When is siri gonna be powerful enough ....

whitecrook · 9 Dec 2011 at 00:00

...to listen to your phone calls and make the needed arrangements - i.e. when phoning for a dentist appointment, at the end of the call you phone has marked it in your calender... that would be pretty neat.
or make an archive of calls to places like call centres/important info you want to remember. Or if someone quotes you an address to meet at it can find it.

whitecrook · 9 Dec 2011 at 21:35

Mattus said:
Quite a long way off, I'd say. Interpreting a direct command is one thing. Inferring information from the context or a conversation is another.

Imagine a conversation like:

"Hi mate, still up for meeting on Thursday?"
"Sure am! By the way, how's your wife?"
"She's good. She had a meeting with her boss on Tuesday... all the stuff which happened on Monday has been cleaned up, so it looks like we will be able to go away on Saturday after all."
"Good news, mate. So - meet at four o'clock at that place we went before?"
"See you then!"

A human being could easily figure out that the meeting is at 4pm on Thursday. But a computer is really going to struggle to filter out the relevant information from the irrelevant, because conversations don't usually follow predictable patterns.

Good answer , but that time will come. Siri is just the start of this.

whitecrook · Friday at 23:49

14 years later, will Apple Intelligence (TM) bring us anywhere nearer. I certainly couldn't imagine the state of the LLM ai bots today back in 2011

whitecrook · 2025-03-10T02:27:41+0000

adidan said:
What OP wants us a free PA.

Not sure when that will be possible.

Google already demonstrated this a year ago

whitecrook · 2025-03-10T17:13:16+0000

Apple has call recording and transcription, so the building blocks are there for this stuff, seems very slow though.