Despite this, Apple was delighted with the possibilities, just like the then-Ceo Steve Jobs. “It was Steve’s last agreement,” said Siri co -founder Tom Gruber. “He was personally involved in all stages of the contract, negotiating the contract and following, making sure that we will be successful at Apple after their purchase.”
However, other Apple directors who were at that time will paint a picture of a very defective digital assistant who was never really ready for work that Apple sold us. Early Siri worked, but only in very constrained functional silos.
“What we purchased was a demo that worked great for several people, but not scale to our user base … For the original implementation of Siri there was a lot of smoke and mirrors,” said former Apple director Richard Williamson Computer History Museum In such a long interview in 2017, this includes changes in costumes.
“This is the concept of AI? It wasn’t AI … It was a hot mess,” said Williamson. “It is very easy to cheat Siri. There is no NLP [natural language processing]There is no contextualization of words. It’s just a matching of keywords. “
But now, even in the case of AI, Siri, apparently, still cannot be relying to act in the face of real exploit. The key question is: why? Chatbot technology may not be fully mature, but it is at least common enough to exploit it every day due to non -cones on competitive platforms.
One disturbing factor: Apple’s approach to these things is probably not similar to standards. You must conveniently transfer a huge amount of data so that Alexa works best, while Altman from OpenAi seems to destroy entire categories of jobs at the altar of progress. But Tim Cook and Apple? Cleaning, a more positive image for decades is part of the company’s appeal, which includes very clear emphasis on privacy.
“There is one good excuse for [Apple] I am waiting, which means if you really have the value of privacy and data management as a sacred law. AND [Apple] He says this kind of words – says Gruber.
“If they really consider this to be the highest priority, they may encounter conflicts of interest. If they send all questions to OpenAI and give them all OpenAI needs, which they could probably do more, but then give up privacy guarantee.”
The emphasis on privacy has also been seen over the years as the reason why Siri never felt as good as, for example, Google assistant. It seemed less intelligent, less naturalistic because it literally knew about you. And regardless of what it was true, it is also part of the source of the problem in this new Siri.
A story about two halves
The upcoming Siri is based on two basic elements. There is a small language model on the iPhone itself, while more complex queries are transferred to OpenAI. You will have to admit the consent of the phone.
It is estimated that AI Apple On-Iphone systems consist of about 3 billion parameters in which some estimates place the number of parameters in the OPENAI GPT-4 at 1.8 trills times more than the number. Deepseek was on the first pages of newspapers as a more proficient Lean AI model at the beginning of 2025, but still contains the reported parameters of 671 billion.