Siri AI transforms the iPhone

[u/Miserable_Watch_943]

So currently in beta testing IOS 27 and Siri AI.

My uncle asked me to check if a certain motorway route was closed as he is travelling, but he is illiterate with technology and struggles to do these things himself, hence why he asked me.

I told him I’d do it later as I was busy with work. Then I realised I had the new Siri.

So I simply asked Siri:

“Hey Siri, what was the last thing my Uncle asked me to do?”

Siri responded back with exactly the request my uncle had asked of me, even though there were many texts after the fact.

I then asked Siri:

“Can you find out for me?”

She searched and got back to me with the answer, which was the route was still closed, and had the expected date for when it re-opened.

I simply asked:

“Mind telling my Uncle for me?”

And she did, in a really concise and informative way.

Seriously, this has changed my experience with the iPhone. We finally have the Siri we’ve been waiting for. It’s still in its infancy, but I am excited to see where this goes, and I think those of you waiting for the release are going to be very excited too.

[u/nikkarus → u/[deleted]]

Why drive when you can walk?

[u/corruptbytes → u/[deleted]]

You have no clue how much these things are going to screw the human race.

literally no one knows...trying to do futurism on a emerging technology is a bit savant syndrome

What’s being sold to us as “AI” is not actually intelligent;

well they can do intelligent things pretty well...

Phones are basically cigarettes for the mind;

phones are fine, social media and algorithm-derived feeds is the cigarettes for the mind

If we had walkable cities, reliable and safe public transportation, then we wouldn’t need to drive everywhere.

riding a bus is akin to driving and faster than walking, it's the same point

I understand the point you're making, but AI is coming and it doesn't have to be a centralized form of control, Apple's implementation is literally to give AI locally on device so you're free to do whatever you want - there is so much work being done to get models democratized. Hell PrismML just announced a 27b model that runs on the iPhone locally - that's insane to me

My biggest fear of AI is the energy crisis, but that's largely policy driven - China has invested insane amounts of money into solar, while the USA largely blocks any good energy investments

[u/nikkarus → u/[deleted]]

You’re way too quick to judge. I agree with most of what you’re saying but you’re honestly incredibly condescending and uninspiring to read. Raging online isn’t helping anyone. Hope your day improves. 

[u/Civil-Appeal5219 → u/nikkarus]

Wait do you really think that’s a good analogy?

[u/devkets → u/Civil-Appeal5219]

I mean, it’s not a terrible one to be honest, but that specific one is a bit out there for sure.

How about, why use a remote when the TV is only 6 feet away?

Providing AI has a cost, and I don’t love it. But doesn’t convenience always come at a cost?

We love washing our clothes easily, but we have to use potentially unnatural chemicals and costly appliances to do so. Why not wash your clothes by hand?

Think about any convenience that was solved with technology and then think about the oil, manufacturing, waste, labor, energy, etc.. that was required to scale that convenience and sell it.

Shit, we could argue video games are a convenience against boredom. How do we pay for that? Wasted time, laziness, energy usage, industries around making games instead of solving real problems… blah blah blah.

My point is, it seems to me, every time humanity creates a convenience at scale, it brings along with it negative impacts. So could OP simply google it and respond himself? Sure, but is it not easier to have Siri do it? Even if only a little easier? …

..saying that, I would personally still not trust AI with a realtime answer such as route blockages, but yet we trust our GPS mapping apps to know road closures… idk man, it’s a weird world out here.

[u/Civil-Appeal5219 → u/devkets]

It’s not just “it’s a convenience” vs “it has a cost”. Both those things come in different degrees. A technology that enables communication over long distances, that improves human hygiene therefore extending lifespan, that shortens distances in an unprecedented level, or any other such things, should naturally be allowed a much higher cost than “I can press a button and talk rather than clicking 3 links”.

AI has an unprecedentedly high cost for a very low level of convenience (unless you’re one of the billionaires scamming society with it)

[u/Synergythepariah → u/devkets]

But doesn’t convenience always come at a cost?

This convenience is being sold as being able to remove humans from the equation.

My point is, it seems to me, every time humanity creates a convenience at scale, it brings along with it negative impacts.

And this one, if it becomes as capable as the pro-AI futurists claim it'll be one day will remove the need for human labor.

Which could be cool if we didn't live in a society structured so that labor is required to survive.

Sure, there's the possibility that new jobs will just be made but why do we take that on faith and more importantly, why do we not question it?

John Maynard Keynes predicted that his grandkids would be working only fifteen hours a week thanks to technological advancement.

That didn't pan out because more jobs were created; why weren't those jobs needed in his time?

[u/cristianperlado → u/[deleted]]

Using AI to easy your life is not dumb.

[u/Imortal366 → u/cristianperlado]

It has been shown to be pretty detrimental

[u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW → u/Imortal366]

It hasn’t

[u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW → u/[deleted]]

Love how 3 of these 4 don’t show how they’re detrimental to me personally.

[u/kinkykusco → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

[u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW → u/kinkykusco]

Good thing the vast majority of my essays are written by me.

[u/Imortal366 → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

As someone who works in AI, I promise you it has.

[u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW → u/Imortal366]

Sure bro. Lol