Absolutely NOT. Privacy is far too important to compromise.
We are living in a world where governments are trying their hardest to snoop in on your activity.
Privacy is FAR more important and useful than AI/ML ever will be.
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Report Reveals Internal Chaos Behind Apple's Siri Failure
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We are living in a world where governments are trying their hardest to snoop in on your activity.
Privacy is FAR more important and useful than AI/ML ever will be.
This is a really good point. The iPhone release in '07 is the golden example for me.
There had to be some degree of leadership and collaboration to make non-AI Siri as stupid as it is now.
Absolutely agreed. Of course, with bad leadership and marketing along - it’s beyond ridiculous announcing features before they’re ready (or existing).
Not only that, but we’re talking about features which everybody knows are hard to build and can’t be done overnight.
Generally, I’m not sure why people are surprised by what happened. Many of the AI features introduced throughout other apps are mostly gimmicky and not really helpful. I never believed what was showcased during WWDC will materialise in a year.
Any chaos about the yet unfixed Bluetooth on 15 Pro since launch?
Steve Jobs would have terminated them all a long time ago. He simply did not tolerate incompetence. Multiple teams that missed deadlines were fired for this.
Tim Cook should give the Siri team a deadline and fire them if they don't meet it. This is how you motivate people.
Tim Cook should give the Siri team a deadline and fire them if they don't meet it. This is how you motivate people.
I love that they're saying here that the only thing that worked when they announced this was the pulsing color animation.
Maybe we don't need an updated version of everything apple every 12 months.
Sounds like a junk show > "overly relaxed culture", "problems with execution, citing an overly relaxed culture, as well as a lack of ambition".
Their demos for WWDC were BOGUS?
Maybe a faster iPhone with better cameras will fix everything.... Can't wait for September!
Their demos for WWDC were BOGUS?
Maybe a faster iPhone with better cameras will fix everything.... Can't wait for September!
On top of that. Siri isn't as good as Android's voice assistant was....even 5 years ago.
Can't agree to this, really. LLMs nowadays, especially with the right tools (which are pretty much slot-loadable with the right code) is effectively what Siri should have been in 2021. Take an open source model, code the tools, and get it out there. I have a Siri-like running on a Mac and, though unpolished and ran in a terminal, it is embarassingly better than actually doing anything with Siri.
Because exhausted people produce such quality work.
No because there is no replacement that is better than an iPhone. BlackBerry and Nokia lost the smartphone race because the iPhone had better hardware/software.
If the Humane AI Pin was a hit product, or OpenAI’s hardware was a big success then I might be open to that idea, but software has to run on hardware and there is no device currently that has exclusive “killer” AI features.
Does this imply that we will incorporate some DeepSeek’s open-source code in future features? Asking for a friend.
Notification Summary was literally the worst feature Apple has put out since I don't know when. You need to open them up to decipher what it was trying to say anyway. Deactivated it after a day of trying it. Everything else isn't really "in your face" either and I just forget it even exists.
Agree. I run local models for different things, like image upscaling, and they run well. It should be plug and play on Apple's backend.
There’s probably internal demos that work but don’t meet Apple’s design requirements. Maybe there’s some “not invented here” issues.
As a software engineer myself, I have to kind of disagree. I don’t think software quality is now worse than what it was 2-3 years ago, for instance. Unfortunately, there are regressions which come up again and again, meaning the QA is quite bad. Furthermore, not really much new or useful is being added. But I don’t think the quality has been going down. Also, keep in mind that software becomes more and more complex, also more and more devices to support, alongside more products and services which are all related - it all adds to the development complexity and also increases the risk of failure and that’s something that can’t be avoided, unless you don’t do anything new at all.
I believe this is mostly due to the hardware design. Yeah, some of it was remediated with software update, but I think the structure of the phone itself is to blame, mostly. But similar issues are present with almost every iPhone launch and are shortly addressed afterwards.
This is the reason why so many have a distrust from Apple....
They made fictious demo.....even the Siri team did not know about....
False advertising in the least......
They made fictious demo.....even the Siri team did not know about....
False advertising in the least......
I think it's safe to say the Siri will always be behind the competition and iPhone/Mac users should not expect a breakthrough or any innovation in this area. If it's taking them this long just to have a functioning version of their vision for the iPhone, imagine just how long it'll take for this to be implemented in their entire ecosystem -- Apple Watch, Apple TV and HomePod users can forget about it.
Like other said, Apple's focus on privacy is another roadblock for creating a great GenAI Siri.
Imagine being part of this team when they saw fake demos of features they never even worked on. Talk about terrifying as an employee.
I have zero interest in using an LLM that learns on stolen copyrighted material and private info, but clearly there is a huge market for it. And if Apple is going to make one part of their OSes (make it opt-in, please!) then they need to set that as a goal for their employees, and not have what appears to be a dumpster fire of disinterest and changing priorities.
I once worked for a international company that put an engineer at the CEO post. Things went downhill from there for the employees and the company. Many mis-steps, lost money, etc. We still made more money then God but a lot of bad decisions were made. Wrong man for the job, he was great at engineering and working at that level...but we never had any confidence with him as a CEO.
The same with Mr. Cook, great at what he did, but it is time for him to gracefully bow out and for the BOD to select someone who does not look like a Silicone Valley Ken Doll, but select someone that has an artistic eye and creative spirit backed by an MBA.
The same with Mr. Cook, great at what he did, but it is time for him to gracefully bow out and for the BOD to select someone who does not look like a Silicone Valley Ken Doll, but select someone that has an artistic eye and creative spirit backed by an MBA.