John Siracusa

those voice assistants that everyone else is doing don't get much, much better. Now, obviously they're already better than Siri, but like there's this breaking point. Like there's, you know, how much better is one cell phone than another? The iPhone was across that breaking point of like, this isn't just a little bit better than your Nokia candy bar phone. This is a whole different thing.

those voice assistants that everyone else is doing don't get much, much better. Now, obviously they're already better than Siri, but like there's this breaking point. Like there's, you know, how much better is one cell phone than another? The iPhone was across that breaking point of like, this isn't just a little bit better than your Nokia candy bar phone. This is a whole different thing.

Arguably, we're kind of already there with voice assistants, but maybe not because the whole LLM's reliability problem. But anyway, if someone figures this out, yeah, it's good for Apple to be in the game. They're trying to get in the game. I think they are serious about it.

Arguably, we're kind of already there with voice assistants, but maybe not because the whole LLM's reliability problem. But anyway, if someone figures this out, yeah, it's good for Apple to be in the game. They're trying to get in the game. I think they are serious about it.

I think they're spending a lot of time and money to the detriment of all the other things they could be doing to try to put Apple intelligence everywhere, to try to get better at it. But...

I think they're spending a lot of time and money to the detriment of all the other things they could be doing to try to put Apple intelligence everywhere, to try to get better at it. But...

i'm not i'm not optimistic because i you know like i'm pessimistic not because i think they're not putting in the effort i'm pessimistic because it doesn't seem like a thing like you said that they've historically been good at and so no matter how much effort they put in it's like well you can be really serious about this and put a lot of effort into it but if you are not able to acquire those skills will you ever be fruitful but yeah we'll see how this goes like there's and

i'm not i'm not optimistic because i you know like i'm pessimistic not because i think they're not putting in the effort i'm pessimistic because it doesn't seem like a thing like you said that they've historically been good at and so no matter how much effort they put in it's like well you can be really serious about this and put a lot of effort into it but if you are not able to acquire those skills will you ever be fruitful but yeah we'll see how this goes like there's and

I totally think they're doing the right thing. It is a potential threat, and you shouldn't wait for it to be a life-threatening thing before you get serious about it. You can't afford to wait, which is why everybody is scrambling to do AI everything, because they're like, well, it might be huge. Look how much it's advanced in the past two years, so we better gather it on this ASAP.

I totally think they're doing the right thing. It is a potential threat, and you shouldn't wait for it to be a life-threatening thing before you get serious about it. You can't afford to wait, which is why everybody is scrambling to do AI everything, because they're like, well, it might be huge. Look how much it's advanced in the past two years, so we better gather it on this ASAP.

But right now...

But right now...

isn't but it might be so we better so we better do everything that we can and it's kind of uh sad seeing apple flail with apple intelligence because it's like they're trying to do stuff but what they're producing is like i don't know it's not compelling like they did the partnership with chat gbt to say like we don't have that we're not going to have that we'll partner with them and somehow they found a way to screw that up like uh with gruber story where

isn't but it might be so we better so we better do everything that we can and it's kind of uh sad seeing apple flail with apple intelligence because it's like they're trying to do stuff but what they're producing is like i don't know it's not compelling like they did the partnership with chat gbt to say like we don't have that we're not going to have that we'll partner with them and somehow they found a way to screw that up like uh with gruber story where

They're trying to ask when the Super Bowls are. And when Apple asks ChatGPT, it still gets the wrong answer. But if you ask ChatGPT directly, it gets the right answer. So they've somehow partnered with ChatGPT and made it less functional. Is that the Apple touch? I don't know.

They're trying to ask when the Super Bowls are. And when Apple asks ChatGPT, it still gets the wrong answer. But if you ask ChatGPT directly, it gets the right answer. So they've somehow partnered with ChatGPT and made it less functional. Is that the Apple touch? I don't know.

Or they have enough other advantages that they can make up for it.

Or they have enough other advantages that they can make up for it.

What if OpenAI pays them $20 billion a year to make? OpenAI, the default voice assistant on Apple. You know, Apple's forced to open the voice assistant thing to third parties because of the EU. And then OpenAI doesn't have its own platform. Like, again, I think Apple just loves the fact that people care what's number one in the App Store still. Like, that's the magic of the App Store.

What if OpenAI pays them $20 billion a year to make? OpenAI, the default voice assistant on Apple. You know, Apple's forced to open the voice assistant thing to third parties because of the EU. And then OpenAI doesn't have its own platform. Like, again, I think Apple just loves the fact that people care what's number one in the App Store still. Like, that's the magic of the App Store.