[jonplackett]

They’re being sued because it is nowhere. They’re trying to do it on device with a tiny model. All the google Ai stuff is cloud based, run on their massive Google cloud data centres. Apple don’t have those, so getting more talent isn’t gonna fix it!

[threeseed]

No. Siri has three parts.

On device AI model which handles light tasks like notifications. Apple Compute Cloud which runs a more powerful version of the same model and handles more complex operations. And integration with OpenAI, Gemini etc for LLM tasks.

[jonplackett]

In practice it rarely uses ChatGPT. And even when it does, it doesn’t work properly.

Eg. The other day I had a birthday invitation for a kids party sent to me as a jpg. I figure, I’ll ask Siri to add it to my calendar. After a lot of persuasion I manage to get it to send it to ChatGPT to process it (which makes no sense since even the photos app can read text in an image).

But anyway, it sends it to ChatGPT. Which replies by reading out the contents of the image including all the day and time and location. And that’s it. No action from Siri.

So I follow up with ‘so can you add it to my calendar now?’ Siri replies “what would you like to me add to your calendar?”

That was 5 minutes of my life I won’t get back…