Hey Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI
Key takeaways
- Apple revealed a slew of new information at Monday s WWDC keynote about these long-awaited, AI-powered updates that can take advantage of the fact that our hardware is supposedly built for Apple Intelligence.
- To be honest, it s hard for AI to impress me enough that I ll use it in my day-to-day life.
- To paraphrase Katy Perry, it feels so wrong (what are the privacy implications?), but it also feels so right (I am so overwhelmed by my phone and am begging for help parsing it all).
Two years and a $250 million lawsuit later, Apple s AI Siri revamp is on its way to your phones and laptops and even your mixed reality headset, if you happen to be one of like three people who actually uses the Apple Vision Pro. Apple revealed a slew of new information at Monday s WWDC keynote about these long-awaited, AI-powered updates that can take advantage of the fact that our hardware is supposedly built for Apple Intelligence.
To be honest, it s hard for AI to impress me enough that I ll use it in my day-to-day life. I still don t trust LLMs to provide consistently accurate information, I find it ethically untenable (and uncool) to use AI to help me write, and I don t feel the insatiable urge to know what I would look like as a Studio Ghibli character. But every once in a while, the promise of AI tempts me.
That s how I felt watching Apple s Siri AI demos, which depict a world where your phone comes with an always-on, constantly-working assistant who knows everything about you and can help you keep track of all of the conversations happening on like twelve different apps on your phone at any given moment.