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Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#101

Post by reaperducer »

bubblegumcrisis wrote: post #66
Kuyawa wrote: post #51

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd…

What about: just not Siri at all. What about that. What about MrSunshine. I would rather have my own bot that I code. But no, vendor lock in.

I want one named Bobby so I can shout

"Dammit, Bobby! Turn off the dang lights!"

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#102

Post by jnsie »

cobolcomesback wrote: post #70
Kuyawa wrote: post #51

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd…

Amazon did exactly this with Alexa skills and it hasn’t exactly been a booming success. Turns out that all of the things you listed as examples are stuff that most consumers don’t actually want or will use. “AI as a chat bot” has always been cool and fun in sci-fi movies, but it’s the least imaginative real world use for it. We need to move past it. > $ Siri 'List the files in this folder' Why in the world would I ev…

Alexa's big issue for me was that you had to remember very specific commands and unless you remembered the exact syntax you were out of luck. I genuinely think if the AI had been better and had been able to interpret commands better, skills would have been infinitely more useful.

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#103

Post by dbbk »

Dennip wrote: post #61
Kuyawa wrote: post #51

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd…

I'd settle for a siri that can at least turn the lights off properly. Google assistant on the nvidia shield left Siri in the dust years ago. Siri can't even chain basic commands in your smart home, it can't retain any kind of context (e.g. dim the lights...a bit more).

The year is 2026 and "Siri mark my medication as taken" returns "I'm sorry I can't do that"

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#104

Post by OptionOfT »

kmfrk wrote: post #65

Third-party calls won't eat into Apple's compute, so it's not entirely against the interests of Apple as they put caps on people's AI use. I wonder what the margin on this stuff is for them: Some Apple Intelligence features in the Home app, such as video summaries, are available for a limited number of cameras depending on your iCloud+ plan — up to 1 camera in the 2 TB plan, up to 2 cameras in the 6 TB plan, and up t…

Quite annoying that you need to get the top plan for 5 cameras, and you cannot get more.

I like tinkering with this stuff, everything around me is a perpetual lab, so I have more than 5 cameras that I'd like to hook up to this. But I REALLY don't NEED or WANT 12TB or storage.

I want all of these integrations to be possible locally, without having to send my data to the cloud.

But I cannot. A lot of these nice integrations aren't offered for fully-local setups.

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#105

Post by prepend »

Dennip wrote: post #61
Kuyawa wrote: post #51

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd…

I'd settle for a siri that can at least turn the lights off properly. Google assistant on the nvidia shield left Siri in the dust years ago. Siri can't even chain basic commands in your smart home, it can't retain any kind of context (e.g. dim the lights...a bit more).

I gave up on using Siri for my lights because 1/3 of the time it would get caught in a “who is speaking? Please go through the voice configuration to identify yourself.”

This was frustrating for me as it always prompted “who cares? Just turn off the lights.” As well as would drive my parents and other guests batty.

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#106

Post by runjake »

Kuyawa wrote: post #51

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd…

> Can we start with Siri for the terminal?

It already exists in macOS 27: fm(1)

It is an extremely powerful tool, but here are the basics:

  # Ask the default on-device model
  fm respond 'Explain this shell error in plain English: permission denied'

  # Start a conversation
  fm chat --instructions 'Let's talk about economics.'

  # Use the larger Private Cloud Compute model
  fm respond --model pcc 'Are zebras and horses related?'

  # Pipe stuff to a model
  echo 'What is Swift?' | fm respond

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#107

Post by xattt »

Dennip wrote: post #61
Kuyawa wrote: post #51

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd…

I'd settle for a siri that can at least turn the lights off properly. Google assistant on the nvidia shield left Siri in the dust years ago. Siri can't even chain basic commands in your smart home, it can't retain any kind of context (e.g. dim the lights...a bit more).

Can we continue it to be somehow room-aware?

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#108

Post by d675 »

cobolcomesback wrote: post #70
Kuyawa wrote: post #51

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd…

Amazon did exactly this with Alexa skills and it hasn’t exactly been a booming success. Turns out that all of the things you listed as examples are stuff that most consumers don’t actually want or will use. “AI as a chat bot” has always been cool and fun in sci-fi movies, but it’s the least imaginative real world use for it. We need to move past it. > $ Siri 'List the files in this folder' Why in the world would I ev…

distribution. MacBooks are everywhere and already used by devs

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#109

Post by mulderc »

Dennip wrote: post #61
Kuyawa wrote: post #51

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd…

I'd settle for a siri that can at least turn the lights off properly. Google assistant on the nvidia shield left Siri in the dust years ago. Siri can't even chain basic commands in your smart home, it can't retain any kind of context (e.g. dim the lights...a bit more).

I have used Siri for years and turning on and off lights has never been an issue.

Re: Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

#110

Post by [deleted] »

reaperducer wrote: post #101
bubblegumcrisis wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about: just not Siri at all. What about that. What about MrSunshine. I would rather have my own bot that I code. But no, vendor lock in.

I want one named Bobby so I can shout "Dammit, Bobby! Turn off the dang lights!"

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