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Re: Siri AI

#71

None for the EU Is it available in China at least or is this another “50% of the userbase gets nothing new in the OS update” year? Edit: https://x.com/wongmjane/status/2064052590992916840?s=46 Lol

Change your region. I've done so and haven't particulary noticed anything off, all the EU specific apps are weirdly still available in US appstore.

Re: Siri AI

#73

None for the EU Is it available in China at least or is this another “50% of the userbase gets nothing new in the OS update” year? Edit: https://x.com/wongmjane/status/2064052590992916840?s=46 Lol

One of the presenters said they're working with regulators in China and the EU to make it available eventually.

Nice, waiting to see what they’ll market as “the feature” for when they run ads outside of the US

Re: Siri AI

#74
post #13

>Fix passwords with a tap. >The Passwords app alerts you to weak or compromised passwords and can update them on your behalf without the hassle. Finally, I hope this works well. Personally one of the worst things to deal with.

I'll believe this when pigs fly.

There's a 0% chance it will work. Most websites I've seen have one or all of:

* Force you to use email or SMS as a "second factor" to unlock changing password even if you know the old password

* A stupid idea of password complexity usually requiring one of a finite set of 5-8 "special characters" which is often only revealed after you've chosen a password that doesn't have them. Or in some cases even banning characters other than the ones they check for. There's a standard for this where you put a regex on the password field, which a good password manager will always use, but the kind of idiots who think limiting the entropy of passwords to increase security is the correct way to do things almost NEVER implement this.

* A maximum password length, even as short as 16 characters in many cases

* CAPTCHA etc.

Any effort spent on this would be better spent elsewhere, including even educating other companies on how passkeys should be used.

Re: Siri AI

#75

I wonder how much of Siri AI is Apple-developed and how much of it is Google-developed as a result of Gemini. The a) search demos and b) image generation demos seem unlikely to have been done by Apple alone, the demos being closer to Google Search and Nano Banana respectively.

I was wondering the same. I have to imagine it's mostly Gemini, unless Apple has a big, secret, SotA foundation model no one has heard of? But if it is Gemini, how does that work with their Private Cloud thing? Are they able to load the Gemini weights into it?

IIRC Apple cut a deal to have their own version of Gemini that is hosted just for them.

Re: Siri AI

#76
Apple Shortcuts have felt like a blatantly obvious AI play to me for a while now.

The interface for creating them manually has been so bad for so long, it feels clear to me that LLM-driven shortcut orchestration was always the endgame. Apple built up their ecosystem of composable "tools", and then trained an LLM on how to call them.

The result, IMO, is the first OpenClaw/Hermes competitor that's feasible for use by the general public.

Everyone with a paid Claude or ChatGPT that they're struggling to use to the fullest is going to have very little reason not to swap over to an upgraded iCloud+ plan (if they don't already have one). I suspect we're going to see mass cancellation of $20/mo plans very soon.

OpenAI's timing for removing their temporary increased usage limits is looking pretty unfortunate...

Re: Siri AI

#77
I don't care much about Siri, and not a lot about Apple (other than as an investment), but Apple is generally really good about putting out polished tech, and so I'm curious if Siri AI will be up to their usual standards, because if so, it represents a significant usage of AI that has solved hallucination issues.

But that's a big If!

Re: Siri AI

#78
post #64

The chatbots(ChatGPT, Claude et al) showed Apple exactly what can be done, the user base is already well primed. So this is a product definition done for them to execute. If done well they will be able to provide a much stronger integration into the day to day use cases than the chatbots, and can siphon off user time from them. This time around the end to end is easier with Apple Intelligence and more importantly llm…

If they are using some mid model and are stingy with web search, I won’t use it more than a couple times.

Re: Siri AI

#79
The screenshot about pho is funny to me. Bean sprouts are not a good source of fiber. Noodles are not especially healthy. The broth base is not fish sauce, nor is fish sauce where broth gets most of its sodium. Slop city!

Re: Siri AI

#80
I go on long walks and talk to ChatGPT in depth in its conversation mode about programming and computing in depth.

That’s what I expected from Siri but you can get in from ChatGPT .

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