Siri sucks right now, but I have hope it could improve this year. Here’s some stuff I’d like:
- Text Siri in Messages: Let me text Siri in Messages like I can chat to ChatGPT. It remembers what I asked it about, because it’s a text message conversation. It is an LLM trained from a high-quality data set, and doesn’t give you bullshit answers with made up stuff in it.
- Multiple Actions from Speech: I would like to be able to talk at Siri for a couple of minutes and have it extract out notes and actions from what I wanted – calendar items, to-dos, draft messages, emails, notes. A bit like ChatGPT’s voice mode but tied into the other functions of the phone.
- What’s that thing: I want to be able to take a photo of something and send it to Siri, then it tells me what stuff is. This could be done via Messages too or invoked directly from Siri.
- Productivity: I want Siri to help me schedule stuff, write emails, summarise emails, schedule send messages, I want to be able to invite people to a calendar invite via message. In short, I want easier productivity.
- Privacy and On-Device Processing: As much as possible I want Siri to process my questions on-device. Maybe this needs more powerful AI-focused chips, not sure.
Basically? I kinda want Copilot for Microsoft 365, but for Apple.
https://jamescroft.website/2024/04/29/some-stuff-id-like-to-see-in-new-siri-ios-18/