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Re: Siri AI

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Post by 1-6 »

wxw wrote: post #109

I strongly believe Apple can win the consumer AI space. They have incredible distribution and hardware. They just haven’t executed at the application layer yet.

Apple has built the strongest ecosystem of AI-capable consumer products in the industry. I suspect they deliberately chose not to compete in the AI data center race. Entering that arena would have cannibalized sales of their own high-margin devices, while further straining their already tight supply chain for memory and M-series processors.

Apple would never willingly pay Nvidia for GPUs anyway.

Why absorb supply chain pricing pressures and volatility when you can pass those costs directly to the consumer?

Re: Siri AI

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Post by jlhawn »

crancher wrote: post #67
speak_plainly wrote: post #35

The demo Mike Rockwell gave at WWDC was interesting. He kinda showed off Siri as like the Star Trek computer for your phone. I hope this is the direction Apple is going to continue in. Having AI as a user interface is way more interesting than chat bots, image editors, or copy editing.

I think the key thing is that Spotlight is now creating a... knowledge graph? of everything on your device for Siri's consideration. That's potentially very useful.

they specifically said "Splotlight Semantic Indexing" which means they generate embeddings of all your "personal context" and store it in a local vector database so they can do on-device RAG.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by perching_aix »

nandomrumber wrote: post #352
perching_aix wrote: post #276

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On the contrary, it reads to me like they've simply been around, and this is the general impression they gathered. Which may still not even be true, but it makes a whole lot more sense context wise, and is pretty darn different to the conveniently malicious motivation you're proposing. And with this, now your own "royal we" is similarly rendered deceptive. > At the very least to the extent that the whole setup limits…

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Re: Siri AI

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Post by umpalumpaaa »

baby_souffle wrote: post #344
cromka wrote: post #323

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For me it's all the above and lack of multiple-item clipboard. It's incredible how much time it saves on a phone...

Did iOS ever get OCR based copy/paste? Pixels have had it for years but I think it's in every android phone now; from the app switcher you can press and hold and the system will OCR the text and allow you to copy it. Because so many things _still_ don't make that easy to do on mobile.

It’s a system wide iOS feature and has been for a few years now

Re: Siri AI

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Post by umpalumpaaa »

kqp wrote: post #101
umpalumpaaa wrote: post #93

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1Password gives you access to previous passwords you had for that reason. Unfortunately not for other fields like email, notes etc… IMHO the perfect password app could just keep all previous versions of any field until the user deletes the history.

1Password does do full previous versions. It might be a newer feature, I’m only seeing passwords, not full versions, prior to 2018.

I am using the latest version of their iOS app and only see my current version except for passwords.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by Schiendelman »

SecretDreams wrote: post #364
asadotzler wrote: post #360

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I do this, and it's got some utility some of the time. It's hardly a must-have, and if it cost me money I wouldn't pay for it.

On the initial prompt, it's okay. But it just keeps trying to talk after. Like, just answer my question and do not follow up unless I ask, please sir.

If you are logged in, you can tell it that's your preference and it will remember.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by Schiendelman »

kennywinker wrote: post #351
joshstrange wrote: post #350

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I believe that is showing the results of a search, as in something like "What Plant was Aga telling me about the other day?". The website doesn't make that clear but they asked questions like that in the keynote (not that specific one).

Lol. That makes it almost make sense. It’s still showing me a summary of a text that uses exactly the same amount of space to convey exactly the same amount of information. Like, that’s just search - i’ve been able to get this info by typing “plant” into the search bar since they added spotlight in iPhoneOS 3.0 back in 2009 It’s also a text from 9:14am the same day. If this is the second slide in your marketing slide…

The reason it's showing you what's in the text is to show you a search result. The text is essentially the proof. When the user asks what plant she was telling you about, they don't have the text in front of them. It could be 200 texts back.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by fwip »

hbn wrote: post #318
vrganj wrote: post #223

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The thing is, Europeans are mostly annoyed with Apple over this, not the EC. It just reads like arrogant foreigners throwing a tantrum over our laws.

I would call those people uninformed. It's completely reasonable for Apple to be hesitant to roll out any new integration features within their own ecosystem in the EU. iPhone mirroring for example. Seems like practically 100% chance that if they put that out in the EU they'd be facing lawsuits for not making it work with every Android and Kindle and digital pregnancy test on the planet. And making it an open API rig…

It's hard to take your argument seriously when you're being hyperbolic.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by sleazebreeze »

sakesun wrote: post #282

Microsoft cannot compete in browser race and has to adopt Chromium. Apple cannot compete in AI and has to adopt Gemini Google is a really amazing company.

Too bad Google can’t compete in consumer or professional AI either
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