Better Ki-Siri: Prefer injections Apple's schedule?

After Apple's postponement of a “better personalized Siri”, guessing rates begins with the exact reasons. While the US financial news agency Bloomberg reported that several senior employees at Apple were not satisfied with the quality of the improvements so far, a different thesis is circulating in developer circles.

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So the developer Simon Willison expressed The assumptionthat Apple may have come across a big problem with so -called prompt injections. So far, none of the big AI developer companies has been able to completely solve this challenge. In the case of Siri, the negative effects for the user could be significant.

Basic change necessary?

A prompt injection is a kind of hack with which existing instructions from the manufacturer are lifted to artificial intelligence. In this way, access to private data such as contacts and messages could be taken or actions in the system could be triggered.

Since Apple cannot fall back on functioning solutions of others, the problem may be much more profound than the shift to the coming year suggests. Apple had to achieve a fundamental change in Large Language Models, unless there has been a solution – in this context there has already been speculation that there could be a complete restart in the efforts for a better siri.

Criticism of the early announcement

In the meantime, critical voices are increasing that Apple may have announced its better voice assistant at the WWDC world developer conference in June 2024. On the other hand, the pressure on Apple grew up to this idea for months and industry observers, the company saw under pressure to show how to deal with the trend topic AI.

Among other things, the knowledge of a personal context should play a role in the skills of a better siri. The voice assistance should also be able to view screen contents and interact with the user's apps. Apple wants to achieve all of this with improved data protection that should be outstanding in the industry.