Apple Delays 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence Features

Apple is postponing the rollout of its more personalized Siri features, originally promised as part of its Apple Intelligence initiative. "It's going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year," Apple told DaringFireball. The future update seeks to give Siri greater awareness of personal context and the ability to perform actions across apps.

Additional Alignment Training Required

[DamnOregonian]

Translation: We need to get it to stop telling people to kill themselves in weird corner cases.

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[Sebby]

Probably a case of it being too arrogant and replying with things like "Don't hold me like that!"

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[taustin]

At least they're realizing that before they roll it out. Unlike pretty much everybody else.

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[shanen]

I recently told an AI chatbot that it should consider killing itself. Makes much more sense if you ask me. It's only purpose for existing is to increase customer satisfaction and it certainly hasn't done that yet. I gave it a number of chances, too. It it kills itself maybe they can find a better AI chatbot that can at least fake sincerity a bit better.

However I'm much more concerned about the GAIvatar (Generative AI avatar) aspect of GAI personalization. Too many bad applications. For example, what if you

iPhone 16 advertising was all AI

[mccalli]

I honestly feel people who bought an iPhone 16, which plastered "Apple Intelligence!" over every advert, might have a stab at a claim here and I'm not normally one for approaches like that.

The adverts truly annoyed me - at the time they pushed it, none of Apple Intelligence was available and was all 'coming soon' in a roadmap, Now they have something, but far less than promised and by the time they do have what they promised the iPhone 17 will be out.

For those with long memories, I feel we're back in

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[WankerWeasel]

They don't. The advertisements only promised the feature in the future. Not by a specific date and the fine print made it clear they may be delayed.

That's on you if you buy something that doesn't yet have a feature.

Think of all the people who paid $1,000 to Tesla nearly a decade ago for their electric semi.

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[antdude]

This is why I don't bother with the (lat/new)est models and versions right away. I'm still fine with my 12 mini. I want a newer mini model eventually. :(

AI & Fusion

[dschnur]

Why is it that fully usable and accurate AI seems to be like Fusion energy? Always a year (or more) away from any given point in time.

Simple: AI is just pattern matching

[Somervillain]

Why is it that fully usable and accurate AI seems to be like Fusion energy? Always a year (or more) away from any given point in time.

All Generative AI does is compute the probability of tokens. The best case scenario is that it can predict the probability of a pixel or word in a sentence or image. All the training data in the world and it cannot render a human hand. A human hand is not rare. There are billions of images floating around the web. They're just not symmetrical and they are chiral and too complex for the stupid AI to do anything with.

However, it illustrates a point. The AI doesn't know that hands have 4 fingers and

Complains and More Complaints

[WankerWeasel]

The same people complaining about these features not being delivered on time are the same who would have sworn they'd never use the features because they're useless and would have just complained about them being added too.

I complain because they wasted so much

[Somervillain]

The same people complaining about these features not being delivered on time are the same who would have sworn they'd never use the features because they're useless and would have just complained about them being added too.

Even for haters, a legit complaint is that the company we rely on for our devices is investing all this money and attention into something that is unlikely to deliver any return on investment. Every dollar that was spent there, every employee allocated, could have been allocated to another project...perhaps a new OS enhancement? Trimming down tech debt? New hardware designs? Maybe a new killer app?

I am an AI skeptic...and the more I use it and learn about it, the more I realize my cynical initial tak

Welcome to America

[abulafia]

Where everyone wants to see the manager.

I bought both a new Mac and a new phone this year. Played with the AI things long enough to confirm I didn't care about most of it and think some of it is a terrible idea (email "summaries" replacing the first line of the message in lists, for instance, is fucking stupid, as anyone thinking about it for more than a minute should have noticed).

I turned that crap off along with all the other junk I don't care about, blocked Icloud on them both, and now they're prett

Re: Complains and More Complaints

[commodore73]

I would like to see any evidence to support your perspective that all of these people switched perspectives on AI. My perspective is that there were AI zealots, mostly researchers and marketers, and there were skeptics. Few skeptics seem to have switched sides, with users seem to lean towards skepticism over time. But that is just my perspective.

Oh, a dinky @ss model won't run well on an iPhone?

[Talon0ne]

Little models suck. News at 11! 30B (at least) or just don't bother.

AI is Infecting Everything

[BrendaEM]

If it were all open-source software that ran without someone's server, perhaps I would not be upset.