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Apple says their users make 2.5B Siri requests per day. Sounds like people want it?
by jhack 13d ago
Apple says their users make 2.5B Siri requests per day. Sounds like people want it?
- Hodgewocket 13d agoAre they aware?
- moribvndvs 13d agoEven though I do use it, a choice would be nice.
- GuinansEyebrows 13d agoi wonder how many of them are like 100% of my requests? - "set a timer for 14 minutes" - "remind me to make a doctor's appointment tomorrow at noon" - "turn off the bedroom lights" that don't require any form of AI and have functioned perfectly well (aside from having a hard time when i mumble) for years on non-AI versions of Siri?
- thewebguyd 13d agoI suspect even some of the more "advanced" queries they demoed off, i.e., "what was that restaurant John and I talked about last week?" also not require LLMs whatsoever and could have been accomplished with a simple search.
- anamexis 13d agoI think you're going to need some kind of ML to turn that question into a structured search, and interpret the results.
- regenschutz 13d agoNot necessarily. NLP is possible to do without any ML. See ELIZA [0] as an example, which used pattern matching and substitution to process natural language. A few simple rules can cover a majority of requests. It's still AI, but not ML. Though I do agree that the ML-based NLP thst we have today is much more usable, albeit more compute-expensive. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
- exographicskip 13d agoThis matches my use cases. Poor speech to text recognition so I don't trust siri to do anything non-trivial
- dreamcompiler 13d agoSiri was always AI, but the popular connotation of "AI" changes all the time. It now means "LLMs built with transformers."
- tiborsaas 13d agoDo they have a breakdown for platforms? iOS vs. macOS, I'd bet most of it is iOS. I don't have Siri enabled, I've never felt the need for it on desktop.
- nozzlegear 13d agoI use it on the desktop.
- thewhitetulip 13d agoHow many apple devices exist globally? Does everyone use siri? How about keeping it opt-in?
- javier2 13d agoI dont even have Siri enabled, but even less so on macOS.
- a1o 13d agoIf you have a car you are forced to because you can’t use Apple Car Play if you don’t enable Siri. I also don’t use but I have to have it enabled to be able to use Google Maps, and Siri occasionally mistakes a conversation for being invited to listen and speak.
- mathisfun123 13d ago> 2.5B Siri requests per day that's like one request per day per user lolol
- pesus 13d agoI get forced to use it While using CarPlay. I don't particularly want it, though, considering it still regularly fails at basic tasks like adding the currently playing song to a playlist.
- vitalrune 13d agoThe issue it's they make it very hard to remove it to clear the space used by it, i think you got to boot into recovery mode and do some risky crap, my macbook is almost out of space just from development cache..
- drooopy 13d agoNever met anyone who used siri out in public, to be honest.