Comment by int_19h
7 months ago
They are competing against Gemini on Android, so it stands to reason that they need something on par with that. Per TFA they are still talking about running those models on Apple's own servers.
The more interesting question is how they're going to handle the 180 on all the talk about privacy.
Claude can be used via amazon bedrock technically on your own managed AWS infra...
But yeah you're not trusting Anthropic but Apple + Amazon
I dunno if thats even a win?
If the model runs on apple servers then the data isn't leaking anywhere. There's no 180 to discuss.
There's a big difference between running on a local device and running on Apple's servers, and their previous stance was that most things would be in the former category. Switching to cloud (even if it's Apple's cloud) for regular Siri stuff would be a big 180.
> They are competing against Gemini on Android, so it stands to reason that they need something on par with that
Why? What does Gemini actually do, that users actually use, that requires deep integration into the OS?
Things like notification summaries that aren't hallucinated, for example.
They could secretly make Siri slightly better in intervals. People have a low opinion of Siri anyways. No way they compare Siri to Gemini. For them, Siri might just stop sucking completely at some point and then the comparison is between the Siri of the last several weeks and the old Siri.
> Siri might just stop sucking completely at some point and then the comparison is between the Siri of the last several weeks and the old Siri.
The same thing did happen to Apple Maps, but many people still default to google (though google maps is still significantly better at finding businesses). But Apple was humiliated by the Apple Maps rollout. Siri has just been a slow-burning joke that's only really useful for setting a timer or reminder.
There's very low margin of error for a user trying something over speech (where they don't know what's actually capable). A user tends to try something once, if it fails they nearly never try it again. So now the question is, how do you get a user to try it again when you've fixed it? Alexa's approach has just about driven everyone mad "By the way, did you know..."