Today Apple confirmed Siri routes to Google Cloud, handed us the Liquid Glass slider and took the opt-out the same day, told 15 Pro owners they're now the cloud-dependent tier, and shipped new Siri as a waitlist button.

[jimmylittle@hachyderm.io]

@ppb1701 We knew Siri was going to use Google weeks ago, options are good, sorry your 3 year old phone doesn't run a thing that was popularized 2 years ago, and they didn't "ship" anything because this is a developer conference not a product launch.

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@jimmylittle yeah I posted about it a while back, it was expected to run Google. And yes it's the dev conference. Doesn't mean a chunk of folks wont go run out and download it anyway. I wouldn't recommend it til at least mid way thru beta cycle or more for stability, but some will go for it on their main device. I am annoyed my watch is getting removed from support....but I actually am not that interested in using Apple Intelligence. Not against testing it, but ‍️.

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

@ppb1701 What routs to Google Cloud? Siri AI? Or everything?

[robertphuff@mastodon.world]

@ppb1701 That is about how I am feeling about the announcements so far as well. Not sure that I will jump on the beta train just yet.

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@AAKL simpler requests process on device, slightly more complicated go to apples servers, and the most complicated or demanding head off to google. However, they haven't specified examples of what would go where. Just that's how the new Siri should work. That said, some of that division also depends on your phone as the ones with less onboard memory can't do as much...which is basically regular 17 and below.

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

@ppb1701 As long as you can opt out of this nonesense. The writing was on the wall when Apple started making deals with the other AI companies because its own AI was having problems performing.

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@robertphuff If I do it will be later in the summer/early fall once most of the bugs and performance are more stable. I try to avoid the early betas usually anyway., a couple years ago I jumped in at one and it kept doing a random glitch with texts coming from non iphones while we were working with a realtor. My wife was not that amused I had messeges not showing up or showing up days later for a couple of weeks

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@AAKL oh that's the other question. the extensions for it. How much are they going to be allowed to do? Will it route part thru local and apple servers then to the extensions? Straight to the extensions ai? Partially to extension with something being handled by google anyway that are blocked off but trying to look seamless?

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

@ppb1701 And the answer is that Apple's "AI" right now is a cruel joke, because there isn't one, at least not a functional one. Apple will use all of these other companies' products to improve it.

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@AAKL mostly I think they gave up on having their own ai. Sure they will cover the basics oh like set a timer, write an email, etc that touch their apps and people's data. But I think they tried to get what they hyped (and every other big company in ai has hyped) out and discovered it was harder and way more expensive to do....so they are outsourcing for that expanded functionality.

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

@ppb1701 Apple is providing the hardware for these models, maybe even the chips. It's a good place to be. But that invites too many strangers to the ecosystem, and many of then aren't trustworthy. I'd like to believe Apple's claims to privacy will survive, but that looks increasingly questionable.

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@AAKL "Privacy. That's iPhone.*"

"*See Terms of Service for how far Privacy goes and what is actually covered."

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

@ppb1701 Yeah, right.

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@AAKL I'm actually working on another post that correlates to the whole privacy thing with Apple. so fun times! But unfortunately they seem to be moving to act more like other bigtech. They just tend to gift wrap it better.