Comment by Noaidi
Comment by Noaidi a day ago
Guess I am not using Siri anymore…
By the way, have any of you ever tried to delete and disabled Siri’s iCloud backup? You can’t do it.
Comment by Noaidi a day ago
Guess I am not using Siri anymore…
By the way, have any of you ever tried to delete and disabled Siri’s iCloud backup? You can’t do it.
In the article they clearly mentioned that Gemini model will be used for the Foundation Model running on device or their own Server. They are not sending Siri request to Google servers.
My exact reaction every time I hear people discuss Siri. I don’t think I used it once in my life and it’s one of the first thing I turn off every time I have a new device. So interesting to see how different people use the same devices in completely different ways.
Creating calendar events and reminders too!
A feature set that has remained unchanged since Siri’s launch…
Makes sense then, considering timers I set them on my watch and I don’t watch tv.
I used it when it launched to figure out it was useless and haven't gone back.
For CarPlay, yes. I don't need a virtual assistant to do things I can do but worse; I need reliable voice controls to send messages, start phone calls, change the map destination and such with as little friction as possible.
Siri needs faster and more flexible handling of Spotify, Google Maps and third-party messaging apps, not a slop generator.
Only for opening/closing the garage door, setting timers, and sending texts. What else do people use the digital assistants for?
I have a current case open with Apple with this issue. It does not work. And I don’t believe you. I’m sorry I just don’t believe you because Apple says there is a technical problem preventing this. That does not just affect me. Because I also tried it on three other phones of three other friends of mine and it does not work.
That's where people get confused - it's not a chatbot or an LLM - it's a voice command interface. Adding something to the shopping list, setting a timer, turning up the heating in the back room, playing some music, skipping a track, sending a message - it works perfectly well for - and that's what I use it for virtually every day.
This work is to turn it it into something else, more like a chatbot, presumably
Siri is already transitioning from an intent-based NLU system to an LLM.
In iOS 18.1 (on iPhone 15+) Siri is part intent-based, part on-device "Apple Intelligence" small LLM, and in iOS 18.2 it also supports off-device ChatGPT.
This year Siri 2.0 is expected to ditch the legacy intent-based system and instead use just the small on-device Apple Intelligence LLM plus (opt-in) off-device Gemini (running in some private cloud).
Why not? Apple's ChatGPT integration has been pretty explicitly anonymizing requests and doesn't require an account. Maybe I'm missing something.