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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by BlandDuck on Friday April 28, 2023 @07:12AM (#35739831)
It's unbelievable that Apple hasn't been able to do better.

My 'favorite' Siri 'feature' is when I ask for directions to 'home' it gives me directions to the local Home Depot.... really???

Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by flybrand on Friday April 28, 2023 @07:52AM (#35740151)
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by hashtag-til on Friday April 28, 2023 @08:02AM (#35740243)
Or when it unexpectedly decides to "call" someone when I asked it to play some song while I'm driving.

I'm mindful my English pronunciation is not 100% accurate, but Alexa gives me no problem at all.

Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by wincy on Friday April 28, 2023 @08:27AM (#35740464)
I speak midwestern American English and it’s been constantly trying to text the wrong person, which is weird because a year ago ON THE SAME PHONE this never ever happened. If it’s not working for me it’s definitely a degradation. Siri had worked reliably for me for literally a decade!

I’ve also noticed my autocorrect has gone bonkers. It’s constantly trying to change the case of the word “guess” into “Guess”, the brand I guess? Despite me never ever having shopped or mentioned this. The autocorrect has gotten very aggressive and I type so fast that it’ll take me three or four tries to get it to revert to lower case. It also has some weird context sensitivity to proper nouns they added so if I say “I guess James can come over” it’ll change that to “Guess James” like it’s a name (in iMessage only I suppose) and I have to delete that entire “name” and carefully retype!

Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by Izkata on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:09AM (#35740842)
SwiftKey on Android does the same thing to me to random words, I think it's learning some words should always be capitalized because I once used them at the beginning of a sentence.
Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by nr2x on Friday April 28, 2023 @11:55AM (#35742955)
OMG yes, the latest updates to the keyboard are a nightmare. I went so far as to turn off autocorrect as I’d rather have my spelling wrong but the meaning the same. It straight up makes up entirely new phrases I didn’t type.
Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by lostlogin on Saturday April 29, 2023 @08:25AM (#35752233)
> autocorrect has gone bonkers.

It’s gone feral with punctuation, and things like “they’re” get changed to “there” or “their”. Common misspellings seem to appear when they weren’t typed.

Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by MichaelZuo on Friday April 28, 2023 @08:19AM (#35740407)
It's odd that Siri was better under Eddy Cue, for some reason, even though he is mainly the content guy, then under Craig Federighi or the AI/ML experts like John Giannandrea.
Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by ceejayoz on Friday April 28, 2023 @08:55AM (#35740706)
Every few months, Siri decides I live at 123 East Foo street. Just adds the E when I say “directions to home” and tries to go miles off course. Lasts a week or two, then back to normal.

If I spell or type out the address, it still adds the E, with no apparent way to get to my actual home address.

As a bonus, last night I said “cancel my 6am alarm” and it said “you have 29 alarms around that time”, and proceeded to read through each of them. My wife nearly died laughing as it started to rattle them off.

Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by WanderPanda on Saturday April 29, 2023 @09:55AM (#35752872)
Some people would argue that Siri has alignment issues and that Apples datacenters should ne airstriked now
Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by dpkirchner on Friday April 28, 2023 @12:48PM (#35743856)
Yours picks the local Home Depot? Such luxury! It's not uncommon for Siri to navigate my to the other side of the country, even when I speak the entire address.