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Re: Siri AI

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Post by reconnecting »

nozzlegear wrote: post #42
reconnecting wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, seriously, AI = Apple Intelligence? It's not even funny, it's not smart. It's like if they released MS Siri and said it's Mac System Siri.

> I mean, seriously, AI = Apple Intelligence? For pedantry's sake, they were saying "AI = Apple Intelligence" last year as well, so it's not like they just pulled it out of their butts now that popular opinion has turned against AI.

Exactly, I thought one year was enough to prove that everyone reads those letters differently nowadays.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by onesociety2022 »

OberstKrueger wrote: post #14

> Available on iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPad models with M4 and later and at least 12GB of unified memory, and Mac models with M3 and later and at least 12GB of unified memory. It’s really disappointing to see the on-device models being limited to so few devices. And this was after the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro were marketed so heavily with supporting their now failed effort at AI.

Apple has pulled a Tesla here. FSD on HW3 cars is stuck on old software with no upgrade path as of now. Tesla is potentially justifying it by calling it "FSD (Supervised)" so they don't have to do an expensive retrofit to them even though they sold these cars originally with the promise of fully autonomous driving.

All the iPhone 16/Pro owners have been waiting for Apple Intelligence features announced from that WWDC 2 years ago. They didn't get delivered and now won't ever be delivered with on-device intelligence due to the 8GB RAM limitation.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by manmal »

h14h wrote: post #76

Apple Shortcuts have felt like a blatantly obvious AI play to me for a while now. The interface for creating them manually has been so bad for so long, it feels clear to me that LLM-driven shortcut orchestration was always the endgame. Apple built up their ecosystem of composable "tools", and then trained an LLM on how to call them. The result, IMO, is the first OpenClaw/Hermes competitor that's feasible for use by t…

Why do I need shortcuts though, I want that to be transparent.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by hombre_fatal »

trhaynes wrote: post #79

The screenshot about pho is funny to me. Bean sprouts are not a good source of fiber. Noodles are not especially healthy. The broth base is not fish sauce, nor is fish sauce where broth gets most of its sodium. Slop city!

Yeah, "Fiber: good source" when 100g of raw bean sprouts gives you 1.8g fiber (less than a 2" kiwi), and pho comes with much less than 100g of sprouts.

Pho is a pretty bad source of fiber.

It sucks that we're skipping over such good tools like cronometer.com to figure out what we're actually eating and going straight to hallucination, adding more confusion to nutrition.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by seaal »

arijun wrote: post #24

They’re adding vibecoded shortcuts (the high level scripting for Apple devices). Hopefully that means they worked out some of the long-existing bugs and missing features, but I’m not optimistic. Still, could be a useful tool, especially for less tech-literate people.

Just updated to see if I could make a shortcut to toggle `Reduced White Point` accessibility shortcut.

"Try describing something different for the shortcut."

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it still doesn't work.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by arcatech »

crancher wrote: post #67
speak_plainly wrote: post #35

The demo Mike Rockwell gave at WWDC was interesting. He kinda showed off Siri as like the Star Trek computer for your phone. I hope this is the direction Apple is going to continue in. Having AI as a user interface is way more interesting than chat bots, image editors, or copy editing.

I think the key thing is that Spotlight is now creating a... knowledge graph? of everything on your device for Siri's consideration. That's potentially very useful.

I think it’s just storing embeddings now.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by xp84 »

reconnecting wrote: post #34
graypegg wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Watching the keynote at our office on a big screen and everyone collectively sighing when they announced the name felt indicative haha. I think it just feels uncreative? Siri as a brand has some value, but if you want it to feel like a watershed moment where old Siri is "behind us" finally, just give it a new name.

I don't think Apple has the option to rebrand Siri at this stage, assuming people actually call Siri by name. However, turning AI into 'Apple Intelligence' doesn't feel creative either.

> assuming people actually call Siri by name

This doesn't follow for me. They can trivially allow it to still respond to the old wakeword. They should absolutely change the name in the event they can finally make it useful, because "Siri" is (in my mind and many others') a synonym for "hapless idiot." "Thanks, Siri" has been uttered hundreds of time in my house and my car, and 100% of the time it's sarcastic.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by lxgr »

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.

Most of them are, some are annoyingly missing. It’s possible to install apps from two different app store accounts, but it’s 10 times more annoying than on Android. Additionally, there are some EU only features, such as third-party NFC payments.

Apple’s performative DMA outrage is getting more pathetic by the iOS version.

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