Should Apple let us choose our own AI chatbot to replace Siri?

The embarrassment over the state of Siri continues, with the discovery that the ‘intelligent’ assistant doesn’t even know what month it is. My colleague Zac Hall suggested that things are now so bad the Siri brand is irredeemably tarnished, and any new version should be given a completely new name – but some think Apple should go further than this, and let us replace Siri with our own choice of AI chatbot … Siri has been an embarrassment for a decade Siri’s lack of progress has been the source of complaints for a decade now. I could go on (and on and on), but you get the idea. But things have recently gone critical Those criticisms greatly increased when ChatGPT and other generative AI models demonstrated the huge gap between their own capabilities and those of Apple’s elderly voice assistant. I’ve been doing my best to be fair to the company, acknowledging that Apple’s high privacy standards do pose a much bigger challenge for Siri, but reports that the relaunch has again been ... Read full article.