[simonh]

That's fair. Apple does work on all kinds of stuff that never makes the light of day, mainly because it shouldn't. It's not better than the competition until it ships and proves it in the market. Apple have their misses too.

I'm not convinced Apple needs to, or is interested in competing in this space. Yes they have Siri, but there's no guarantee these language models will ever actually be safely functional in a role like that.

Even if they are, is this really an interface people will want to use? I did use Siri to set alarms and such for a while, but even though it did it reliably and conveniently, eventually I stoped bothering. Who want's to talk to their phone on the train? I just found it cognitively less intrusive to just set alarms manually.