Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says

Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by inferiorhuman on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:05AM (#35737996)

The problem I've had with Siri and music has nothing* to do with parsing individual words. What I've found recently is that if you don't give an exact match Apple just puts in random shit. Hey Siri play the album Rubber Soul by the Beatles on Apple Music gets me random songs by the Beatles because apparently I have Rubber Soul named "Rubber Soul [some edition info]". Hey Siri play songs by the band Duran Duran literally just plays the eponymous album because reasons. You don't need AI, machine learning, GPT, LLM, or whatever fucking buzzword is all the rage, you simply need to revert to behavior that was standard in iOS 15 and earlier. The upgrade to iOS 16 completely nerfed Siri on my phone, starting with some mandatory trial subscription bullshit.

It's to the point where I've given up trying to use Siri while driving.

* Almost nothing. I still have to say "play underground eight zero s on soma fm" because reasons.

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by khazhoux on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:12AM (#35738033)

It's one of those products that makes me think: "Do the eng directors in charge of it even use this thing??"

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by cubefox on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:07AM (#35739407)

Yeah, some others also had the impression that it got worse over time in some aspects. I wonder whether this was some kind of tradeoff with other abilities. Or perhaps they rewrote the code, which had unintended side effects.

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