Last week Ryan Christoffel over at 9to5Mac quoted the latest Mark Gurman report about Apple developing an additional AI personality. Gurman reports that Apple is working on “[…]another human-like interface based on generative AI.” Like Ryan, I am confused by this. For too long, Apple let…
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Hope Springs Eternal for Apple Intelligence
Yesterday, Apple announced its new name for artificial intelligence tools on its platform: Apple Intelligence. If you watched the keynote carefully, it was almost humorous how they danced around the term “artificial intelligence” throughout. At the beginning, Tim made reference to “intelligence” without the…
Continue reading →The Short-Lived Apple Music Voice Plan
This week, we got the news that the $4.99 per month Apple Music Voice Plan has been shuttered. I’m not surprised. When this was announced, it seemed off-brand for Apple. I don’t think many people want a voice-only music system. Combining this with spotty…
Continue reading →Is AI Apple’s Siri Moonshot?
The Information has an article by Wayne Ma reporting Apple is spending “millions of dollars a day” on Artificial Intelligence initiatives. The article is pay-walled, but The Verge summarizes it nicely. Apple has multiple teams working on different AI initiatives throughout the company, including Large Language Models (LLMs),…
Continue reading →Siri Tricks, Part 1 (MacSparky Labs)
I’ve spent too much time complaining about Siri lately. That’s not because Siri doesn’t deserve criticism (it does!) but because my job is to help you get the most out of this stuff, even when the underlying tech could be better…This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
Apple is Staffing Up Siri
There’s a lot of news lately about Apple staffing up Siri. First we heard that they are adding something like 100 additional engineers to the product. Now the New Your Times is reporting Apple hired Google’s former artificial intelligence chief, John Gannandrea to oversee…
Continue reading →Getting the Most from the Siri Watch Face
I have been using the Siri watch face with watchOS 4 as my primary watch face since iOS 11 shipped. Ordinarily, I am not a digital watch face guy. I grew up looking at analog watches and I’ve been primarily using those on the…
Continue reading →Siri Today and in the Future
Yesterday Wired magazine published an article about the most recent improvements to Siri. Several prominent Apple executives participated including Alex Acero, the Siri lead, and Greg Joswiak. The focus of the article was the improvement to Siri’s voice with IOS 11. Having used the…
Continue reading →The Siri Complaint Department
alt Mossberg wrote an article over at Recode, Why does Siri seem so Dumb?. In it Walt points out several failings. “It seems to me that Apple has wasted its lead with Siri. And now Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and others are on the…
Continue reading →“Hello Computer”
In our recent Mac Power Users episode on macOS Sierra, both Katie and I bemoaned the fact that you can’t verbally trigger Siri on the Mac. It seems a no brainer to me as someone with an iMac on my desk sitting there waiting…
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