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Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation really is (www.theverge.com)

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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Apple has withdrawn related advertisements and added disclaimers on its website, citing extended development times.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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Some people bought scam pins/portable assistant that is actually a butchered phone thing, so, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Tech bros and "influencers" don't count. We're talking about real people. All of those devices failed because no one other than those seeking to ride the bleeding edge of technology actually are interested. The most anyone want Siri or Google Assistant to do is set alarms, set appointments, and pick-up/hang-up the phone when you're on speaker. Sometimes it's nice to ask it to do a search but the original versions of these did that fine until they started "improving" them with "AI".