It’s not unreasonable

Amazon already reworked Alexa to be backed by a LLM months ago, and they were delayed doing it.

You’re telling me that Apple isn’t capable of the same to Siri?

The unreasonable part is acting like Siri got its big LLM update, when they know it didn’t. Just like it would be unreasonable to expect any famously delayed, or unannounced, feature to magically start happening.

Amazon just needs a generic LLM. Apple, from the sound of it, is trying to create deep integration with the OS and on-device data. That’s a different problem to solve. They also seem to be trying to do it while respecting user privacy, which is someone most other companies ignore.

I don’t see what the big deal is. I’d rather wait for something good than have them rush out a half-ass “me too” chatbot, that is indistinguishable from the dozens of other chatbots I can simply download as an app for that.

If we believe what Craig Federighi said, they had something, it just wasn’t up to their standards when talking about rolling it out to a billion devices. Which is fair, I run into bad data from ChatGPT and other LLMs all the time. Letting it mature a little more is not a bad thing.

ChatGPT spent a couple months getting my dad pumped up for an elective open heart surgery; he was almost arrogant going into it about how the recovery would go, thinking ChatGPT gave him all the info he could possibly need and a balanced view of reality. Reality hit him pretty hard in the ICU. He sent me some of the chats he had, it was a lot of mutual ego stroking. He was using ChatGPT to downplay the negatives from the doctors and boosting the positives. While it’s good to feel confident, I think it went too far. I spent the whole week in the hospital trying to pull him out of his depression and recalibrating the unrealistic expectations that ChatGPT reinforced. I hope Apple finds a way to be more responsible. If that takes time, great.