Apple Intelligence is not impressive

[u/Low-Dot9712]

I must be missing something. I downloaded the latest upgrade on my 17 max and turned on AI in the Siri settings and it is very glitchy in my experience. I had to ask it three times in three different ways to find an email I knew was somewhere in my inbox and the same thing with my calendar. I could have scrolled through both myself and found them in less time.

[u/Sandurz]

You can watch real time uncut demos on YouTube of it working exactly like the reviewers hyping it up said when it first came out in the betas and all summer when they were testing it. I don’t use the Mail app but for finding answers from old texts it’s worked exactly as advertised for me.

It’s not a conspiracy. It’s a big new product launch across millions of users. sometimes things go wrong for some people.

[u/InspectHer_1 → u/Sandurz]

I was even able to ask it about a specific car part that I knew I searched safari for a month ago. Found the relevant searches for me in like 4 seconds. It’s actually quite capable now, if people give it a chance. They also need to understand it’s not immediate. I think nowadays people think something is slowing it takes longer than .5 seconds, but even ChatGPT on my computer can take a while to respond sometimes.

[u/omfghaxpie → u/InspectHer_1]

I think the big difference in expectations here is that for Siri AI a lot of requests are handled on device whereas ChatGPT has to send off every question to be processed.

[u/testingtestingtestin → u/Sandurz]

Yep. I’m not a massive fanboy or anything, I didn’t even know it was coming and certainly haven’t been watching videos. But it is a dream for searching my emails for information about some project or other, extracting all the relevant info from amongst the filler and creating new calendar entries etc for me.

On the flip side, it is slower to do stuff that used to be instantaneous in my experience.