Siri is a really bad product when compared to GPT. Why has it taken Apple so long to get AI right?
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al_borland · 23m ago
People expect Siri to have deep integration and knowledge of their data, not just a generic LLM. People will also hold Apple and Siri to a higher standard to actually be correct, watch is another thing LLMs don’t care about.
They could have rushed something out, but it would fall short in these areas. I’d rather than take their time and get it right. If people want a generic LLM that hallucinates a lot, there are plenty of apps for that.
PaulHoule · 2h ago
Siri has access to all your personal data and has to be right. If you're going to ask it when you need to be at the airport for your flight and it say 7pm and it's really 7am you are really screwed. If you're asking Copilot for an opinion about your not-so-hot take on Curtis Yarvin
Do you regularly use chatGPT as a voice assistant?
Like, I kind of wonder what else I might want SIRI to do that isn’t hard. I would like it to occasionally summarize facts like who was the president of France in 1975, and I might use it for that, but I wonder… does Apple make any money if they add that feature? Do they _want_ people using Siri? Yes, it is actually a valuable feature for me to be able to get directions while driving or play a song while cooking. Everything else has a weird cost-benefit ratio to Apple I imagine. The things that make you think the iPhone is substantively more valuable because Siri can do them are hard.
It probably comes down to the fact that Apple likes to make money, and OpenAI isn’t quite as concerned.
They could have rushed something out, but it would fall short in these areas. I’d rather than take their time and get it right. If people want a generic LLM that hallucinates a lot, there are plenty of apps for that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980305
it doesn't really matter if it makes a mistake of that magnitude.
Google shares rise on report of Apple using Gemini for Siri
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/google-shares-rise-on-report... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994585)
Like, I kind of wonder what else I might want SIRI to do that isn’t hard. I would like it to occasionally summarize facts like who was the president of France in 1975, and I might use it for that, but I wonder… does Apple make any money if they add that feature? Do they _want_ people using Siri? Yes, it is actually a valuable feature for me to be able to get directions while driving or play a song while cooking. Everything else has a weird cost-benefit ratio to Apple I imagine. The things that make you think the iPhone is substantively more valuable because Siri can do them are hard.
It probably comes down to the fact that Apple likes to make money, and OpenAI isn’t quite as concerned.