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Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber | John Gruber's Daring Fireball, Jan '25 -- Siri gets 15 Super Bowl winners wrong in a row; Apple's ChatGPT integration shockingly neutered (daringfireball.net)

submitted 2 days ago by parody to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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& Kagi (search company w/controversial CEO) sounds like they're doing something right

Excerpt:

...Paul Kafasis...took it and pursued it thoroughly, asking Siri “Who won Super Bowl __?” for every number from 1 through 60.

His report at One Foot Tsunami documenting the results is utterly damning:

So, how did Siri do? With the absolute most charitable interpretation, Siri correctly provided the winner of just 20 of the 58 Super Bowls that have been played. That’s an absolutely abysmal 34% completion percentage. If Siri were a quarterback, it would be drummed out of the NFL.

Siri did once manage to get four years in a row correct (Super Bowls IX through XII), but only if we give it credit for providing the right answer for the wrong reason. More realistically, it thrice correctly answered three in a row (Super Bowls V through VII, XXXV through XXVII, and LVII through LIX). At its worst, it got an amazing 15 in a row wrong (Super Bowls XVII through XXXII). Most amusingly, it credited the Philadelphia Eagles with an astonishing 33 Super Bowl wins they haven’t earned, to go with the 1 they have.

Below, I’ve gathered a dozen of my favorite responses, in sequential order.

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[+] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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[–] parody 1 points 1 day ago

Oh you love it come onnnn

Hey don’t click[*]

Tim wants u2 suffer so don’t let him fool you with his songs of innocence

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Hope some Lemming/you finds this useful someday since Apple doesn’t shout much about Shortcuts

Noting: review actions before running, always for safety of course and in this case to set the light

And nvm if I misunderstood requirement 😉

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why not just rename the device to bedroom lights?

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 day ago

Not OP, but this is a principle thing. We should not have to change our behavior to make the computers work for us. They are unthinking, unfeeling tools, despite anyone's claims around "AI". They change for us.

That runs into a problem of tech literacy, though. If the companies running the tech we use don't have incentive to make it work better, you have to know how to do it yourself and that's generally not trivial. If I were OP, I'd look into self-hosted home automation. There's some overhead and tinkering required, but the customization and privacy gains are likely worth it.

Side note. Anyone have any knowledge of a Google Home Mini repurpose? I'm more of a software guy, and have no clue if or how I can make the hardware mine. I've been slowly removing my reliance on google products lately. I use it mostly as a speaker, though, so worst case is it ends up as e-waste.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I only use siri to start timers while cooking, do quick math and conversions, and to text my wife that I’m on my way home while driving.

[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah same here. I’m not sure if I’d use Siri more if it were better, but to be honest I don’t really need all these ChatGPT stuff. Just make Siri better at the basic stuff it can already do.

[–] connaisseur@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

That‘s about the only things it can do accident free indeed.

[–] Paul_Harts@mastodon.nl 2 points 1 day ago

@parody you’re the lucky one because you use Siri in English, I guess. And then the results are deplorable. But, if you use Siri in other languages, say German (spoken by 130 million people) or Dutch (spoken by 25 million people) the results are totally useless or -even worse - completely wrong.

If it wouldn’t be Apple, the efforts would be endearing. But it’s about Apple, so it’s annoying and to the level of totally unbelievable that they messed up so badly.