Siri AI impressions!

[JonoNZ]

What new Siri AI is actually the old “AI” assistance. Personally I no longer need it anymore. From my usage with few LLM (Claude, ChatGPT), it’s unique characteristics are 1) it has to have its own initiative and 2) it can make its own decision (or reduce options into a few only). I didn’t see these two much in Siri AI demo. Probably, this is Google’s strategy to limit its capabilities - otherwise it will compete with Gemini.

Google aren’t in control here.

 

[martin2345uk]

Could someone see if New Siri can turn on do not disturb for, say, 3 hours?

 

[NickyColman]

Could someone see if New Siri can turn on do not disturb for, say, 3 hours?

It can’t.

I asked it to turn on for 3 minutes. It turned it on but didnt query or challenge the time aspect and it failed to turn back off after the 3 minutes.

 

[Treble]

It’s definitely better than the old Siri but it’s still not there yet i know it’s only beta 1 so plenty of time yet but I still think grok is far far superior imo

 

[Bobajobbob]

The more I use it the more it doesn't work for me. So far my impression started at poor and is falling rapidly.

"Sorry somethings gone wrong, please try again" is the answer to most of our conversations.

When it does answer it is frequently wrong and won't remember any context.

I know this is a beta but I have basically given up on using it already which is what I did with old Siri years ago due to lack of utility and reliability. There needs to be some massive improvements in this beta cycle before it goes live or the vast majority of users will give up almost immediately too.

 

[southerndoc]

Siri is an alpha product -- not beta. It is so bad that I had to turn off the new Siri (disable, then reenable -- will allow you to select the old Siri experience). Asking me to unlock my phone to read text messages while driving, unlock my iPhone to make phone calls, playing "All My Favorite Songs" by Wheezer or favorite songs by Taylor Swift instead of playing songs from my favorite song playlist, asking to confirm before making a phone call. The new Siri has been a huge let down. These issues should have been identified and fixed before going to beta.

I'll try again later in the year. Maybe then Apple has its crap together.

 

[norbinhouston]

Siri is a step backwards. Now when I tell it to play a playlist from my music app, it'll try instead to AI interpret and find a song that sounds like my playlist name. Old Siri knew what to do. Also, asking the age on someone on my contact list was perfect on old Siri, no Siri tries to search the web for a name that sounds like the one on my contact list. Same with a company on my contact. I've saved my preferred pizza shop's number on my contact, now when I ask it to call, it'll search the web for all the local pizza shops around me. lol. Do the programers even try out their product?

 

[southerndoc]

Siri is a step backwards. Now when I tell it to play a playlist from my music app, it'll try instead to AI interpret and find a song that sounds like my playlist name. Old Siri knew what to do. Also, asking the age on someone on my contact list was perfect on old Siri, no Siri tries to search the web for a name that sounds like the one on my contact list. Same with a company on my contact. I've saved my preferred pizza shop's number on my contact, now when I ask it to call, it'll search the web for all the local pizza shops around me. lol. Do the programers even try out their product?

This has been a major problem and the reason I went back to the old Siri. This is why I say this should've been identified in internal testing. I think new Siri has a lot of potential, but it is a very early alpha product that's going to be years of testing before Apple gets it right. It'll eventually get there, but until it gets better, I'm staying away.

 

[PsykX]

The new Siri is satisfying.... when it works.

In CarPlay, when I try to listen to music, I still get these "uh oh... a problem happened, please try again later" which is absolutely infuriating. I cannot, for the love of God, put the music I want in my car (with Siri). It worked ONCE out of 30+ times, with similar prompts.

I know it's a beta, but they had two years to polish this 15 years old Siri bug. They better not ship that to customers in September.

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Other than that, the chabot experience is satisfying.

 

[bladerunner88]

 

[VSMacOne]

Siri is a step backwards. Now when I tell it to play a playlist from my music app, it'll try instead to AI interpret and find a song that sounds like my playlist name. Old Siri knew what to do. Also, asking the age on someone on my contact list was perfect on old Siri, no Siri tries to search the web for a name that sounds like the one on my contact list. Same with a company on my contact. I've saved my preferred pizza shop's number on my contact, now when I ask it to call, it'll search the web for all the local pizza shops around me. lol. Do the programers even try out their product?

The playlist feature works for me. I just had to be specific and say play “MY xx playlist”.

 

[Bobajobbob]

The new Siri is satisfying.... when it works.

In CarPlay, when I try to listen to music, I still get these "uh oh... a problem happened, please try again later" which is absolutely infuriating. I cannot, for the love of God, put the music I want in my car (with Siri). It worked ONCE out of 30+ times, with similar prompts.

I know it's a beta, but they had two years to polish this 15 years old Siri bug. They better not ship that to customers in September.

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Other than that, the chabot experience is satisfying.

With on device AI now there is no excuse for these types of errors. Siri can see what’s in your library on device and should be able to immediately act but like you I find it fails all too often.

 

[The Game 161]

thats odd as for me new siri works great for any music i ask it to play. granted it's beta 1 and some may have issues but for me it does everything i ask it to do. been a few times i've had to try again but thats to be expected for beta 1.

i no longer need to use gemini app which is all i wanted

 

[sfwalter]

How does Siri AI behave when offline and limited to on-device models?

I would love to learn what needs cloud and what doesn’t.

And has anyone tried Settings > Privacy > Apple Intelligence Report yet?

I just tried it and was getting an empty response. Then I realized it defaults to 15 minutes, you can change it 7 days. Once I asked Siri a question again the report was populated. It looks to include Apple's system prompt as well.

I asked it "what meeting do I have tomorrow" and it seems to have gone to private cloud compute for that.

 

[digitalfx]

Seems like a basic request that Siri should be able to handle, but no love!

‘Siri considering my direction of travel where is the nearest x?’

Siri gives me three options behind me.

I ask again and emphasize i dont want to turn around…siri says she cant tell which direction im traveling (on the highway). #fail

And one more thing, siri gives all directions in kilometers not miles despite my settings:
US in both region and measurement system.

 

[sfwalter]

Seems like a basic request that Siri should be able to handle, but no love!

‘Siri considering my direction of travel where is the nearest x?’

Siri gives me three options behind me.

I ask again and emphasize i dont want to turn around…siri says she cant tell which direction im traveling (on the highway). #fail

And one more thing, siri gives all directions in kilometers not miles despite my settings:
US in both region and measurement system.

Can other AI agents handle this? I do get annoyed with Maps or Google Maps where its finds locations behind me and int the opposite direction.