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Greze: Apple's new Siri will lag Town and GrokBot by nine months in capability
“But I think it's going to be good, but it's going to feel not nearly as powerful as Town or GrokBot. Like it's not even going to be there in terms of its capabilities, but it'll be on your phone. It'll be convenient. You'll be able to like enable more data wit…”
Verna: Apple's Siri is "dumb as a doorknob"
“Well listen, Apple still has Siri, and Siri is dumb as a doorknob.”
Traynor: Conversational, action-taking AI will redefine desktop and iOS interaction models
“When Siri can be as conversational as ChatGPT and can take actions on the device, I actually think it'll change like the entire interaction model across desktop and iOS as well in huge ways.”
Douwe Kiela: Apple has failed to produce interesting AI innovations
“So far I haven't really seen a lot of interesting things coming out of Apple.”
Mostaque: Apple's Siri voice assistant is crap
“And so they could surprise us all, but let's face it, Siri's crap, you know?”
Traynor: Action-capable Siri will transform desktop and iOS interaction models
“I think what they'll win is this idea of Siri might finally become useful. Siri is currently not useful because it doesn't really have enough smarts, but I think when Siri can be as conversational as ChatGPT and can take actions on the device, it'll change the…”
Hugo Barra: Lobby 7's technology powered Apple's early Siri assistant
“Our company ran out of money, and we ended up getting, you know, actually hired by a big software company called Nuance, which was actually good because it actually gave us the runway to build and prove that vision that we had, and in the end our tech became t…”
McCall: Pritzker Group invested in next-generation AI assistant Viv
“The other, another deal that we recently did it's coming called Viv, V-I-V. And it's next generation Siri. It's Dag and his team who were the founders of Siri.”
Mignano: Audio consumption will grow dramatically via voice technology
“I absolutely see it increasing. I think what will drive it will be some of the things you just mentioned. Data, you know, increase in data, increase in bandwidth, connectivity of cars, absolutely. I also think, you know, improving the technology and voice reco…”