Apple Generative AI Features and Smarter Siri Could Launch Next Year

Apple is developing a large array of features that use generative AI, including a new version Siri, that could launch next year, according to...

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This is going to be pretty interesting, despite seeming far behind Apple is very well positioned to benefit from the AI developments. Apple has an opportunity for deep integration of AI features into the operating systems as well as offline compute through specialised silicon design that no other company really has.
Is this why Jon Stewart got canceled?
- This and China
- I really want to know what he and his guests would have had to say.
Better late than never.

But even more interesting than when is whether this uses local AI models or if this becomes again a data protection trust sink.
- It will most certainly use local models. (Locally tuned from a common base model) That’s kind of their whole differentiator.
  
  We’ll see. To date there’s no local runnable generative LLM model that comes close to the gold standard GPT-4. Even coming close to GPT-3.5-turbo counts as impressive.
One thing Apple is good at is waiting until the market is ripe and then releasing a better product. Like mp3 players, phones, tablets, etc.
- Except Siri keeps getting worse every year. In terms of actual usefulness, connectivity issues and plain old voice recognition.
  
  And it seems to not be just Siri. Every Alexa device in my house has gotten more deaf and more stupid. But yes Siri has declined recently I agree.
  
  In my experience it’s not really getting worse, it’s just not getting substantially better either.

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