Apple’s Siri can’t answer ‘What month is it?’

Ask Apple’ Siri the question, “What month is it?” Siri responds, “Sorry, I don’t understand.” You do, however, get a cool glow around the edges of your iPhone display though. Tim Cook’s Apple in a nutshell.

Hey, at least Siri, a victim of laughably inept management, politely apologized for being a useless piece of crap.

John Gruber for Daring Fireball:
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Whole Reddit thread examining this simple question: “What month is it?” and Siri’s “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” response (which I just reproduced on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18.4b4). One guy changed the question to “What month is it currently?” and got the answer “It is 2025.”

MacDailyNews on Thursday replicated this multiple times.
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote a year and two days ago:

Apple pays and has been paying John Giannandrea, Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and AI Strategy, millions upon millions of dollars for years. WTF of any import does he really do? WTF of any import has he really delivered? Have you used Siri lately? Yup, it’s still a steaming pile of dogshit.

Where’s Apple’s generative AI, John? “Too hard; too late; look for partners; gimme my paycheck and stock options.”

AAPL shareholders need to start asking real questions of these executives, especially those who are supposedly in charge of Apple’s “AI Strategy,” when the company clearly has none. How about some accountability for once? – MacDailyNews, March 18, 2024

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