I’ve said this before a zillion times, but Siri is only good for imperative stuff. Commands. “Play this song”, “make a note”, “set this alarm”, etc.
And even that’s only barely true: it gets things wrong even within that very narrow set of use cases. But it at least kinda works most of the time.
Siri is absolutely not useful, and never has been, and likely never will be, when it comes to “conversational” use cases, like asking it questions or getting advice, etc.
The thing is, I only ever use voice for imperative stuff in the first place. If I want to know things or do research or have a conversation, etc, I’d much rather type into a real keyboard and read the results at my leisure. Or if I’m at a phone I can use voice to text to make it easier to do this, but it’s not really the same thing as a “conversation”.
So for me, I’m keeping Siri for the use cases it works for (home automation, timers, music, etc), because I really don’t think OpenAI will ever be good/useful for that sort of thing, even if Apple opened up the API’s to let it do so. An LLM is just too heavy-weight.
Siri can set a timer or reminder for me sometimes. The rest is utter trash and it’s embarrassing that the largest company in the world by value, and sitting on ungodly amounts of cash, won’t or can’t improve Siri. The usual set of events is I ask Siri something and her response is so non-sensical and bad that my girlfriend and I just laugh at it and shake our heads. Then I’m reminded again why I never ask Siri anything.
And even that’s only barely true: it gets things wrong even within that very narrow set of use cases. But it at least kinda works most of the time.
Siri is absolutely not useful, and never has been, and likely never will be, when it comes to “conversational” use cases, like asking it questions or getting advice, etc.
The thing is, I only ever use voice for imperative stuff in the first place. If I want to know things or do research or have a conversation, etc, I’d much rather type into a real keyboard and read the results at my leisure. Or if I’m at a phone I can use voice to text to make it easier to do this, but it’s not really the same thing as a “conversation”.
So for me, I’m keeping Siri for the use cases it works for (home automation, timers, music, etc), because I really don’t think OpenAI will ever be good/useful for that sort of thing, even if Apple opened up the API’s to let it do so. An LLM is just too heavy-weight.