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I think that this could be the
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biggest uh Improvement to Siri that
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we've seen since it's been released and
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that's because there have been no
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improvements to Siri since it's been
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released in fact it's only been getting
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worse I feel like Siri understands me
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less now than it did when it was first
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released apple is of course going to be
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making a big push into Ai and uh there
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was an interesting report out this week
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that covered some of the details about
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what they might be doing with AI and not
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only that but how their realization that
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behind in AI definitely contributed to
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them abandoning their car project so
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that they could dedicate more resources
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into catching up which I had not heard
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before that was that was a new piece of
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story you listen to us talking about it
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I mean I didn't no when usually when one
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of you were talking I just there spacing
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out wait what's the what's the
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equivalent of eyes glazing over for ears
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you know what's worse is it was probably
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me talking about it at some point you
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know that's probably what actually
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happened and I don't even remember it
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Apple reportedly intends to fulfill the
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hopes of so many iPhone users by giving
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the Siri voice assistant an upgrade with
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artificial intelligence Siri supposedly
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won't become a general purpose chatbot
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it'll be focused on better handling the
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sort of tasks iPhone users need so I
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think from what I read essentially the
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ones that it already does but not well
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Apple is expected to show off its AI
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WWDC in June when it releases an
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improved Siri that is more
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conversational and versatile the New
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York Times reported Friday the plan supp
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portly is not to make I just read that
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part well I'll read it again for
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emphasis because I think this is
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actually important the plan supposedly
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is not to make Siri into a direct
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competitor for chat chat GPT so they're
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going to enable you know generative AI
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in some capacity and it it sounds like
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they're even talking with open AI along
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with everybody else on how they can
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weave open AI into Siri I kind of wonder
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if they're even going to call it Siri
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because Siri the brand is so tainted at
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this point that I don't know if they can
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recover it it it might be dead so they
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might need to change the name to
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something else but whatever they change
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it to if they do change it to anything
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they definitely have to make a name
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that's easy to invoke so that you can
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call it it can't be something long and
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ardous us cuz that's how lazy we've all
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become as a society like people used to
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break rocks all day with like pickaxes
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and now we have to say more than three
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syllables we can't we can't be bothered
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to do it that's where we're at as a
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society but let me continue the story
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here you didn't want my cultural
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commentary weaved in there too bad uh
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let's see here quote Apple has focused
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on making Siri better better at handling
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tasks that already does including
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setting timers creating calendar
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appointments and adding items to a
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grocery list it would also be be able to
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summarize tech text messages well that
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would be helpful maybe also understand
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the words that are coming out of our
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mouths so that the text messages don't
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change uh he has a ball to he hos a ball
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like the avocado which happens to me all
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the time for some reason let's see here
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it's assumed that the built-in
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applications will be able to for example
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summarize emails web pages and text
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message chats users will probably be
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able to seamlessly remove objects from
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images and perhaps add them or they
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might be able to tweak their photos
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during spoken commands Okay blah blah
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blah blah blah blah blah blah blah so on
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and so forth I I I still often wonder
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how much people are going to use these
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kinds of features and how often but uh
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comparing what you saw in the open AI
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demo with what you experience in
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day-to-day was like oh my God maybe it
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is a good thing they killed that car
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project maybe it is a good idea that
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they uh double down on making this right
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just it's just it's just laughable and I
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mean I hope they do more than make it
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you know set timers a little bit better
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I mean that's actually one of the things
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that it it frequently works for exactly
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like I I don't know how much better that
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needs to get for instance but uh and
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frankly that's one of the only things I
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use it for anymore because half the
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other time it it's doesn't do what I ask
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it to do even when it's something it
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I use Siri mostly on accident when
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sometimes it just activates
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automatically like it just did when we
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were having that conversation and it's
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like I can't find a search for Brown
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dogs jump I think that's what it just
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said to me I'm like what that's how I
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interact with Siri for the most part not
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on purpose but by accident honestly like
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most of my interactions uh have to do
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with my wife asking Sira question in a
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room down the hall and and the and the
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homepod mini failing to answer it in my
5:04
office and my so my wife just keeps
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saying it again over and over louder hey
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Siri what are you doing to hey Siri what
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do you I'm like it's answering it in my
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office with asking the question but that
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that's one of the things that I find
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annoying see sure just ask sorry uh I I
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find that annoying that I've got so many
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instances of Apple devic in my house
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that are always listening and you know
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apple apple says it figured out how to
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uh you know has all this fancy stuff in
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the background that makes it you know go
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to the right one but nine times out of
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10 it it does not go to the one that I
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am uh expecting or hoping to have it
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have oh yeah that happens to me all the
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time one last quote out of this story
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Apple also fears that if it fails to
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develop its own AI system the iPhone
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could become a dumb brick compared to
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other technology so a big part of this
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is just reactive because I think to your
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point earlier Lewis like a lot of people
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are scrambling to implement their own AI
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systems but don't maybe know what
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they're going to do with them yet or if
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people are actually going to use them
