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It's not just that Siri is "bad": the issue is that as people get used to basic LLM features, it increasingly feels like a product from 10 years ago.

Comparison of asking Siri to find the contents of a note Vs. Notion AI.

The 'Use Model' action in Shortcuts is a stopgap for power users, not something that most people can approach. Their Foundation models also feel like models from 2/3 years ago.

Apple needs to throw away Siri and replace it with an LLM with App Intents tool-calling ASAP.

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Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™3d ago

@viticci alternatively, I will stick to my iPhone 6s which has NO “ai” and has a Siri that does what I tell it to when I tell it to do it without destroying the environment and ravaging the open web. thank you very much. /neg

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FRANK.MCCONNEL

@GroupNebula563 I regret to tell you this may not help. TIme was I used to be able to say "Hey Siri, play This Kind Of Music" and get the Jonathan Richman track of that name which was in my in-phone music library. Later on newer phone I noticed it didn't work the same way, it just shuffle played my in-phone library. And indeed this change had also been made to Siri (via back-end service) on old phone too.