Can we please just throw Siri out of the car instead of the backseat?
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Siri Rumored to Take a Backseat at WWDC 2025
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I see nothing particularly bad in this, but thats just me, I don’t speak to my phone or AI assistants. I prefer real human😃
Maybe Apple should think about giving backseat to their marketing and PR team. Announcing unfinished (not even beta at this point) product backfired significantly.
As for their AI or, better to say “machine learning” endeavors, I think they have been doing a lot and finishing nothing in recent years. For example, computational photography. For many years we had been offered only a portrait mode, a software-based bokeh. How about real hardware improvements and newer lens designs that allow real, shallow background blur?
Same thing with computational bugs and overprocessing. Maybe thats what people want, I don’t know. I would instead want even more natural photo output. Leave algorithms for something other
Maybe Apple should think about giving backseat to their marketing and PR team. Announcing unfinished (not even beta at this point) product backfired significantly.
As for their AI or, better to say “machine learning” endeavors, I think they have been doing a lot and finishing nothing in recent years. For example, computational photography. For many years we had been offered only a portrait mode, a software-based bokeh. How about real hardware improvements and newer lens designs that allow real, shallow background blur?
Same thing with computational bugs and overprocessing. Maybe thats what people want, I don’t know. I would instead want even more natural photo output. Leave algorithms for something other
Last valuation of Anthropic was a little over $60 billion... Purchase would probably be at least $100 billion. Feasible for Apple but wow, that would be an all-time blockbuster.
Well at least they aren't forcing a hard switch just yet like Google with Gemini. I miss google assistant on my Pixel, Gemini may be a touch better than Apple AI, but still pales to Assistant for simple tasks that seem to confuse the heck out of the unpolished Gem.
That's a given. The Siri features they're working on are still on track for iOS 19 but not until a later update. Possibly before the end of this year, but maybe early next year. Either way, they already caused themselves a lot of headache by announcing it too early, they aren't going to announce it at all now. When its ready it will ship.
Also I think Apple would have to accept either completely changing their design philosophy for AI or risking to break Anthropic’s competitive advantages by amending Anthropic’s technology to fit Apple’s requirements.
Specifically, Apple wants privacy-focused AI which is increasingly moving away from the cloud and running as much as possible on-device. I really like this idea but it is clearly one of the reasons which has made things harder and slower for Apple, while the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic weren’t too concerned about those things and were able to deliver much faster.
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Wish Tim Cook would also take a back seat.
Yes, and due to issues between Apple and the BBC it's not even possible to ask Siri to play their radio stations unless you invoke a fairly complex Shortcut option. Additionally, Siri can't play specific recordings of music - if you ask for Beethoven's Fourth Symphony conducted by Toscanini you'll be out of luck. This would seem to be relatively straightforward to sort as Apple Music must presumably use a database that could be referenced. It goes to show that having all the money in the world still leaves even basic things undone.
EDIT: Just to be sure I have just requested Beethoven 4 as detailed above and my Homepod Minis played Debussy's L-aprés Midi d'une Faune played by the New York Philharmonic. Totally useless.
To date, there is no way to fully prevent LLM's from providing bad information. These systems, while cool and super useful, are weird and not ready for prime time. As of right now, I can't imagine them as critical systems. I mean, you have to keep reminding them what their purpose is, and watch out for them lying and deceiving, and hallucinating lol. These are such strange systems that I highly doubt these are the future of Ai, more like the stepping stone that gets us there.
"GOOD MOARRRRRNAAAANG. Today we are announcing Siri will still suck!"
"Have a great day!" 🙏
"Have a great day!" 🙏
If that's the case, they might have some interesting features planned. Either way I'm looking forward to it.
Siri is so comically bad that Apple should consider discontinuing it. Start over or buy something. It shouldn't be hard to find someone doing something better than Siri.
“Apple is also reportedly planning to "separate the Apple Intelligence brand from Siri in its marketing," owing to concerns that users' negative experience with Siri is harming opinions about Apple Intelligence as a whole.”
If Siri is that toxic, when does Apple just dump it and replace it with something else? Every limitation of Siri is blamed on its archaic framework, maybe it’s time to destroy the framework?
If Siri is that toxic, when does Apple just dump it and replace it with something else? Every limitation of Siri is blamed on its archaic framework, maybe it’s time to destroy the framework?
Good. They need to underpromise and underdeliver. The made a very stupid mistake with WWDC24
Apple intelligence is already a tarnished brand due to its poor feature set and class action lawsuit against Apple due to the delay of promised features.
Siri has been the joke to a punchline for at least 10 years now.
Do Apple marketing think that we are stupid and can pummel us into believing that these brands / features are in fact great?
Or are they completely out of touch as to how people actually perceive these two?
Siri has been the joke to a punchline for at least 10 years now.
Do Apple marketing think that we are stupid and can pummel us into believing that these brands / features are in fact great?
Or are they completely out of touch as to how people actually perceive these two?
"Not ready for prime time"??? Seriously, tens of millions of people are using them and love them. I can't think of a better time, even though they make mistakes.
Tim: Hey Siri: lay low until all the class action lawsuit talk hopefully blows over.
Siri: I’m sorry, I can’t do that, Tim.
Siri: I’m sorry, I can’t do that, Tim.
How do we know Deepseek wasn’t developed by the Chinese government and packaged for debut inside a hedge fund?
We don’t.