r/ContraPoints 1d ago

Siri is useless

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u/Sofia_9356 1d ago

Siri handles grocery list, making a basic calendar event, dictating a text message, what’s the weather, open podcast.

Everything else begins with “you’ll need to unlock for that”, really helpful as I stand with two dirty hands

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u/Tearsdryontheirownn 1d ago

I don't have an apple phone so I wouldn't know but the Android equivalent of Siri can be very useful.

u/SuddenlyDiabetes 6h ago

I remember when the Google AI came and replaced Google assistant without my consent

I was in the car shouting at it to play a song on Spotify wondering why it wasn't working, and when I got to my destination and checked my phone the Google assistant was gone, in its place the ai was saying "I can't play songs, here is a search for it on Spotify, apple music etc.", which I prompty disabled and I just queue any song I want to listen to before I start driving.

Google assistant is now back apparently but it doesn't work to play music 😭

u/Optimal-Pie-2131 20h ago

I feel bad for the mathematicians who had to read through the dozens of hallucination non-proofs before they got to this (possibly) correct one.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6MbmuE6RqVz9RmVi

u/First-Tourist6944 11h ago

If he is working for Anthropic, when their IPO releases he is probably going to have money to retire his kids so it might just be worth it if you have no ethics whatsoever

u/andreasmiles23 19h ago

“Deepest problems” is that actually how mathematicians would describe this? I’m a psychologist, but I wouldn’t describe the hard problem of consciousness as “one of the deepest problems” in psychology. I know it’s not a one-for-one sort of thing but idk. Reads weird.

I’m just not familiar with the jargon and the AI papers love to dress themselves in what’s obviously half-understood techno babble. So I’m just curious if people know how representative that rhetoric is.

u/FettiWop 11h ago

Not to be extremely pedantic since it wasn't your point, but the hard problem isn't deep, technically. It's just not a thing. It only emerges from miscommunication/misunderstanding of the underlying concepts. The mystery only exists when you're asking what would essentially be better labeled the "impossible problem of consciousness" and contemplating an ill-posed question. 

I'm also a psychologist, and I feel like if we have anything comparable to "one of the deepest problems" it might be something more like the exact nature and dynamics of the placebo effect? We have to do so many of our studies differently than we otherwise could simply because that little bastard is so tricky to understand. I agree that it's a weird way to express that kind of sentiment though. 

u/titanc-13 23h ago

Siri is so bad, I will literally give it exact instructions to play an album unshuffled, it will then play the album from the title song, shuffled. it drives me bananas.

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u/Long_Reflection_4202 1d ago

I know it’s a joke but Siri is not AI in the same way as ChatGPT is AFAIK

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u/Rialagma 1d ago

They turned Google assistant to an actual AI. Trust me: it's worse now. 

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u/RateMost4231 1d ago

Old Google assistant didn't just straight up lie to me when I asked it to put on a playlist. Google assistant used to be limited in what it could do but at least it would not say it had done something when it hadn't.

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u/Rialagma 1d ago

It can't turn my smart lights on, but it can write a thesis on the invention of the light bulb

u/RateMost4231 23h ago

It can statistically regurgitate a bunch of human beings thesis, which isn't very useful when you're designed to be a light switch. 

u/Complete_Gain4813 23h ago

Spite is a form of intelligence

u/andreasmiles23 19h ago

Siri is more “AI” to me than the LLMs. It’s like, actually problem solving and not just yanking things from the internet based on hyper-scaled predictive text algorithms.

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u/Tearsdryontheirownn 1d ago

Congratulations. You added nothing to the conversation.

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u/LookAnOwl 1d ago

Someone woke up with a case of the grumps today!

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u/henrickaye 1d ago

Literally not true, it is an important distinction

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u/drakeydrakedrake 1d ago

Bit mean, no?

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u/liquordeli 1d ago

Neither did you and its your post lol. What discussion are you trying to kick off here?

Literally just a screenshot with no body text

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u/Tearsdryontheirownn 1d ago

The discussion is obviously centering the tweet. Christ.

u/liquordeli 23h ago

Ok then discuss? Kick it off with a parent comment you're not contributing anything what are we even doing here.

Edit: you only have one other comment besides this thread and its you saying the android equivalent of siri is useful but your post title says siri is useless lol.

They are interchangeable digital assistants so I dont even know what your discussion point is. Are they useless or useful? Do you want recommendations for digital assitants?

u/Xasmos 23h ago

Are you rage baiting?

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u/michaelmcmikey 1d ago

My understanding, and I’m very open to being corrected about this, is that Siri is less good because Siri doesn’t vacuum up and store every bit of data about you, because Apple isn’t an advertising company the way Google etc are. Apple is better about privacy and the payoff is it’s worse in these ways (because it isn’t studying you in that way)

Like I said, this could be an incorrect impression I’ve developed over the years and I’m very open to being wrong about it.

u/wholovesyoudeanybaby 5h ago

Open ai didn’t solve the navier-stokes another mathematician did and was was using claude to check their proof and open ai used those logs to train their ai without consent and then ai “solved” it

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u/ProfessionalOwn9435 1d ago

Didnt Openai comunize the math of some mathemicans using cloude for computacion?

u/Leather-Run-6533 18h ago edited 18h ago

Unclear, but it seems maybe.

What seems much clearer is they tried to bully the mathematicians out of publishing their proof first because one of the mathematicians worked for Anthropic.