The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build

Re:The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build by nsxwolf on Thursday May 14, 2026 @10:58AM (#48136365)

I never understood why they haven't had a team implementing simple features like that for over a decade. It's not even AI. Have a dashboard of the most commonly tried things every day, and develop the features.

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Re:The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build by sheept on Thursday May 14, 2026 @12:04PM (#48137348)

It's still AI. Natural language processing has long been a branch of AI well before LLMs came out.

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Re:The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build by anhner on Thursday May 14, 2026 @11:00AM (#48136395)

Am i stupid, or did the thing actually used to work 10+ years ago??

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Re:The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build by bombcar on Thursday May 14, 2026 @12:06PM (#48137371)

Yes, before they went "machine learning" all these assistants were much closer to command lines you spoke to - you had to learn the phrases, but they'd work reliably once you did.

Now they basically never work.

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Re:The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build by masfuerte on Thursday May 14, 2026 @01:40PM (#48138612)

I'd love something like this to run at home. Like an open weight model with a configurable command grammar that returns the most likely thing I said that matches the grammar. I've found things that are close but they have bits missing (like support for English) or aren't really open.

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Re:The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build by hedgehog on Thursday May 14, 2026 @11:38AM (#48137026)

I think the ETA thing did work at one point.

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