David Pierce

And it's like, that was...

Which, I don't know, maybe that's healthier for all of us.

If we're like, ah, this thing's kind of stupid.

Like, that's what we need out of our AI assistants this year.

I'm now just imagining the, like, it's the voice reading the side effects in every medication ad in history.

It would be perfect.

It's very good.

Theory will destroy those jobs.

That is what we need.

Yeah, it absolutely will.

I do love the idea that you can customize it, actually.

We just had a commenter saying that they prefer that their robot voices sound like robots.

I fully agree with that.

I want my robot voices to either sound like a robot or like a 1920s newscaster with that like mid-Atlantic accent and the sort of crackly staticky, like give me one of those telling me what's going on all the time and we're up to something.

Just very gently telling you when to turn left.

The one other thing I want to talk about, and we should pivot off of AI because there's other stuff to talk about here, but this idea of...

sort of Siri app intents and spotlight search and the idea that you can like pull everything into the AI strikes me as the place Apple actually has a shot at doing something meaningfully different than what anybody else can do, right?

You have like...

Endless competition in terms of what thing can I ask questions to?

And I think a lot of people already have habit built there.