The company’s top executives are taking “intense personal accountability.”
  • Apple’s progress with Siri and artificial intelligence has been slow, and features promised in June remain delayed.
  • At a Siri team meeting, senior director Robby Walker acknowledged the frustration within the team, describing the delays as “ugly.”
  • Features like Siri understanding personal context and taking action based on a user’s screen are still not ready and may not make it into iOS 19.
  • Challenges include quality issues that caused these features to malfunction up to a third of the time and conflicts with Apple’s marketing division over showcasing incomplete features.
  • Apple has withdrawn related advertisements and added disclaimers on its website, citing extended development times.
  • Senior executives, including Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea, are reportedly taking personal accountability for the delays.
  • Walker emphasized that the team’s work is impressive and that the delayed features will be released once they meet Apple’s standards.
  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    101·
    8 hours ago
    • Take screenshot of screen
    • Send screenshot to Claude 3.7 or any other decent chatbot. Even GPT-3 is light years smarter than current Siri, but I don’t know it if can analyze images
    • Run Claude’s response through a text-to-Siri-speech layer

    There, now Siri can see your screen. Why can’t Apple accomplish this? Why are megacorps so inept?

    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      This is the most defensible point. Designing APIs to determine what content on your screen is ok to send to a third party (Apple offers ChatGPT integration) is a decent amount of work.

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 hours ago

      Spend 5 minutes creating a bash script

      Spend 5 billion dollars on an overly complicated summarizer

      Why the fuck would I wanna write bash