What do you mean? Every year they showcase lots of women and diverse talent at the developer conference. Why not bring in the team that re-designed the Photos app and “let them loose”?
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Report: Apple's Next-Gen Version of Siri Is 'On Par' With ChatGPT
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I'll believe this when I see pigs flying over a blue moon. Thankfully in EU we will be able to choose our default digital assistant in iOS/MacOS soon. I've mapped Google Gemini to my action button in the meantime and disabled Siri. Siri is utterly useless.
SilmarilFinder
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Don’t believe it until I use on my phone. Sorry, Apple is at “that” category now.
Andres Cantu
macrumors 68040
Call it anything else except Siri. At this point, that name is tarnished.
theinstructor
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iZac
macrumors 68040
Reminds me of all those frequent Qualcomm and Intel boasts that their upcoming chipset is just as good as the current baseline Apple Silicon.
Wasn't there an article right before this, something like: "Apple will not announce AI progress beforehand" ?
So now Siri is Lord AI.
So now Siri is Lord AI.
257Loner
macrumors 6502a
Apple is not good at software. They should opt to only provide top qauilty tools for third party developers and open their systems for them to develop state of the art (system)software for at least macOS. Apple should stick to hardware only, maybe the most basic operating system. All Apple can and will do is bling-bling. So AI will onyl be bling-bling demo quality to show off. And then 'abandon and forget', only minor polish each year to keep them suckers shelling out.
azentropy
macrumors 601
Sure it is. Love Apple but I'm dumbfounded with how far behind Siri is and has been for years.
anthonymoody
macrumors 68040
tubular
macrumors 65816
I think Apple should consider renaming Siri. And, given AI’s tendency to regurgitate whatever it’s heard, no matter how senseless and cataclysmically inaccurate, I think the new name should be Mark Gurman.
This is basically what I expect from Apple. They have all the resources in the world and every ability to unseat Chat GPT and make AI chatbot into a feature instead of a product. A feature we're already paying for with Apple One subscription.
zombierunner
macrumors 68000
I just hope Apple take their time and don’t rush releases. This is how they have been for the past 25 years or so. They may not always be first, but when they do release something it was almost always better than others.
GhostLodes
macrumors member
At this point, Siri being equivalent to Alexa in 2019 would be a huge improvement.
Dragging it down for who?
100% of Apple customers know what Siri is.
A huge chunk of them use it for innocuous things, that work just fine.
A microscopic percentage of users know anything about the Siri debacle, or have the kind of fatuous issues that people on forums like this moan about.
To date, Siri is just a voice command feature with a name. It gets done basic tasks like playing songs or setting timers. What it needs to become is what ChatGPT is, and that exactly what Apple is working on doing. Once it does, people will gradually discover that Siri can do more than it used to.
maruyama
macrumors regular
The *only* way out of this is with a Beats-scale acquisition, and this is even more important than iTunes competing with Spotify ever was.
Perplexity has its own foundation model. It's the only lab small enough (i.e. not OpenAI or Anthropic) to fit as an Apple subsidiary and not trigger antitrust scrutiny. If Cook isn't in talks to acquire them, I don't know what he's thinking Apple is going to do on its own.
Perplexity has its own foundation model. It's the only lab small enough (i.e. not OpenAI or Anthropic) to fit as an Apple subsidiary and not trigger antitrust scrutiny. If Cook isn't in talks to acquire them, I don't know what he's thinking Apple is going to do on its own.