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Apple's AI-powered Siri assistant could land as soon as WWDC 2024
- arshbot 3y agoFor the love of God, please. Siri is so inadequate, especially compared to virtually every other voice assistant it’s incredible. I rely very heavily on ChatGPT’s voice assistant, especially in the last week or so and all I wish is that I could plug into my iPhone for basic commands
- scarface_74 3y agoWhile it can’t do anything on the device, you can activate Siri and then say “Ask ChatGPT” if you have the app install and then have ChatGPT answer questions.
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoIs it possible in Android too?
- kylehotchkiss 3y agoDisappointing it wouldn't be available on the 14 pro or 15 pro, both of which have hardware that far exceeds their normal use cases. I'd be happy if it could still go to the network for some of the processing.
- wenc 3y agoProcessing is adequate but RAM is not. The 15 Max Pro only has 8GB RAM. You need 32 GB to run any decent sized LLMs. (You can quantize a smaller model but the quality of the output will be noticeably bad) I have an M2 Pro with 16gb ram and even I can’t run any decent sized LLMs locally.
- bpye 3y agoI would bet against Apple shipping any mobile phone with 32GB of RAM - even if the cost were acceptable the increased power draw likely would not be.
- wenc 3y agoThey would probably ship a specialized model trained provide specific answers on device and offload to remote for more general answers. Probably not a full Llama or Falcon. Their latest keyboard autocomplete for instance is a GPT-2 model.
- ALoverOfLats 3y agoI might actually consider the 16 Pro if Siri gets close to ChatGPT level intelligence on-device somehow. It desperately needs all the attention it can get.
- iAMkenough 3y agoI have a fear SiriGPT will get a fancy hype-filled launch, and then follow the exact same path of decay that today's Siri has followed.
- theshrike79 3y agoI give it 2 weeks after release when someone prompt engineers AI Siri to say something inflammatory and the internet will explode in schadenfreude.
- scarface_74 3y agoYou can do that with Siri today. Just tell it to call someone $ADerogatoryTerm
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoMaking (nearly) every AI chatbot startup obsolete overnight Welcome to the club
- bpye 3y agoSherlocked - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sherlock#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sherlock#English > 3. (computing slang) To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app. [from 2002]
- beenBoutIT 3y agoIIRC, Siri's so far behind the curve that there's almost no possible way for it to catch up to more advanced assistants. That said, China could theoretically tie Siri into its AI which could help level the playing field for both Apple and China. No idea how Apple could sell that to the American consumer.
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoWasn’t SIRI extremely capable at first but then Apple handicapped it? I remember something along the lines of an aquihire and high expectations but it shipped stunted. Maybe I have false memory.
- simonmesmith 3y agoI’m interested to see this happen but “as soon as” approximately June 2024 doesn’t feel that soon. It’s about as far from today as today is from the launch of GPT-4. Think of everything that’s happened since then. And things only seem to be speeding up. Still, I welcome a Siri that’s useful beyond setting timers.