Siri's AI Overhaul Delayed Again (yahoo.com)
- Reference: 0180777996
- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/02/12/0528239/siris-ai-overhaul-delayed-again
- Source link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-latest-attempt-launch-siri-195328719.html
The new Siri -- first announced at WWDC in June 2024 and originally due by early 2025 -- struggles to reliably process queries, takes too long to respond and sometimes falls back on OpenAI's ChatGPT instead of Apple's own technology, the report said. Apple has instructed engineers to begin testing new Siri capabilities on iOS 26.5 instead, due in May, and internal builds of that update include a settings toggle labeled "preview" for the personal data features. A more ambitious chatbot-style Siri code-named Campo, powered by Google servers and a custom Gemini model, is in development for iOS 27 in September.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-latest-attempt-launch-siri-195328719.html
Still time for an iPhone (Score:2)
About the time you start asking ChatGPT how to find and change a setting in your phone instead of hunting through endless menus, you realize that AI will totally change mobile. But I don't think anybody has come close yet. Apple could still be the first to have a truly working AI assistant that does most of what you would expect and eliminates a lot of the tedium of menus and swipes and tap-and-holds and gestures.
Re:Still no time for an iPhone (Score:2)
one cannot expect our incompetent upper class overlords to produce anything but even more overpriced and unimaginative technology, let's not forget the goal is not to produce good tech but to extract the most revenue in order to increase shareholder value
our devices and our services are designed to exploit us, manipulate us and surveil us, welcome to our classist corporatocracy
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If phone interfaces (And windows 11) were designed by professional interface designers instead of as an afterthought by programmers then we wouldn't have to search to find functionality, it would be obvious where it is.
WHAT?! I am shocked. SHOCKED! (Score:2)
Well, not that shocked.
Actually, now that I think about it... I kind of expected this.
Please delay the new features... (Score:2)
... just focus on fixing the issues like bugs. Way too many problems. V26 is awful. Also, please stop doing new major versions every year. Why not slow down and take the time?
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Seconded. There are so many things that need refactored in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and other *OS items. Not to mention iCloud.
Even something as basic as Time Machine needs help. Ideally, have the ability for iCloud to handle S3, and Time Machine able to do deduplicating S3 backups similar to Restic or Duplicacy. Duplicacy has some nice things, including public key encryption of data, so machines can back up and deduplicate, but not read the data.
Then comes other items. Macs need something like BootCamp so
Yeah (Score:2)
"struggles to reliably process queries" kinda built into the tech...
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Nothing you can't fix by building 8-10 more datacenters and dumping in them 4 or 5 more "agentic expert" models to loop over each others' "reasoning" per request.
Re: Yeah (Score:1)
The protypical arrogant ./-er which totally ignores that human-generated production code has one bug per 80-120 lines (exact figure depends on the sample being considered).