patchythepirate

macplusplus said:

patchythepirate said:

macplusplus said:

patchythepirate said:

"Apple wants Siri to become more useful to users.."

Can we just stop right there? How many little-used features need to be added before we get the fucking basic, rudimentary functionality and context awareness that was promised at siri's launch 6 years ago???

Apple has promised nothing. They have enough human intelligence to not behave with bold claims and manners in such a controversial subject as AI. Yet they provided a phone that recognizes your face. Just consider how many years had to pass for that and imagine how many years have to pass to get a phone that recognizes not just your face but also your habits.

Again, you’re not making sense. 

No no one is asking for true artificial intelligence.

All I want is basic intelligence that was promised at the start. Allow me to dictate simple messages and reminders without me having to manually correct them 80% of the time. Don’t try to make a phone call to 76557 because I hesitated for half a second trying to recall the rest of the number. Don’t have maps send me to a different fucking continent bc of a basic dictation or search error. 

Not joking, today I searched for “cps” on maps and I got this bullshit:
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Can’t even make this stuff up. Siri, maps, “intelligence” is fucking terrible. 

And btw, all of you apologists arent helping. 

So you want all your errors forgiven or ignored but you don't ignore Siri's single error. Is any call center robot tolerant enough to your hesitation for half a second in typing the next number? If you make continuously such errors you may confuse even your human colleagues, pity for them... Siri's adaptation capabilities may be limited, it may get confused instead of getting adapted, but you are a human, a much capable creature than a software layer, you can and should adapt. Don't expect help from apologists, help yourself.

BTW, I got the same Zaragoza thing for "cps", but when I wrote "cps miami" Maps returned some meaningful results. That simply shows that you are not under continuous surveillance from Apple !

macplusplus said:

patchythepirate said:

"Apple wants Siri to become more useful to users.."

Can we just stop right there? How many little-used features need to be added before we get the fucking basic, rudimentary functionality and context awareness that was promised at siri's launch 6 years ago???

Apple has promised nothing. They have enough human intelligence to not behave with bold claims and manners in such a controversial subject as AI. Yet they provided a phone that recognizes your face. Just consider how many years had to pass for that and imagine how many years have to pass to get a phone that recognizes not just your face but also your habits.

macplusplus said:

patchythepirate said:

hodar said:

So, if you think Siri is stupid now, just wait.

Try asking Siri a very basic question, like "How old am I", or "When will I be 59 1/2 years old".  Siri will suggest websites; which is asinine.  Siri knows my birthday, anniversary, the birthday of my kids, friends and neighbors (as long as I have the information in my contacts); but is unable to use that date, and a calendar to answer very basic questions.  Voice recognition on Siri has improved - but Siri's ability to do anything useful with that information is almost 5 years behind both Google, and Amazon - which is pathetic - since Apple practically invented a useful Virtual Assistant.

Now, between Cortana, Echo and Google Echo - Siri is pretty much a dead last competitor; when it should be the BEST - by far.

Exactly. What you say should be obvious to anyone. And of course critics are missing the point. It's not about the couple examples you mentioned, its the implication of those examples, extrapolated to so many other scenarios, showing that siri is incredibly stupid, and doesn't use basic information or logic that should be easily accessible to it. A similar example that I remember from my own experience (there are so many that I don't remember as well), was siri giving me directions to an address that is hours away based on one misrepresented character in dictation, even when the correct address is in my gd iphone contacts.

Wow, you are so serious about that "machine intelligence" thing !.. Sorry bro, machines will never "know" anything by themselves. What you call "intelligent assistant" is just a vocal layer in the user interface, nothing more. Pop-culture beliefs and urban legends cannot guide technology, math and engineering can...

JustSomeGuy1 said:

"That is roughly a 25-percent single-core gain and almost 50-percent multi-core."

You guys are usually better at math. It's a more than 90% improvement on multi-core.

From a hardware standpoint, this is really impressive. It means that the performance scales basically *linearly* going from 2 to 4 cores. (Since there's 4 efficiency cores in both models, contributing approximately the same towards the results, scaling is better than the 90% figure!) This is a pretty big deal as it means that Apple's capable of building an interconnect that not only scales to at least 8 cores, but that power use for the interconnect is scaling well too.

Until recently I was not convinced that putting an Ax chip in a MacBook was viable, but last year's A11 changed my mind. This puts the nail in the coffin of the idea that Apple can't scale their processors up to compete with the best 4-8 core processors Intel can build. Just using the tech on display in the A12x, replacing efficiency cores with performance cores, they could probably beat intel's best chips now. (There's some question as to how far they can push clocks on the current design without hitting a wall due to pipeline length, but in any case they're certainly close... and they haven't even tried to optimize for a laptop power envelope yet.)