14 years later, Siri is again the key to Apple's future (macworld.com)

I usually read articles like this, however I could not.

I use an iPhone 14 Pro Max and plan to upgrade soon. When I do, it won't be because of of AI or Siri. It will be because of my battery slowly dying and me wanting a better camera.

I read a report recently that AI subscriptions have paid out around $20 billion or something, where-as investment far exceeded that. I am still waiting on someone to tell me we aren't in a bubble based on that info.

First “machine learning” made Siri way worse, and AI now hasn’t helped at all.

Back when it first came out it was a bad command line over voice with no documentation, but you could at least learn some repeatable commands.

Now it’s always a crapshoot that somewhat kinda sometimes maybe works.

It seems to me like they need to massively improve Homekit adoption first into far more different types of devices. That's when Siri becomes useful to me personally.

I want to at least be able to say "Hey Siri, I'm heading home now", and my heating turns on so it's warm when I get back, my lights turn on 2 minutes before I arrive, any robot cleaning to have finished, oven turns on 5 minutes before I arrive so it's ready to have something thrown in it, my indoor plants are automatically watered so they don't die etc. etc.

Or how about "By the way, it's your best friend's daughter's 18th birthday in 10 days time, would you like me to find some options?"

Start with removing chores and friction from my life. If I had a human personal assistant that's what they'd be doing.