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Re: Siri AI

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I think it’s time you hand in your licence.

For getting off the road to park somewhere and replan a route? Are you a bot?

For apparently being unable to listen to or participate in a conversation while operating a motor vehicle.

Re: Siri AI

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For getting off the road to park somewhere and replan a route? Are you a bot?

For apparently being unable to listen to or participate in a conversation while operating a motor vehicle.

Which is distracted driving.

Re: Siri AI

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If you are logged in, you can tell it that's your preference and it will remember.

I've tried, but I'll try again. I'm not clear what "logged in" means, I guess? It's using my android auto from my phone. Everything is authed against my google account, including my Gemini, presumably. Is there a secret Gemini/AA I'm missing?

That's interesting, maybe there's some limitation there. I haven't used android auto so I don't know whether it has access to an instruction file like the desktop application!

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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.

You are correct And there was a lawsuit and those users will be compensated. This new update for 17pro is no longer misleading “Apple has agreed to pay some iPhone buyers a collective $250m (£184m) to end a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading people about new artificial intelligence (AI) features and capabilities.”

This only applies to the US, or does it?

Re: Siri AI

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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 mos…

At a high level, the processes are extremely similar in many (not all) ways. They're obviously achieved in drastically different ways at a low enough level; LLMs obviously do not simulate neurons or any biological construct. (For the record, I'm absolutely not one of those people who thinks LLMs are "alive" or should be treated like they are) Reminds me of the olllllld days of Pentium II's when people got N64 emulati…

It generates text from a prompt and weights. This is not an oversimplification, this is what it does. It doesn’t know what is good and what is not or a quality holiday for person x is.

Humans do not in fact do that, they reason based on a mix of past experience and emotion, consider what is good and what is not and then answer. These are completely different processes.

The difference becomes apparent when an LlM makes a mistake for example and then apologises obsequiously and repeats the mistake, or apologises and makes a different mistake. Or when they fail to count letters (one of many flaws monkey-patched by calling tools).

They don’t reason they don’t evaluate and they can’t count. This is so so far from human intelligence.

Re: Siri AI

#746

To this day, Siri does not understand "Subtract 5 minutes off my timer" when having an active timer

I tried this on the iOS 27 beta with Siri AI and it worked, to an approximation. It'll take 5 minutes from the original timer just fine, but not from the remaining time no matter which way I phrase it. Still, a massive improvement in my eyes.
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