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ravnorodom said:

That ChatGPT thingie creates some serious ripple effects.

I hope one of these ripple effects will be that Apple gets the impetus to seriously improve Siri. My latest aggravation is that although I have been able to say “speak screen” , and Siri would do it suddenly one day it stopped doing it. I had several conversations with Apple support and we could not get it to speak screen again. “ sorry, there’s nothing to read here.”.  Also, recently, when I ask Siri to read my calendar for tomorrow it will just tell me how many events I have for tomorrow, and will not read out what they are like it was doing. The sudden disruptions in service are very annoying especially when you end up spending days on different forums  trying to find out if Apple has merely taken away a function, as they did, when Siri used to be able to search your photos for objects, dates, etc. or if it is a problem with your device.

Afganblues said: “I really do not understand why Apple won’t allow something like “hey HomePod” instead of hey Siri for everything. “

Absolutely. 

mikethemartian said:

Why does he always look like he is praying?

Well, at least he is not playing the accordion.

I’m very happy to see that Apple is taking Siri seriously now, but for as long as people have been complaining about it, I wonder why they didn’t do it before…

I hope superpowered Siri is not restricted to the M3 chip. I have an M2 and I have been waiting for Siri to be updated for many years. Come on Apple, so have many other people been waiting and to restrict it to the newest device would be a really bad look. 

I foresee a massively upgraded Siri by end of year. 

I truly hope you are right.  Apple didn’t even make mention of series 10th birthday a couple of years ago. Happy to believe that nothing would ever be done to it.  They were content to let it languish.  ChatGPT et al have forced Apples hand now. I’m glad of it.

Much as I would love to have Siri be as competent as Jarvis in being my virtual assistant, I’d rather be able to ask Siri first instead of having the automation anticipate my needs. In no way, would I ever let automation control the door to my home, or control a heating device in my home. If I tell Siri to turn the heat on, that’s one thing, for it to just assume that I want it turned on because the temperature drops below 65° at my house is another. I am an elderly lady, so having these devices carry out my needs is very attractive, and I have smart plugs to get Siri to tell them to do that, but I definitely, don’t want to do it on an anticipatory basis. 

I’m hoping that the fact that the WWDC announcement is in siri’s own colors means that Siri will be the heaviest feature of AI at the conference.

My dilemma is, will my M2 iPad Pro be enough to completely take part in apples AI  ventures or will the M3 be required?  I  know technology keeps needing newer devices but I had hoped M2 would keep me future proofed for at least 3 years…

no, it’s not subtle. The announcement is in Siri’s own colors.