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Same experience. Alexa is DIMENSIONS better than Siri. Siri can create a timer ... okay even an alarm. That’s it. It is comically bad. Their text to speech is

Same experience. Alexa is DIMENSIONS better than Siri. Siri can create a timer ... okay even an alarm. That’s it. It is comically bad. Their text to speech is excellent, but the rest is unbelievable bad. If Apple has some kind of silver bullet, it’s time to put it out or be left behind.

bradDonniger 4y ago
I don’t have all the details because NDAs but I ask questions and get nods and grins from colleagues and friends at chip companies; Apple (and nVidia and Intels) silver bullet to cloud hosted, software based AI is AI chips. We’re circling back around to local compute being the default as hardware performance of next gen phones and tablets reaches a “good enough” point for most users. There will be scientific problems that will require modern server clusters but most consumer facing AI needs will be done on hardware within a decade. I’m not saying AGI in a decade, I’m saying cutting edge logic embedded in software now will be the basis for logic in chips in the years to come.
fbdab103 4y ago
Can we take a minute to comment on how bad the text correction is on the iPhone?
Tiktaalik 4y ago
Amazon has publicly walked back from Alexa because turns out people don't use it for much beyond creating a timer and it doesn't make money. I think it's quite likely that Apple realized the same quite a bit earlier and eased up on Siri versus focusing on other things.
- vbezhenar 4y ago
  Honestly I observe zero progress in the last 10 years. My first iPhone was 4S. My current iPhone is 8. My use-case is absolutely the same. Calls, SMS, Whatsapp, navigation, books, browser. The same with macs. I boot, open IDE, Terminal and that's about it. Yes, hardware's getting faster (which is compensated by software getting slower). But nothing changed dramatically. I think that the only thing that changed is adoption of fingerprint reader. Both in iPhone 8 and in mac. AI might be that thing that could tremendously change my usage pattern. But it should be as smart as human assistant. GPT4-level intelligence might have the necessary power for that.

bradDonniger 4y ago

I don’t have all the details because NDAs but I ask questions and get nods and grins from colleagues and friends at chip companies; Apple (and nVidia and Intels) silver bullet to cloud hosted, software based AI is AI chips. We’re circling back around to local compute being the default as hardware performance of next gen phones and tablets reaches a “good enough” point for most users. There will be scientific problems that will require modern server clusters but most consumer facing AI needs will be done on hardware within a decade. I’m not saying AGI in a decade, I’m saying cutting edge logic embedded in software now will be the basis for logic in chips in the years to come.

fbdab103 4y ago

Can we take a minute to comment on how bad the text correction is on the iPhone?

Tiktaalik 4y ago

Amazon has publicly walked back from Alexa because turns out people don't use it for much beyond creating a timer and it doesn't make money. I think it's quite likely that Apple realized the same quite a bit earlier and eased up on Siri versus focusing on other things.

vbezhenar 4y ago
Honestly I observe zero progress in the last 10 years. My first iPhone was 4S. My current iPhone is 8. My use-case is absolutely the same. Calls, SMS, Whatsapp, navigation, books, browser. The same with macs. I boot, open IDE, Terminal and that's about it. Yes, hardware's getting faster (which is compensated by software getting slower). But nothing changed dramatically. I think that the only thing that changed is adoption of fingerprint reader. Both in iPhone 8 and in mac. AI might be that thing that could tremendously change my usage pattern. But it should be as smart as human assistant. GPT4-level intelligence might have the necessary power for that.