.

It will not be available in 18. In 18.1 you can set icons to be transparent.


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Agree.
 
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Depending on what’s announced at WWDC, I’m growing more inclined to jump ship with every new bug (too many recently) and snails pace progress. They’re the richest tech company with some of the most dated software.
What you don't realize is every bug Google or MS (or any company) has isn't turned in to a news article and blasted around the internet like Apple.
 
What you don't realize is every bug Google or MS (or any company) has isn't turned in to a news article and blasted around the internet like Apple.

That’s not lost on me, but if I’m going to put up with service outages and bugs, I might as well enjoy something that’s more advanced.
 
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I'm a family therapist. Within the past week two separate clients told me they'd been using ChatGPT to help them draft communications to their family members in difficult situations, specifically asking ChatGPT to write responses that were respectful. Both clients reported that the tasks given to ChatGPT made the job of how to say what they wanted to say much easier. They knew WHAT they wanted to say, but wanted help in HOW to say it in a more effective way. I am (mostly) glad LLMs are here. I think we are going to go through a few years of a rough patch to sort out how to identify hallucinations and misinformation, just like we are now doing with social media. I am also hopeful that LLMs will dramatically help with scientific/medical research and language translation. If it also helps with UI enhancements in a way that fundamentally improves how we interact with technology, I'd consider it icing on the cake.
 
Um mathematician here



That one doesn't really make sense to me. A percentage of something or an integer divided by another one makes sense. What you asked is ambiguous so it's not going to answer it.

Ask better questions



Prefix decimals properly and it will understand it. We don't write .9, we write 0.9.

The other things, yeah that.
You don't have to prefix with a zero. I just did several trials of "calculate .XX divided by/multiplied/times by Y" and it always produced the correct answer.
 
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No it's terrible. Throw some group theory at it.

If H is a group and G is a subgroup of H and A is a subgroup of G and H then what is F?

Eventually it makes some assumption that A = F after rambling on about possible interpretations of what F is.

It has no idea what the hell it's on about and the output is misleading and incorrect but sounds authoritative. It literally makes less sense than me after a few piña coladas.

Also you can throw some fun at it:

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It doesn't understand the difference between kelvin and Celsius and if you feed it a bad prompt, it'll just carry on rather than tell you that you're an idiot.

0K = -273.15oC
You can correct it though and it improves the answer:

You are correct. Absolute zero is 0 Kelvin, and it is the lowest possible temperature, where all thermal motion of atoms theoretically ceases. Temperatures below 0 Kelvin are not physically meaningful within our current understanding of thermodynamics.

Given that clarification, at 0 Kelvin:

  1. Intrinsic Carrier Concentration: The intrinsic carrier concentration in a semiconductor would be zero because there is no thermal energy to excite electrons across the band gap. The semiconductor would act as an insulator.
  2. Resistivity: The resistivity of the semiconductor material would be extremely high due to the absence of free charge carriers.
  3. Impedance: The impedance of the diode would be extremely high because it would not conduct any current in the absence of charge carriers. Essentially, the diode would behave as an open circuit.
So, at 0 Kelvin, the impedance of a diode would theoretically be infinitely high.
 
Oh I cannot wait for Apple to start enabling features based upon my usage, I will be spending more time in Setup disabling them.
 
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Not going to happen.

OpenAI will not deliver the supposed gains that they are selling. Microsoft will have realised their CoPilot pyramid scheme isn't playing out and is actually a net financial loss that has detracted from other product value and existing customers and the board will throw Satya out and switch focus in a mass panic to security to retain government revenue in the cloud. Also NVidia's hyped valuation will crash when the market reaches saturation. About this time everyone will discover they don't actually need this current fad of "AI" and all it does is hallucinate stuff within a limited window of credibility. Also government regulation will catch up and kick the market in the balls.

(these are actual market positions that people are playing at the moment)

Edit: Apple are playing the usual conservative engineering policy game that they do which is adopting mature outcomes from the hype, you know the ones that don't make you drive off a cliff or replace the moon with a donut on thursdays on your camera.

Your post would fit in with someone dismissing the internet as a 'fad' and not useful as it started being 'mainstream'.

Ai is here to stay, it's not a fad and is today useful, you have to be aware of it's limits and take caution, not believing every answer at face value.

AI will continue to improve and become more reliable. AI is somewhat a gold rush and a lot of software vendors think they need Ai to compete and will include any AI in their product, even if it doesn't add that much value.

However, the environment will consolidate as AI continues to mature and improve, removing hallucinations as time goes on.

AI isn't going anywhere, it's here to stay, and definitely not a fad, no matter what the naysayers think.
 
In other words, Apple's just managing people's expectations.
In the light of how poor Siri is, probably a wise thing…


To make this happen, Apple engineers had to rearchitect Siri's underlying software with large language models or LLMs, which is also the technology that's been used for chatbots like ChatGPT.
🙄 Good grief!
How about redesign?

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The AI Agent feature I've been commenting about:



A scenario:

User
:
Siri, I'd like to have dinner with my girlfriend tonight at that place I walked by last week with the red umbrella. I took a photo of it.

