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Siri today is built on what’s essentially completely different concepts from something like ChatGPT.

There are demos of using ChatGPT to turn normal English into Alexa commands and it’s pretty flawless. If you assume Apple can pretty easily leverage LLM tech on Siri and do it locally via silicon in the M3 or M4, it’s only a matter of chip lead time before Siri has multiple orders of magnitude improvement.

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That experience likely isn’t transferable to Siri, that has deeper problems. People, me included, are reporting their problems with Siri, e.g. setting it to transcribing what they and Siri says as text on the screen, and then are able to show that given input as “Please add milk to the shopping list” results in Siri responding “I do not understand what speaker you refer to.”, in writing.

Likely problems like these could be overcome, but preparing better input would probably not address the root cause of the problems with Siri.

That would be a pleasant surprise!

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