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I notice Siri still continues to be some embarrassing afterthought for Apple. At least to non-native English speakers, Siri is really atrocious. Most of the ti

I notice Siri still continues to be some embarrassing afterthought for Apple. At least to non-native English speakers, Siri is really atrocious. Most of the time, it doesn't even get the simplest queries right.

threeseed 3y ago
Based on the comments here [1] Siri is on old, hard to maintain codebase. Which means Apple is likely going to just replace it entirely with a new LLM based system which we know they are working on. [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/15/apple-engineers-working-on-chatgpt-like-ai/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/15/apple-engineers-working...
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jansan 3y ago
Siri is the Safari of voice assistants.
- sergiomattei 3y ago
  But Safari is actually competent… and good?
  - jansan 3y ago
    Let's say it has improved.
    - Toutouxc 3y ago
      When? I’ve been using it for the last 10 years (exclusively!) and I’ve had zero issues with it.
      - yowzadave 3y ago
        I think these complaints sometimes come from web developers who perceive Safari as being slow to adopt web standard APIs. IMO this is justified in some cases, and not in others where Apple resists implementing certain APIs for principled and/or technical reasons. For the most part, these issues don’t have a big impact on end users, except when web developers choose to target Chrome-only.
      - jansan 3y ago
        It's ok for users because we web developers have been working around Safari's issues for the last 10 years. Has gotten better, though.
- tclover 3y ago
  I only use siri for cooking - hey siri, set timer 30 minutes, or - siri, wake me up in 2 hours
Gigachad 3y ago
Don’t worry, as a native speaker it’s not much better. While it can transcribe your request well, it very rarely can actually do anything more than search the internet.
- jbverschoor 3y ago
  Well, it's even so idiotic than WHEN it understands me (it can't handle any environmental noise.), it will actively change the name of people I call regularly into the name of people I haven't speoken to in 5+ years. It's plain stupid.

threeseed 3y ago

Based on the comments here [1] Siri is on old, hard to maintain codebase. Which means Apple is likely going to just replace it entirely with a new LLM based system which we know they are working on. [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/15/apple-engineers-working-on-chatgpt-like-ai/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/15/apple-engineers-working...

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jansan 3y ago

Siri is the Safari of voice assistants.

sergiomattei 3y ago
But Safari is actually competent… and good?
- jansan 3y ago
  Let's say it has improved.
  - Toutouxc 3y ago
    When? I’ve been using it for the last 10 years (exclusively!) and I’ve had zero issues with it.
    - yowzadave 3y ago
      I think these complaints sometimes come from web developers who perceive Safari as being slow to adopt web standard APIs. IMO this is justified in some cases, and not in others where Apple resists implementing certain APIs for principled and/or technical reasons. For the most part, these issues don’t have a big impact on end users, except when web developers choose to target Chrome-only.
    - jansan 3y ago
      It's ok for users because we web developers have been working around Safari's issues for the last 10 years. Has gotten better, though.
tclover 3y ago
I only use siri for cooking - hey siri, set timer 30 minutes, or - siri, wake me up in 2 hours

Gigachad 3y ago

Don’t worry, as a native speaker it’s not much better. While it can transcribe your request well, it very rarely can actually do anything more than search the internet.

jbverschoor 3y ago
Well, it's even so idiotic than WHEN it understands me (it can't handle any environmental noise.), it will actively change the name of people I call regularly into the name of people I haven't speoken to in 5+ years. It's plain stupid.