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Re: Siri AI

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Post by matwood »

ipaddr wrote: post #251
burnerthrow008 wrote: post #186

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> This feels like it could be solved with a list of permissions that the user has to turn on when using 3rd party AI. Nah, that just shifts the goal posts. If they did that, developers would be whining about "scare screens", as we have already seen when Apple put app installs behind a permission prompt. They're already up in arms about the requirement from Apple (and Google) to know who is behind the apps that slurp…

You can downloads millions of things for your computer without kyc protocols. Why are phones in a special class? Your data is being slurped by the people who sold you the phone and you are worried about the small fish.

> Why are phones in a special class?

Because we applied the learnings from computers and phones have ended up way more personal?

Re: Siri AI

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Post by dyauspitr »

Geee wrote: post #477

No, I don't want Apple to read all my emails, text messages and photos. I'm probably not going to buy Apple devices any more if it really works like this, by default sending all your data into their cloud. If I want to use AI, I want to be able to select the exact messages / photos which I want to send to it. Otherwise I expect the device to keep the data protected. I don't need any of these features either; I can re…

Apple is not reading anything.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by orrito »

pookieinc wrote: post #490
skylurk wrote: post #476

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For fun I planned a holiday entirely with LLM's lately, and followed through. It used good models and did a lot of searching, including searches in other languages. It got nothing right, riddled with fake places and times. It also found some weird and unique places I never would have considered. I had a blast, brought me back to traveling pre-internet, requiring a level of spontaneity I had forgotten we used to depen…

To counter, we did the same with a trip to Copenhagen for 7 days and it got most paths correct. Train routes, places to visit with kids, restaurants, reservations, weather, most of it was great. There were a couple mistakes of course here and there, thankfully we did our due diligence, but by and large, we plan to do this for future trips.

I feel like one city is enough focus to actually get good results. If you plan a trip where you move between different (smaller) places problems start to arise

Re: Siri AI

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Post by Scoundreller »

conradfr wrote: post #487
rafaelmn wrote: post #384

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>Siri turn off the main light in children's bedroom 100% of the time turns of all the lights in children's bedroom. Alexa has no problem with this. Disappointing to say the least. Completely useless, I was going to get an Android this year on upgrade cycle. Will check this out first.

I press a switch on the wall.

I can’t afford these vintage accoutrements for my shoebox

Re: Siri AI

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Post by SebastianKra »

s3p wrote: post #283
Ecstatify wrote: post #155

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It’s the same broken promise every year. All I want is for Siri to set an alarm and open my blinds. That’s enough for me. Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into Siri over the years.

Jokes aside, I have been using siri to control my smart home and set my alarm for nearly ten years now. I haven't really had problems with basic stuff like this.

"Siri, lights out everywhere" - "okay, which room".

"Siri, start a stopwatch" - runs the App "Stopwatch" without starting it

Such errors happen maybe 50% of the time. You can never just ask something without double-checking afterwards.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by dansquizsoft »

zmmmmm wrote: post #438

It's interesting how anemic the use cases seem to be - we see the same things recycled over and over: "reword my email", "remove object from picture", "add a reminder", "summarise my text message which was already only 20 words long" etc etc. As if these are the major problems in people's lives. I really feel like there's a fascinating valley of death between simple things that actually work and things of real value…

"I got the top tier of Gemini AI." - that's your issue, get a subscription to a lab offering actual frontier models like Anthropic and OpenAI.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by kqp »

umpalumpaaa wrote: post #376
kqp wrote: post #101

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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.

Huh, yeah, I’m not seeing it there either. The macOS app is what I checked previously. iOS-only users might be able to see it at 1password.com. Weird inconsistency.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by [deleted] »

cush wrote: post #342
jesse_dot_id wrote: post #152

I didn't really see anything that knocked my socks off. Mostly, it's the promise that Siri now works in the way in which they said it would work a few years ago, when it didn't. I do like the addition of Siri in the context menu, though. I can see that being useful.

I’m excited at the idea of Siri having its own app, if nothing but for it to not disappear while I’m reading a response.

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Re: Siri AI

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Post by port11 »

Hopefully it’s an app that can be uninstalled on macOS, where I use almost none of Apple’s own apps, yet are prevented from removing them (unlike on iOS).

Re: Siri AI

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Post by skylurk »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #486
skylurk wrote: post #476

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For fun I planned a holiday entirely with LLM's lately, and followed through. It used good models and did a lot of searching, including searches in other languages. It got nothing right, riddled with fake places and times. It also found some weird and unique places I never would have considered. I had a blast, brought me back to traveling pre-internet, requiring a level of spontaneity I had forgotten we used to depen…

What was a “good model” and harness? I would expect decent results using say Codex with 5.5 xhigh to research and verify an itinerary. 5.5 Pro with search would also be promising.

I suspect it would perform admirably well with 'Paris' or 'Copenhagen' (see sibling comment), but if you want to have some real fun try 'Southern Spain' or 'Rural Malaysia'.
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