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What do people think of Apple's Siri?

What do people think of Apple's Siri?

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  • Pretty bad. It seems to have very limited context, and it mostly cant follow up on things if you have additional things to ask. It was ~fine when it first came out, but seems to have made basically zero progress since then, and frankly feels pretty dumb compared to talking with modern LLM-type apps.
    by richstokes
  • yeah agree, i guess there was no compounding scaling tech that was used for siri but now that the new siri is coming out, it's interesting to see how people react to it and if they change their views.

    i'm certainly open to changing mines!

    by hireshbrem
  • call me weird but i never got into voice anything

    i don't want to talk out loud to my devices, i just want to turn a dial or press a button and move on. god forbid i have to type.

    by moomoo11
  • you're WEIRD lol

    you've never wanted to say "hey siri, can you start a timer for 10 mins?" or "hey siri, what's the weather like?".

    would you talk to your devices, if it made you more productive/do more cool stuff?

    by hireshbrem
  • I’m also really curious.

    I usually prefer using other voice assistants, but Siri is kind of dumb, so I pretty much never use it.

    by nexmoe
  • I see. What other voice assistants do you prefer using?
    by hireshbrem
  • I’m not a voice assistant person, so I thought it was fine for what it was, especially historically. I’d mostly just use it to set timers and things.

    Right now seems to be an odd time to evaluate it and prompt people to trash it, considering they just announced a complete overhaul coming in the fall that’s currently in a developer beta with a public beta coming next month.

    by al_borland
  • I assume he’s asking about the new Siri. Or else he’s a time traveler
    by fdgwhite
  • me too, timers are one thing i use it for. i don't know about the overhaul tbh, I think Apple Intelligence is another topic itself but I am curious as to how/what they will do specifically.

    I think Apple holding back on AI investment is crazy.

    by hireshbrem