• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    26 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    When Apple first launched Siri in 2011 alongside the iPhone 4S, the company made a series of very compelling ads showing how you might use this newfangled voice assistant thing.

    According to Bloomberg, The New York Times, and others, Apple is going to unveil a huge overhaul for the assistant, making Siri more reliable thanks to large language models but without much new functionality.

    But Apple also appears to be working on, and may be almost ready to launch, a version of Siri that will actually integrate inside of apps, meaning the assistant can take action on your device on your behalf.

    If you’ve used Siri, you know how frequently it mishears names, misunderstands commands, and falls back to “here’s some stuff I found on the web” when all you wanted was to play a podcast.

    You have to say, Hey Siri, remind me to water the grass in Todoist, which is a weird sentence that makes no sense and, in my experience, fails half the time anyway.

    Humane, Rabbit, Google, and others are all working on similar ideas — “agent” is the buzzword of the summer in the AI world — and no one has demonstrated that it’s ready yet.


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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    It’ll be another half-baked, rushed-out-the-door-to-please-shareholders assistant that doesn’t do anything anybody wants.

    So basically Siri as usual.