Comment by hnlmorg

> Anything else I'm not going to ask my phone, I'm going to take it out and head to Google.

But my while point was there’s a plethora of different reasons why “heading to Google” isn’t always practical. Like when you’re driving. When you’re cooking. Even when you’re just playing with the kids, a question gets asked, and you don’t want to spoil the momentum of the play by staining at an LCD screen for 2 minutes.

Siri really damn convenient for those occasions when you want an action performed but don’t want the distraction of performing that action.

In fact, I’d go further and say that’s the biggest selling point for current gen consumer AI.

> Maybe they're "behind" (although, this tech is still so early I don't think anyone is truly behind)

The tech is still early but Siri are most definitely behind.

It’s not even remotely close to the capabilities of even open source models, let alone the commercial ones.

And the fact that they had to bolt on ChatGPT in such an ad hoc way speaks volumes about how Apple realise themselves just how far behind Siri has gotten.

I think you’re right that it’s not their long term plan. But that doesn’t change that it presently feels like a very ugly kludge.