Siri is often powerless. It's impossible to make Siri open a certain video on Youtube. It doesn't even know about the existence of YT, and if you don't have the music locally on your device, it says it didn't find it.
That's why I am excited for more services integrated into personal assistants. I think both Apple and Google have been stagnating. How many years have passed and Siri only just knows how to send a SMS, make a phone call, set an alarm and look up trivia. And all that with very simple phrases, that don't combine multiple requests into one or ask a more nuanced search question and filtering criteria.
Even a regular person knows it should be able to perform such tasks (as opening an app with a specific request), they are not AI, just basic integration.
Another example: go to Google Now and say "Search Beatles on Youtube". Ok, it searches for Beatles in the YT app, but doesn't start playing. Then I say "Play the first result". It goes to web search and displays pages containing "play the first result" text in them. Stupid! I was already in the YT app, asking it to "play".
So what is this? Laziness on the part of Google and Apple, that's what it is, not a difficult AI problem that can't be solved. And the API is closed so I can't add any new behavior in it. I hope Viv kicks their butts and launches them into action.
That's why I am excited for more services integrated into personal assistants. I think both Apple and Google have been stagnating. How many years have passed and Siri only just knows how to send a SMS, make a phone call, set an alarm and look up trivia. And all that with very simple phrases, that don't combine multiple requests into one or ask a more nuanced search question and filtering criteria.
Even a regular person knows it should be able to perform such tasks (as opening an app with a specific request), they are not AI, just basic integration.
Another example: go to Google Now and say "Search Beatles on Youtube". Ok, it searches for Beatles in the YT app, but doesn't start playing. Then I say "Play the first result". It goes to web search and displays pages containing "play the first result" text in them. Stupid! I was already in the YT app, asking it to "play".
So what is this? Laziness on the part of Google and Apple, that's what it is, not a difficult AI problem that can't be solved. And the API is closed so I can't add any new behavior in it. I hope Viv kicks their butts and launches them into action.