Apple could have done something like bedrock and used a SOTA model but instead they are fiddling with local models or whatever.

Also I have seen that Apple has some strange lust towards image generation as if that's what people really want. I have this slop image generation thing on my phone and it is useless.

Here's what I want: natural language interaction to achieve complex workflows in iPhone. Example: find the cheapest way to go from A to B and book it using the Deutsche Bahn Train app.

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henry2023 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Local Gemini is a light year ahead of whatever Siri is so this is a big improvement already.

If they don’t like this in the future they can just change to the less convenient, less secure, and likely more expensive bedrock + SOTA.

	▲	simianwords 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't disagree that local Gemini is better but if you've tried it in iPhone, it is slow, hallucinates and overheats the phone. For anything slightly non-trivial like the workflow example I gave, I think it will be close to useless.

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4ffas 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	AnimalMuppet 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is coming very close to a personal attack, which is against the site rules. Even if it's a bad take, call out what's wrong with the take, rather than attack the author.