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Re: Siri AI

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Post by Geee »

camillomiller wrote: post #483
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…

You might want to so some research. It’s the only company with a level of privacy on this. Most of it is on-device. Private cloud compute does not store anything. I dunno man, you could criticize 360 aspects of this presentation but you pick privacy, really?

It can make on-device tool calls using your data (web search, database search, email, app APIs) which are not private. PCC doesn't protect against being dumb with your data.

E.g. "the user asks if their Bitcoin private key is unique, let's make a web search".

Re: Siri AI

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Post by dakolli »

kristianc wrote: post #465
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…

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.

best comment I've seen on this site in a while

Re: Siri AI

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Post by zeratax »

bandrami wrote: post #461
rafaelmn wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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'm too paranoid to ever want a home snitch device, so I'm not their target audience, but it always struck me that if it took even ten minutes to debug a problem like that it completely destroys a year's worth of time allegedly saved compared to just walking over to the room and hitting the switch.

true, but also there is no debugging, right? it's apple's software either it works or it doesn't. (i guess other than connectivity issues)

idk if most of my home assistant automations have actually saved me time since i def had to debug them, but the level of satisfaction when they do work is def worth it for me, since i created (and debugged) them haha

Re: Siri AI

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Post by panicinducer »

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…

It reminds me of the Apple Vision Pro hype trailer. "Put on a helmet so you can view 2D photographs in 3D space." Present-day Apple sure has a way of making extremely impressive tech seem totally superfluous.

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Post by hollowturtle »

SecretDreams wrote: post #267
hollowturtle wrote: post #215

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> Having AI as a user interface is way more interesting than chat bots, image editors, or copy editing. What do you mean exactly? Audio conversation only? If so I don't see it very practical for most of the things

Use android auto Gemini assistant for 5 mins and tell me how interesting it is.

How many people would use audio interfaces in public places or offices? No one would share with everybody what he wants to do. GUI are there for simplify interactions too, it's just we forgot how to implement them well

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Post by rbits »

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…

Oh damn I didn't realise it sent all this to the cloud. That seems kinda concerning.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by Tepix »

They 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.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by grey-area »

diroussel wrote: post #507
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…

I found that Deep Research mode in Gemini was able to give me a well planned 4 day trip to a major city. I told it my preferences and of the group members, where we arrived and departed, at what times. I gave it my itinerary and then asked it to plan two new itineraries and also suggest a location to book a hotel that was convenient for the early flight on the last day. I went away for 20 mins and gave me a 20 page d…

Or maybe there are just a few complete trips to major city in the training data that it could copy from? I imagine major destinations are much easier.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by wwalexander »

himata4113 wrote: post #71
akmarinov wrote: post #44

None for the EU Is it available in China at least or is this another “50% of the userbase gets nothing new in the OS update” year? Edit: https://x.com/wongmjane/status/2064052590992916840?s=46 Lol

Change your region. I've done so and haven't particulary noticed anything off, all the EU specific apps are weirdly still available in US appstore.

Poste Italiane is not.
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