Siri:
Code:
Looks at your Photos (offline), finds the red umbrella, geotagged,
locates the restaurant in Apple Maps (online),
brings up OpenTable (online) cues up a reservation after looking at your Calendar (offline).

That was Sandro's on College St. I've found you a reservation for 2 at 8pm. You get off work at 5, that should give you enough time to get home, get ready and head over to Sandro's. Ana's schedule also shows her free. Would you like me to book it?

User:
Yes... no, wait, can we do 8:30 instead? I'd like to get a bottle of wine, does Sandro's have a corking fee?

Siri:
Code:
Looks up OpenTable (online) to see if there's an 8:30pm reservation.
Looks up Sandro's website (online) and searches for a corking fee.
Looks up Apple Maps for nearby wine stores,
finds one that's on the Ritual app (online) so they can can bag your wine for pickup,
finds that you've ordered 2 different wines via Ritual.

Sandro's has a $6 corking fee. I found you an 8:30 reservation. Would you like Mateus Rose or Wolf Blass - Yellow Label Sauvignon? I can reserve it at the Wine Cellar, a short walk from Sandro's.

User:
Let's do Mateus. Go ahead and book the reservation please.

Siri:
Code:
Goes to OpenTable, places the reservation on your behalf.
Goes to Ritual, orders a bottle of Mateus Rose for pickup at 8pm.
Adds an event in your calendar with directions to the Wine Cellar
and another at 8:30pm with directions from there to Sandro's.
Creates a calendar invite for your girlfriend.

All set! Your Mateus Rose will be ready for pickup at 8pm, Sandro's at 8:30 on College St. and I've sent an invite to Ana.



Apple's advantage in AI is the App Store, far larger than any other platform. If Siri can operate those apps for you (and their published papers show us that's where they're headed) then it'll be far more capable than anything openAI has done.
Ok chill out. No one here is talking about Siri in 2125. 😉
 
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The AI Agent feature I've been commenting about:



A scenario:

User
:
Siri, I'd like to have dinner with my girlfriend tonight at that place I walked by last week with the red umbrella. I took a photo of it.

Siri:
Code:
Looks at your Photos (offline), finds the red umbrella, geotagged,
locates the restaurant in Apple Maps (online),
brings up OpenTable (online) cues up a reservation after looking at your Calendar (offline).

That was Sandro's on College St. I've found you a reservation for 2 at 8pm. You get off work at 5, that should give you enough time to get home, get ready and head over to Sandro's. Ana's schedule also shows her free. Would you like me to book it?

User:
Yes... no, wait, can we do 8:30 instead? I'd like to get a bottle of wine, does Sandro's have a corking fee?

Siri:
Code:
Looks up OpenTable (online) to see if there's an 8:30pm reservation.
Looks up Sandro's website (online) and searches for a corking fee.
Looks up Apple Maps for nearby wine stores,
finds one that's on the Ritual app (online) so they can can bag your wine for pickup,
finds that you've ordered 2 different wines via Ritual.

Sandro's has a $6 corking fee. I found you an 8:30 reservation. Would you like Mateus Rose or Wolf Blass - Yellow Label Sauvignon? I can reserve it at the Wine Cellar, a short walk from Sandro's.

User:
Let's do Mateus. Go ahead and book the reservation please.

Siri:
Code:
Goes to OpenTable, places the reservation on your behalf.
Goes to Ritual, orders a bottle of Mateus Rose for pickup at 8pm.
Adds an event in your calendar with directions to the Wine Cellar
and another at 8:30pm with directions from there to Sandro's.
Creates a calendar invite for your girlfriend.

All set! Your Mateus Rose will be ready for pickup at 8pm, Sandro's at 8:30 on College St. and I've sent an invite to Ana.



Apple's advantage in AI is the App Store, far larger than any other platform. If Siri can operate those apps for you (and their published papers show us that's where they're headed) then it'll be far more capable than anything openAI has done.
Google's Duplex already demonstrated something like this albeit a simple 1 step task. This is when AI becomes useful. Except in my case it won't have a clue about my wife's schedule as she doesn't use online calendars.

The only issue I then face is waiting for it to be released in the UK. All Duplex can do in the UK is phone businesses and check their opening times to update Google Maps :(
 
Why should they rush? Most average users don’t prioritize AI features as much as we tech enthusiasts do. We see the possibilities and get excited about them.

I’m fully invested in Apple’s ecosystem and love it, but I recently got a Pixel 8 to try out its AI features. While these features are cool, many aren't essential in day to day usage. For example, I like the "best take" feature for group photos and having Gemini as an assistant is far more capable than Siri is right, despite its occasional hallucinations.

All I’m really hoping for are some improvements to Siri and better photo features on iOS. But Apple needs to speed up their development to keep up with Google and OpenAI.
 
I think alot of the people who work on Siri quit. their office was being relocated. from San Diego to Austin tx or something like that??
 
why do we have to wait for everything new and exciting when everybody else already has it?
I am getting rather annoyed with Apple not taking risks and releasing competitive hardware and software...
They are lagging way behind and it's clearly affecting sales and people are switching to Android.
It's time for something new.
 
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