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You don’t know what’s in your face until you use Copilot.
No worries I would never touch anything Microsoft with a 10-foot pole.
From your comments it sounds like Apple are just peachy as well.
Siri AI
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Re: Siri AI
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Will it change iOS Settings for me that are hard to find by me just describing what I want? Or things like: delete every app I haven’t used in 6 months?
I have found that asking Siri to "ask ChatGPT" was enough 99% of the time for me and solved the discoverability problem that I had with my previous phones. I think that we are now in the realm of diminishing returns regarding these chat assistants.
I’m not against a more natural voice navigation of iOS rather than gating everything behind ChatGPT which feels like a bad hack
Re: Siri AI
#603It'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…
Agree and disagree on the "planning a trip" use case... as I'm sitting on a river cruise on an AI co-planned vacation (we found the cruise, AI set the daily itinerary). Now the big (BIG) caveat is that I used Claude Code on my Max 20x plan from within VS Code. I have a fairly decent harness that I'd built and was sure to prompt it to run several subagents, including one that grounded walking times with Google Maps di…
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Do you rather want your refrigerator, washing machine and coffee maker send all the data it collects about you during your usage to some company you don't even know? How is it ridiculous to want to be able to make your devices do what you want to do, not what the big company behind it wants?
Those machines don’t connect to the internet but I want to run my own software on them.
1. A lot of those more recent machines do actually connect to the internet.
2. Since you want to run your own software on them, but you can't buy open hardware like that, did you build it yourself then as you suggested? "If they don't exist, make them yourself."
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A few years ago, the ability to do anything other than a timed walk on my watch with Siri broke. I used to be able to do things like say, “start a 3 mile walk” or “start a 200 calorie walk” and then the latter stopped working and then the former stopped letting me do non-integer numbers of miles and then nothing at all and now I cannot do anything other than start an unmeasured walk or a timed walk with siri and I’m…
Google did the same bullshit on Android. With Google Assistant (old assistant) I could say "Hey Google, play daft punk" and it would start playing Daft Punk on Spotify. With Gemini (new assistant) it says "sorry I cannot play music, but here are links to services where you can find Daft Punk albums". Fortunately at the moment you can still toggle between them. I guess not for long though.
I can no longer control my lights with Gemini assistant. It'll tell me "I can't do that" or "here's how to turn your lights on" or, in at least one instant, play Ellie Golding's Lights at 2x speed.
So now I just use the Google home app and it works as expected.
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I think theres some real use cases in the household department. I would love an AI that I just tell my nutrition goals (I want to eat X calories, Y protein, Z fiber, hit all vitamins) and it just generates a full meal plan for me each day. Like, I go to the store and it made the complete shopping list for me. And automatically updates the rest of the day if I tell it I skipped a meal or ate a snack.
Eating disorder as a service does indeed sound like a business plan.
Why would having goals on fiber, protein, and vitamin intake be an eating disorder?
Re: Siri AI
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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…
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Re: Siri AI
#608It'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…
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…
The juxtaposition between what perhaps the best single use case I have seen for AI and how bad of an ad for it is killing me. I love it.
"I told my bumbling assistant to plan a trip for me and he got nothing right but I enjoyed it because the chaos introduced a certain spontaneity and whimsy missing from my life"
Re: Siri AI
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No worries I would never touch anything Microsoft with a 10-foot pole.
From your comments it sounds like Apple are just peachy as well.
I’m mad at Apple for dropping the ball with the sloppy mess that is iOS 26. I trust they’ll see the light and fix it. Miles of difference with Microsoft - I’d sooner renounce computers entirely and quit my job than be in a position where I have to use Microsoft stuff regularly.
Re: Siri AI
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I think that's a large part behind the "success" of LLMs... people vastly overestimate their uniqueness.
It’s really one of the most flabbergasting things about discussing LLMs with the naysayers. There are a lot of extremely legitimate concerns, like the environmental impact and so on. But I just laugh when they point out that LLMs are merely clever regurgitators of their previous inputs… as if this isn’t how we as humans operate nearly all of the time. People realllllllllly want to think they’re special snowflakes.
It is not in fact how humans work at all.
Ask a human to plan a trip:
They do research, Pick destinations led by their own experience/likes/dislikes Compare to other guides Plan itineraries so they can get there Check and share
Ask an LLM to plan a trip:
It takes the prompt and continues it based on weights in the training data. If there is no data it picks the most likely thing (maybe made up). If there is it’ll mostly add things from that data. Maybe it’ll make tool calls and pull in data that way too but you can’t actually trust all the details.
These two processes are so different, it’s important to understand how they work, which is nothing like a human.