I am knee-deep in LLMs all day, but I have disabled it on my devices. It just didn't seem useful. I tried the image generator once and the output was borderline offensive (I won't derail this thread by going into why).
Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad.
Really, they should have started with Siri, the moment LLMs became a thing. Not try to graft battery-draining AI assistants into existing apps in often-not-very-useful ways!
Always has been (c.2012)
You can no longer disable it without breaking CarPlay, and it’s started randomly activating when you press the power button on my phone when carplay is on.
My theory is that typing a GPS destination into my car dashboard at a stoplight is too dangerous, and typing it on a phone keyboard is also too dangerous, but unlocking the phone, frantically yelling “cancel” until you find the “STFU Siri” button on the steering wheel, dismissing random useless carplay displays and THEN typing the address into the phone is completely safe.
On a related note, they keep adding more distractions to the apple maps carplay screen. The other day, I was at an intersection, and the map rendered the sidewalks similarly to the road. It knew I was driving. Does it think using sidewalks as shortcuts is legal or something?
Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad.
Far from a popular opinion.
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-not...
Tech addicts, fr
Seems like an amazing tool for car trips.
Also, not sure where you are located but in the USA the cellular providers are god damn awful out in the sticks and certain segments of the highway.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the queries hang.
For those of us who enjoy some form of entertainment while driving, sometimes those things mentioned don't hit right or you getting bored of them or you run out of episodes, especially on long drives. Talking with ChatGPT's just another form of (audio) entertainment. I can ask it about whatever and have it interactively teach me about eg double entry accounting. I can interrupt with the dumbest questions and never feel judged.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I really appreciate any moment I can get where I'm not inundated with stimuli.
Using Siri and an iPhone for “hands free” driving, whether it’s ChatGPT or w/e, it’s not very user friendly.
Ask it for basic shit such as directions to some restaurant, and it takes seconds to load and sometimes even asks you to unlock your phone. Even worse experience with cellular connection.
No more hands free experience. Now it’s a very real distraction from what you _should_ be doing - driving the fucking vehicle and don’t kill anybody or maim a pedestrian.
Sick and tired of you distracted shit heads using your phone instead of paying attention to the god damn road.
Don’t even get me started on Cruise/Waymo or the god damn drive share shitheads.