alt Hacker NewsApple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri
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It tells you how bad their product management and engineering team is that they haven’t just decided to kill Siri and start from scratch. Siri is utterly awful and that’s an understatement, for at least half a decade.
Will Apple and Google merge now? That would create a new #1, bigger than NVidia.
It would take US antitrust approval, but under Trump, that's for sale.
Apple picks [ad company's] [ai ad server] to power Siri.
How Apple has made some of the greatest phones in history, amazing engineering, and a lot more, but just can't make a simple model to run locally on the phone when many others did?
Guess I am not using Siri anymore…
By the way, have any of you ever tried to delete and disabled Siri’s iCloud backup? You can’t do it.
Can someone explain to me how this was allowed to happen? Wasn't Siri supposed to be the leading AI agent not ten years ago? How was there such a large disconnect at Apple between what Siri could do and what "real" AI was soon to be capable of?
Was this just a massive oversight at Apple? Were there not AI researchers at Apple sounding the alarm that they were way off with their technology and its capabilities? Wouldn't there be talk within the industry that this form of AI assistant would soon be looked at as useless?
Am I missing something?
i think it's good. Google has a record of being stable and working with large partners (govt etc) and avoids the controversial cult of altman.
Previously only back in June the discussion was barely a mention of Google Gemini, and leaned more towards why weren't they doing it themselves:
Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri
Google release hints at this being more than just Siri:
> Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year.
... https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou...
Steve Jobs rolling in his grave. The mortal enemy. Thermonuclear war.
Why couldn't Apple pull their finger out of their asses and make their own AI nonsense better then Crap GPT?
It's hilarious how Apple can't compete in the space and so many people here are just saying "Smart move by Apple" as if they had another choice at this point. It's not like they haven't tried.