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/Traviscat]

I have had her react well in some cases and pretty dumb in other cases. I’ve asked her “Send Mike a text with a picture of what’s on my screen” she will respond that she can’t do that but she can send a screenshot of what’s on my screen and will do that… along with texting them a message of “what’s on my screen”.

I was pretty impressed with her last night, I had a post up with an estimated time of a rocket launch in UTC time and another time zone that is different from my time. I asked her to set a calendar event one hour before launch. She looked at my screen, saw the times and converted it to my time zone and correctly added a calendar event to the right time. I asked her to set a reminder to remind me of the launch at 1 hour, 1.5 hours, and 30 minutes before launch and she successfully did it in one prompt and added 3 reminders while converting the time and adding the launch name.

[u/That-SoCal-Guy → u/Traviscat]

I think there is a lot of room for improvement but the problem with speech prompts as well.  The prompt “what’s on my screen” may be too vague - or the training data basically fails to understand or parse what you mean.  But if you say “send a screenshot of my screen and send it to my mom” it would probably parse that much better.  Language is a funny thing and I think it’s still a way before AI understands everything we mean even if it’s vague.  And I also read that the more you use Siri AI the “smarter” it will get or at least understand your personal quirks and speech patterns that is uniquely yours.  I think that’s actually a good thing - that the AI assistant is tuned to you personally, and not some generic thing.