{"id":43219,"date":"2024-05-14T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43219"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:11:10","slug":"revamping-siri-with-ios-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/14\/revamping-siri-with-ios-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Revamping Siri With iOS 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen, and Cade Metz<\/a> (MacRumors<\/a>, Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Apple’s top software executives decided early last year that Siri, the company’s virtual assistant, needed a brain transplant.<\/p>\n

The decision came after the executives Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT. The product’s use of generative artificial intelligence, which can write poetry, create computer code and answer complex questions, made Siri look antiquated, said two people familiar with the company’s work, who didn’t have permission to speak publicly.<\/p>\n

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Apple is expected to show off its A.I. work at its annual developers conference on June 10 when it releases an improved Siri that is more conversational and versatile, according to three people familiar with the company’s work, who didn’t have permission to speak publicly. Siri’s underlying technology will include a new generative A.I. system that will allow it to chat rather than respond to questions one at a time.<\/p>\n

The update to Siri is at the forefront of a broader effort to embrace generative A.I. across Apple’s business. The company is also increasing the memory in this year’s iPhones to support its new Siri capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I don’t think there’s a single sentence of news in the entire thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I think the timeline for recognizing and incorporating generative AI is new.<\/p>\n\n

Dave Mark<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Amazing to me that it took 3 wks of ChatGPT to convince Apple that Siri was “antiquated”.<\/p>

Whole bunch of folks have been screaming this from the rooftops for years. 😐<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

SiriVid<\/a> (2010):<\/p>\n

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Siri is a virtual personal assistant on your phone. You ask Siri in your own voice, and it helps you get things done when you're on the go. This video shows a demo of Siri helping plan a romantic evening, get tickets to a great movie, discover cool things to do on the weekend, and getting back home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Adam Overholtzer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple never delivered on the promise of Siri.<\/p>\n

To be clear: the stuff in this Siri demo, which is from before they were acquired by Apple, never really worked. But Apple chose to abandon this vision and here we are 14 years later, with a Siri that still lacks many of the features shown in the video.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I maintain that the real problem with Siri is that the basics don’t work well. The purported the focus on conversation and generative AI gives the impression that they still don’t get this.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n