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> "Apple is another strong player (but they don't have productivity tools like docs, sheets or youtube)." Can anyone help me understand how Apple allows Siri t
by chrisweekly 3y ago
> "Apple is another strong player (but they don't have productivity tools like docs, sheets or youtube)."
Can anyone help me understand how Apple allows Siri to remain so absurdly incompetent? Last night I watched the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which Larry David's Siri interactions devolve into an apoplectic rant -- and part of the reason it was so funny is that it's so relatable. I rarely even try Siri anymore, but when I do it's still just abysmal. Are they deliberately handicapping it, to boost the perceived relative benefits of a future successor?
- whimsicalism 3y agoApple has very little ML talent. They're basically resting on their laurels in the phone market.
- chrisweekly 3y agoThat's what I thought too; but all the upthread and peer commments keep asserting Apple is a (real, not just hypothetical/potential/future) player in the space.
- bombcar 3y agoApple went too early to ML for Siri. Siri was "decently good" when it was basically a voice-activated command line, and you could figure out what you needed to run to get it to do what you wanted. When they added ML to it, it entirely went to shit, and it has never recovered. Perhaps Apple will be able to use an LLM to make it finally not shit.
- whimsicalism 3y agowell yeah, people on this website opine a lot about things they know little about. they're starting to make moves, but they don't have a large talent base. Apple will start using this tech now that it has been commoditized and since it is a big consumer tech company they will put a nice polish. But it's not where big research is being done.
- fooker 3y agoApple refuses to pay top of the market. They'll have to get really lucky with someone who grows from within.