Hacker News with Generative AI: Siri

Apple Enlists Veteran Software Executive to Help Fix AI (yahoo.com)
Apple Inc. executive Kim Vorrath, a company veteran known for fixing troubled products and bringing major projects to market, has a new job: whipping artificial intelligence and Siri into shape.

Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Siri, Business, Technology

12 points by doener 27 days ago | 4 comments

Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades (theverge.com)
Apple is making an executive change to try and improve its AI efforts and Siri. Kim Vorrath, who recently helped get the Vision Pro software out the door and has been at Apple for 36 years, has been brought over to Apple’s artificial intelligence and machine learning division and will serve as a “top deputy” to AI boss John Giannandrea, Bloomberg reports.

Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Siri, Technology, Leadership

6 points by _fs 28 days ago | 1 comments

Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber (daringfireball.net)
Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably wrong Siri is when asked the simple question, “Who won Super Bowl 13?”, and mentioned that that particular example came from a friend.

Artificial Intelligence, Apple, Siri

76 points by rgovostes 28 days ago | 59 comments

Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber (daringfireball.net)
Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably wrong Siri is when asked the simple question, “Who won Super Bowl 13?”, and mentioned that that particular example came from a friend.

Artificial Intelligence, Apple, Siri, Super Bowl

20 points by tambourine_man 29 days ago | 1 comments

Apple to pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping (apnews.com)
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.

Privacy, Lawsuits, Apple, Siri, Technology

17 points by mentalgear 49 days ago | 6 comments

Apple to pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of snoopy eavesdropping (apnews.com)
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.

Privacy, Lawsuits, Apple, Siri, Technology

21 points by Paddywack 50 days ago | 14 comments

Apple will pay $95M to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (9to5mac.com)
Over five years ago, Apple was hit with a lawsuit over ‘unlawful and intentional recording’ of Siri interactions. Now finally, the case is coming to an end, with Apple agreeing to pay $95 million in a settlement.

Privacy, Lawsuits, Apple, Technology, Siri

30 points by janandonly 50 days ago | 6 comments

Apple will pay $95M to people who were spied on by Siri (theverge.com)
Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees.

Privacy, Lawsuits, Apple, Siri, Voice Assistants

20 points by tanduv 50 days ago | 0 comments

Siri mixes up baby kangaroo with Friends sitcom actor (mastodon.social)

Siri, Voice Assistants, Entertainment, Pop Culture

19 points by latexr 54 days ago | 3 comments

Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2: A Deep Dive into Working with Siri and ChatGPT (macstories.net)
Apple is releasing iOS and iPadOS 18.2 today, and with those software updates, the company is rolling out the second wave of Apple Intelligence features as part of their previously announced roadmap that will culminate with the arrival of deeper integration between Siri and third-party apps next year.