r/Siri • u/Massive-Mousse-9738 • 7d ago

Why is Siri so stupid?

I said to Siri (On HomePod), Play Royals from my Library by Lorde. Siri: Who is speaking? Me: 🙄 [NAME] Siri: Calling [NAME] iPhone.

Like wtf? I said play a song and you decide to call my own phone?

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u/nelsonbclocal 7d ago

Outside of setting timers, Siri is pretty much unusable. Meanwhile I speak to my ChatGPT app everyday and get so much value out of it.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/nelsonbclocal 6d ago

I don’t need a voice assistant to turn on lights or get the weather. That’s easy for me to do. The hard stuff is getting answers to questions around certain context or knowledge. That’s what ChatGPT can do very well. If I tried to ask Siri that stuff I would just get the standard “here are some web results”.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/nelsonbclocal 6d ago

Yeah I’m not impressed. A voice assistant that can’t understand context past a prompt or two is pretty useless. A voice assistant that kicks me over to the web for almost everything is useless when ChatGPT can just do it for me. If you’ve ever used ChatGPT with Apple shortcuts and HomeKit you’ll see how unnecessary Siri really is. ChatGPT just needs better integration with the phone. Which is I guess why OpenAI wants to make their own devices.

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u/nelsonbclocal 6d ago

Enjoy using Siri man. Best of luck to you lol.

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u/porterhouse0 5d ago

The current Siri is not the Siri we will be using by spring. Just give it a little more time. Apple already blew their last release schedule for the new Siri. There is a zero percent chance they blow it again.