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Can't wait for unexpected password updates and naughty mails accidentally sent to my boss...
Siri AI
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Re: Siri AI
#522They promised Apple Intelligence with iPhone 15 Pro and more recent models. Now [relevant parts of] Siri AI is restricted to iPhone 17 / iPhone Air and more recent models. People who believed Apple and bought an iPhone 16 to use with Apple Intelligence are getting the shaft.
There are active lawsuits
Re: Siri AI
#523The only way Siri will meaningfully save my time would be if it could doomscroll for me. All of the things Siri claims to automate here would save me maybe a couple of minutes total over a week, wouldn't make the tiniest dent in my screen time.
Re: Siri AI
#524Microsoft 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.
In both cases, Google built a commodity that doesn't necessarily generate revenue for them. I don't think they're doing very well in this case.
Google's power is in controlling your interface. How you interact with the internet, and now, how you interact with AI, is dictated by them. There is massive power in being the interface between you and information.
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#525Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Meta also realized this and attempted multiple times to build their own hardware but they've given up each time. They started as early as a partnering with HTC in 2011 to make a Facebook phone. I was working in cellphone sales at the time and I can tell you no one wanted that phone back then even when Facebook was massive. An easy to hit facebook button was not a value add anyone was begging to exist. Although with…
I think I want a physical AI device. I want an AI assistant that I can use truly hands free. I keep my phone in my jacket when I'm riding my motorcycle. I want to be able to start, stop, adjust, and check details in route guidance. I want to be able to ask what the weather is like ahead on my route. I want to be able to ask it to start looking for a sensible place for me to stop for fuel and/or food without making me…
Earbuds exist.
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#526Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I hate freedom too.
You already have it. If you’re a fan of the “A loaded gun in every crib!” style of “freedom”, go buy something that isn’t an iPhone.
same argument can be applied to you, if you don't want to use Claude/OpenAI/Deepseek instead of Gemini, then DON'T!
Re: Siri AI
#527It'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…
An alien landing on earth consuming Apple marketing content would be under the impression that humans did nothing but organise hikes to Big Sur with their friends.
As Psychology is the study of the psyche of white male psychology students, big tech is technology for affluent citizens of San Francisco with a career in IT…
Re: Siri AI
#528Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spot on! I am also under the impression that the LLM tech is plateauing before bringing the promised productivity. Great as a coding assistant, great a summarizing a text, translating, great a helping plan a trip... But for the rest, e.g. act as a life assistant, it is still far off with no hope to reach the desired performance level. I would not be surprisd to see OpenAI and the likes to start reverting to Siri v1 s…
Why this is surprising? LLM-s are good in text generation on the base of the stuff they were trained on. Software is text generation, translation is text generation, LLMs can answer questions since billions were spent on tuning foundation models, that is people were collecting in (semi)automatic way questions with answers to the point we might think that LLM-s are "thinking". Now people want to handle car rental. Wha…
Who said it was surprising?
The performance of specific tasks will depend on either those tasks having been included in the training (which Apple could work on), or added by ways of fine tuning, and context sourced from userland.
For any category of tasks, there's a ton to be gained still in terms of how context is populated more effectively (relevance) and efficiently (token use). See software engineering harnesses and the skills architecture of OpenClaw for example. SWE harnesses make all the difference in how well Claude Code and OpenAI Codex perform. OpenClaw can't do shit without loading skills from the filesystem into context JIT.
I'll be very curious to find out how Apple is feeding context in their new AI approach. Part of it appears to be an 'index' that my iPhone started building (visible in main Settings screen) after installing the iOS 27 Developer Beta.
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#529Earlier quoted context omitted.
We may have a different view of what 'giving access' means in this context. The way I see it: If a user willingly (1) installs another AI app like deepseek and (2) willingly gives it access to 'full phone and app data' with a warning screen or setting of whatever that seems... like a good thing? I may not agree with those users that it's worthwhile providing their full private data to [some AI startup X] or [Some Chi…
I don’t have the EU perspective, which might be changed by things like GDPR, but I prefer Apple’s stance that “no one should have this data, not even us”. One reason is that the data on a user’s phone isn’t solely owned by them. Some of it is shared with other people, or “belongs” to someone else: chat, email, shared documents, photos of people, contact information, etc. In a corporate environment, this is more expli…
Maybe you missed the 'or sent to private cloud' part of the announcement, it's not just local-llm only.
Don't get me wrong, just like you I personally would also prefer LLM-integrations with a privacy-focused provider and I think Apple is a good party to get that from (assuming they're using good models and keep their privacy guarantees here...)
But in the end you're still often 'sending data to an LLM provider', and the EU enforcing them to also let that be competing LLM providers still doesn't sound like a bad thing to me.
If Mistral would give the same privacy guarantees: great! If a company wants to use their enterprise OpenAI subscription: great! Etc. etc.
Let's allow for some competition here and not force a specific LLM-provider onto users just because they like the Apple hardware and software ecosystem.
Re: Siri AI
#530It'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…
Even the aspirational use cases you're talking about basically are just "digital secretary." There's a massive problem with that even if the models end up being capable in the future. The value of a secretary is that you know them, they know you, and you trust them to do things right. There are stakes if they don't. No company can provide that as a service at scale for everyone without it being a disaster. Not becaus…
The vast majority of people never even asked for a personal assistant, because that isn’t something normal people have or do need in the first place. They aren’t so occupied/privileged/posh to need someone to do the trivial tasks of daily life for them.
This whole venue of technology is an exercise in ivory tower construction completely disconnected from ordinary people.