Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
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Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative A.I. to iPhones after the company’s most significant reorganization in a decade.
  • Cosmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Siri was already behind the competition from its initial launch. I get the sneaking suspicion this will be an r1 with better ergonomics.

    • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Siri was already behind the competition from its initial launch.

      Apple Siri release date: October 4, 2011

      Microsoft Cortana release date: April 2, 2014

      Amazon Alexa release date: November 6, 2014

      Google Assistant release date: May 18, 2016

      Apple generally adopts technologies later than others so they could build on top of others learnings; things here was the exact opposite where they started years before others, and ended up paving the way to allow others to build better products based on their learnings.

      • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Google Voice Actions for Android released in 2010, well before Siri did. Voice search as an in-browser function on the website in summer 2011, and even had a phone number for people to call in with Google queries by voice. From what I remember, Google’s speech to text recognition was much, much better than Siri’s at launch, and the gap only widened over time.

        And then Google Now in 2012 was the version that started having fuzzy smart functionality, where it would link things together as an “assistant.” The then-Google-owned Motorola released its Moto X in 2013 with an always-listening touchless trigger word for Google Now functionality.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      6·
      6 months ago

      Given what we’ve seen of the current trend of generative AI chatbots, it’ll continue to be useless.

      • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Yes but now it will be useless and make stuff up instead of just saying “Something went wrong” or “I don’t understand” to every request

      • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        6 months ago

        I don’t agree. It can be leaps and bounds better. Won’t be amazing but if it’s essentially ChatGPT with a voice, it’ll be a huge upgrade.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      Always has been.

      Did Siri be good at any moment though?

      I remember it sucked since its conception and in the most recent iOS versions too.

      • Pussista@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        It always sucked tbh, but I think what the OP meant is that when it came out, it was understandable that it was very limited and not good, yet still innovative and interesting. Apple just never really improved it beyond that.

  • LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
    11·
    6 months ago

    It’s amazing how very far ahead siri was at the beginning, and how extremely far behind it became. It’s a massive miss for Tim Cook’s Apple