Siri Can Now Tell You What Oprah's Reading

[NightFox]

This illustrates perfectly what’s wrong with Siri. Everything needs to be hardcoded.

The only way out of this mess is for Apple to develop a new smarter virtual assistant.

They can keep Siri around as the privacy friendly stupid version. And have a new version that integrates more with user data and does actual useful profiling and machine learning. I’m sure most people would switch in a heart beat.

Agree, this seems to be the thing people miss when they compare Siri with Alexa and Google - it's the privacy features of Siri that hamstring it. Just give Siri an option where I can choose to stick with the existing dumbed-down version or consent to Apple processing and aggregating my data to provide a half-decent AI assistant.

 

[qoop]

Hi Oprah, I'm reading my new council tax bill for 2021/2. It's great. £2,200 this year.

 

[and 1989 others]

Elon Musk: Lets build a bigger rocket to make a settlement on mars.
Jeff Bezos: Lets now make Amazon a FreightAirline to take over another Industry.
Bill Gates: Lets fund massive vaccine campaigns and rid the world of Misery
Tim Cook: Let's see what Oprah is reading.

 

[fishmongerer]

I turned off Siri last night. It's absolute trash. Will manually have to click on Google Assistant now.

 

[GMacR]

What's the obsession Apple has with Oprah? They can't seem to get enough of her.

Money, and lemming followers.

 

[GMacR]

“We’re reading…”
Wow, she’s started using the royal “we”. I can’t imagine why.

Oprah could be using special pronouns now...

 

[blacktape242]

as the great peter griffen once said "omg, who the h*** cares?!"

 

[pdmpolishing]

What's the obsession Apple has with Oprah? They can't seem to get enough of her.

As a company the sells it products internationally I wish they would realise that most people outside of the US don't really care about or even know who Oprah is. I would like to see Apple concentrating it's products and not trying to force the likes of Oprah onto our Apple echo system, yes have the media in the podcasts and on AT+ but don't force it on people.

 

[hagar]

As a company the sells it products internationally I wish they would realise that most people outside of the US don't really care about or even know who Oprah is. I would like to see Apple concentrating it's products and not trying to force the likes of Oprah onto our Apple echo system, yes have the media in the podcasts and on AT+ but don't force it on people.

They don’t force anything. It’s not like you have to listen to Oprah talk every time you Open your iPhone.

 

[ericwn]

As a company the sells it products internationally I wish they would realise that most people outside of the US don't really care about or even know who Oprah is. I would like to see Apple concentrating it's products and not trying to force the likes of Oprah onto our Apple echo system, yes have the media in the podcasts and on AT+ but don't force it on people.

So how exactly is Oprah enforced onto you now?

 

[DanTSX]

Good job Apple. Very brave