Old Siri’s antiquity hides the New Siri

David Pogue runs Siri through 125 tests: Also, this is ethical AI: It deceives nobody, puts nobody out of work, and draws 100% of its power from renewable sources. To which John Gruber writes: I keep doing things manually, then thinking “Hey, I should have tried that with Siri…”, trying it again with Siri after the fact, and realizing only then that Siri accomplished the thing. I stopped using Siri so long ago I forgot it exists. My iPhone 13 mini doesn’t support Siri AI and I’m sure I won’t miss it. It does appear to work well from what I’ve read across multiple reviewers. The iPhone user base is large and I suspect it won’t be long before Siri adoption increases again, I wonder how many will ditch their ChatGPT or other frontier model usage as Siri improves. I see a parallel here with Meta Muse. Both Apple and Meta fell in the “falling behind in AI” (or existential risk) storyline across the tech media. But they have both productized in a way that makes sense (and potentially) adds…

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