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IMO the only good feature in it is the notification summaries, they're pretty accurate and useful. Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad.

Tagbert 2y ago
Siri doesn’t use Apple Intelligence. It is 10+ year-old technology that does not do learning. We won’t seen a truly smarter Siri until June when Apple previews the LLM Siri.
- Reason077 2y ago
  > "We won’t seen a truly smarter Siri until June when Apple previews the LLM Siri." Really, they should have started with Siri, the moment LLMs became a thing. Not try to graft battery-draining AI assistants into existing apps in often-not-very-useful ways!
  - Tagbert 2y ago
    Perhaps replacing Siri with an LLM within the resources of a phone is complicated and takes time to get right. I’m willing to wait to see where they go with this a while longer.
xyst 2y ago
> Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad Always has been (c.2012)
- hedora 2y ago
  But hey, I bet the metrics are up this year! You can no longer disable it without breaking CarPlay, and it’s started randomly activating when you press the power button on my phone when carplay is on. My theory is that typing a GPS destination into my car dashboard at a stoplight is too dangerous, and typing it on a phone keyboard is also too dangerous, but unlocking the phone, frantically yelling “cancel” until you find the “STFU Siri” button on the steering wheel, dismissing random useless carplay displays and THEN typing the address into the phone is completely safe. On a related note, they keep adding more distractions to the apple maps carplay screen. The other day, I was at an intersection, and the map rendered the sidewalks similarly to the road. It knew I was driving. Does it think using sidewalks as shortcuts is legal or something?
singularity2001 2y ago
Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad. and any attempt to replace this crapware with something better is sabotaged by the App Store guardians
latexr 2y ago
> the notification summaries, they're pretty accurate and useful. Far from a popular opinion. https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-notification-summaries-are-honestly-pretty-bad/ https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-not... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge93de21n0o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge93de21n0o

Tagbert 2y ago

Siri doesn’t use Apple Intelligence. It is 10+ year-old technology that does not do learning. We won’t seen a truly smarter Siri until June when Apple previews the LLM Siri.

Reason077 2y ago
> "We won’t seen a truly smarter Siri until June when Apple previews the LLM Siri." Really, they should have started with Siri, the moment LLMs became a thing. Not try to graft battery-draining AI assistants into existing apps in often-not-very-useful ways!
- Tagbert 2y ago
  Perhaps replacing Siri with an LLM within the resources of a phone is complicated and takes time to get right. I’m willing to wait to see where they go with this a while longer.

xyst 2y ago

> Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad Always has been (c.2012)

hedora 2y ago
But hey, I bet the metrics are up this year! You can no longer disable it without breaking CarPlay, and it’s started randomly activating when you press the power button on my phone when carplay is on. My theory is that typing a GPS destination into my car dashboard at a stoplight is too dangerous, and typing it on a phone keyboard is also too dangerous, but unlocking the phone, frantically yelling “cancel” until you find the “STFU Siri” button on the steering wheel, dismissing random useless carplay displays and THEN typing the address into the phone is completely safe. On a related note, they keep adding more distractions to the apple maps carplay screen. The other day, I was at an intersection, and the map rendered the sidewalks similarly to the road. It knew I was driving. Does it think using sidewalks as shortcuts is legal or something?

singularity2001 2y ago

Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad. and any attempt to replace this crapware with something better is sabotaged by the App Store guardians

latexr 2y ago

> the notification summaries, they're pretty accurate and useful. Far from a popular opinion. https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-notification-summaries-are-honestly-pretty-bad/ https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-not... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge93de21n0o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge93de21n0o