lol when listening to this video on my ipad, Siri on my homepod started to recommend me italian restaurants nearby
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Siri Still Struggles to Answer Very Basic Questions
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They will ignore it completely and pretend the problem doesn’t exist as they announce some magical new features.
But Alexa does play random songs. My neighbor complained of music coming from my apartment when I wasn’t there and it turned out to be Alexa!
Apple not having working AI that is a problem because
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So many reason that I just can't think of any.
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So many reason that I just can't think of any.
Maybe if Tim Cook hadn't acted like such a dimwit by firing Scott Forstall one year after Siri launched, Siri would be far better now, and perhaps even indusry-leading. Forstall typically made painstaking efforts to improve the quality of software. He even kept a jeweler's loupe at his desk in order to closely inspect pixels. He wasn't perfect, as the problematic release of Apple Maps showed, but had he not been fired soon after, it's very likely Apple Maps would've surpassed Google Maps within a relatively short time.
Scott Forstall prioritized user experience above all else. Dim Cook prioritizes maximizing profits for shareholders above all else. And that's the reason why, as the very first sentence of the OP says, "Siri launched on the iPhone 4S all the way back in 2011, and yet it still struggles to answer some of the most basic questions."
Scott Forstall prioritized user experience above all else. Dim Cook prioritizes maximizing profits for shareholders above all else. And that's the reason why, as the very first sentence of the OP says, "Siri launched on the iPhone 4S all the way back in 2011, and yet it still struggles to answer some of the most basic questions."
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What? You are completely wrong. Didn’t you watch the keynote? They promised a Siri on par with ChatGPT and other assistances
14 years and it’s the same. My god, I don’t know what the Siri people are doing. It’s fualed leadership. Reminds me of Phill Spencer from Xbox and how he has let the Halo franchise to the ground.
I can’t stand it when you ask it a very simple question in the car and it point blank refuses to tell you the answer because you’re driving. Damnit Siri it took you longer to tell me that you won’t give me the answer than it would have to just answer my question
Apparently asking “are there any Apple stores in Greece?” is a completely different question. 🤷🏼
They don’t even do live events now, that’s how lazy they are
Just put Siri to sleep and built a brand new AI assistant. Apple needs this, their very survival may depend on it
Yes. But then again, apple can’t do personal assistants because of privacy. That’s why they won’t ever catch up. That and the lack of a software leader, Federeigh is not it at all, he hasn’t done anything remarkable. What has he done? Copying things from the competition?
I’m skeptical of AI ever truly aging a foothold if the bar for “success” is correctly answering vague questions like this. If you asked me “what month is it?” With no other context - my natural response would be, “What month is what?”
If anything Siri is too polite, internalizing the problem as “I don’t understand” rather than saying “your question is too vague or lacks context.”
If anything Siri is too polite, internalizing the problem as “I don’t understand” rather than saying “your question is too vague or lacks context.”
This is news? We all know that Apple never tried to make Siri like a Alexa or a Google Assistant. We’ve all fried Apple over their minimal desire to expand Siri. And now that Apple does want to make Siri smarter and has announced that it is delayed in doing that, do we really need to re-iterate for the ump-teenth time this early in the year that Apple is late to the game?
The engagement economy is quite repetitive. Can someone please post a cat meme? That will be just as novel and informative.
The engagement economy is quite repetitive. Can someone please post a cat meme? That will be just as novel and informative.
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Siri works to open Google Assistant - then I use that when I need to get information hands free, like while in the car. Otherwise its so frustrating the only time I use Siri is in the car and its utterly useless.
The other day I tried to text my wife via Siri and it just kept asking me what email address to use! I don't want to email I said to text!! Even if it was talking iMessage accounts, it should know which one is registered with iMessage!
The other day I tried to text my wife via Siri and it just kept asking me what email address to use! I don't want to email I said to text!! Even if it was talking iMessage accounts, it should know which one is registered with iMessage!
It is indeed sad & funny how she often picks the wrong person. In recent weeks she randomly comes on, on my watch ...
And just yesterday, I asked Alexa what my notifications were ( we have a few echo dots around and there was a delivery notification ) and Siiri on my watch started rattling off my phone notifications, and even when I said "no" when she asked if she should continue, she kept going on, repeatedly.
That was a first.
And just yesterday, I asked Alexa what my notifications were ( we have a few echo dots around and there was a delivery notification ) and Siiri on my watch started rattling off my phone notifications, and even when I said "no" when she asked if she should continue, she kept going on, repeatedly.
That was a first.
Unfortunately, given my age and health, I rely heavily on voice assistance, and I have to admit that AI modules have been a huge help. I’ve been running nine original HomePods alongside three Google Home hubs for about seven years now. Google Assistant is my go-to for obvious reasons. 🤷♂️
Well, Siri is only one of the areas... Is there no-one with a brain working on things like autocorrect?
Two simple examples, bugging me for years already: When I reply to a mail from sender Aleksander Debzinski (just made this up, but it happens with any unusual name) in Mail on iPhone, it suggests "Dear" but then some common but totally unrelated name, not the name of the original sender. When I then punch in "Aleksander" in my reply message to Aleksander, it wants to autocorrect to Alexander. Why?!
And when I am in Vienna (with location services on) and I write "Greetings from" in my message, iOS offers Hamburg or Berlin as the next words... Awful Intelligence!
Wish they had the same high standard as the chip design team! There is simply no elegance in Apple's software anymore.
Two simple examples, bugging me for years already: When I reply to a mail from sender Aleksander Debzinski (just made this up, but it happens with any unusual name) in Mail on iPhone, it suggests "Dear" but then some common but totally unrelated name, not the name of the original sender. When I then punch in "Aleksander" in my reply message to Aleksander, it wants to autocorrect to Alexander. Why?!
And when I am in Vienna (with location services on) and I write "Greetings from" in my message, iOS offers Hamburg or Berlin as the next words... Awful Intelligence!
Wish they had the same high standard as the chip design team! There is simply no elegance in Apple's software anymore.