It’s time to kill Siri

However, it is appropriate to say that Alexa of Apple and Amazon has a cultural cachet that Google assistant never enjoyed. It was not uncommon to hear the names of Siri or Alexa in the film or TV shows; They were much more recognizable than Google’s generic-name Voice Assistant. It may be that Amazon decided to keep Alexa branding and simply add a “+” icon, which is meant to reproduce the new soup-up version of Alexa operated by the latest large language model-and perhaps why Apple is still hanging on the Siri.

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All this can be alright if Apple actually reached his promise and released a work, then it was much better when it was stated. To put apple intelligence information in everyone’s mind with a large -scale marketing push (Perhaps a regrettable step), This would be a great opportunity to woo users with a much better Siri. Months later, customers wonder why Siri -New Look and All – -Still Stay behind.

But the broad problem affecting all large language models is not only branding, but a user interface. Harrison shifts it to command-line computing days and graphical user interfaces (GUI) in the 80s and 90s. It was not the graphics that made the latter more popular, but search and searchable interfaces. In the command-line era, you had to remember how to do anything. With the GUI, you can place anyone in front of the computer, and they will be able to find out how to navigate the operating system.

If you place someone in front of the chatter or Gemini, say that it is an incredible tool, and ask them to ask anything, they will just stare empty on the Blinking Prompt. “It is as if we have gone back 30 years in the interface design. They don’t know what to do or what to say.” Harrison says he did this accurate experiment with his parents: He asked what the weather was yesterday, and AI replied that he did not have this information.

“We have achieved again in search,” they say. “A regular person, not tech people, if whatever they are doing, he has been setting a timer with Siri for the last 10 years, and now they have to think about it in a fundamentally different way – this is a very difficult problem. Some types of changing the application are going to be important.”

Saying goodbye to Siri would be a big step for Apple – finally, it has spent more that investing in a decade. But most people still use it to play music, check weather and set the timer, and its current, relatively limited, are not even advancing the boundaries of abilities. It is difficult to see that soon changing anytime, even if the feature-pack of Siri has been promised the next generation.

“For 99 percent of the planet, such an AI revolution is completely Gone on their head“Says Harrison. Like a 10 -year infection for graphical user interface from the command line, the way we use these personal voice assistants, it will take time and education time, but perhaps a new name will help the apple with an infection.