Title: Apple Catching Up With Siri AI, Agentic Challenge Ahead
Content: While it is great that Siri AI can finally deliver Apple’s promise of an actually useful, personal assistant for the age of AI, expectations surrounding agentic assistants are quickly shifting. But Apple is showing it might not watch from the sidelines again.
Siri AI is great, but it’s also very 2024. Now that Siri AI (which is still officially designated as a beta) has been out for a little more than a month, it seems fair to say that its two defining characteristics are that it’s finally useful, but it can be painfully slow to answer even simple queries. The author found themselves increasingly relying on Siri AI for questions like “What was the contact information for that plumber who fixed the kitchen sink leak a couple of years ago?” or “What was the name of that PR person who introduced me to so-and-so?” For the first time in 15 years, they can ask these questions without already expecting Siri to fail halfway through asking them.
That’s all well and good. The problem is that Apple has only now caught up with what AI assistants could do in 2024. Particularly over the past few months, the frontier AI market has increasingly shifted toward agentic assistants, with products from Open AI, Anthropic, Meta, and x AI moving beyond answering questions to actually carrying out tasks on users’ behalf. The author subscribes to Chat GPT, and has been using Codex and Chat GPT Work extensively for everyday tasks involving files and information scattered across their Mac and various cloud services.
FAQ Q: What is the next AI challenge for Apple’s Siri?
FAQ A: Apple’s next AI challenge is building an agent harness for Siri so it can carry out tasks on users’ behalf rather than just answering questions.
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