Despite having recently been redesigned, Siri may soon be replaced on at least some Apple products. According to rumors, the company is already working on a new and redesigned interface for interacting with users.
According to
columnist Mark Gurman from Bloomberg, Apple "is working on another
interface with a human appearance" and with a greater personality. The
novelty is that it would be based on generative artificial intelligence (AI)
from the ground up — unlike Siri, which was born with a simpler proposal and is
gaining new features.
One vital piece of Apple’s robotic work is the creation of a personality. While Siri is the digital assistant on Apple’s current devices, the company is working on another humanlike interface based on GenAI. It could run on the tabletop and other future Apple robotics devices.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) August 25, 2024
The debut of the
new personal assistant would already be defined. It would take place in the
brand's future domestic robot, which is already being developed internally and
could be launched by 2027.
Consisting of an iPad as a screen, a robotic arm and a fixed body, the device will possibly act as a complete rival to Amazon's Echo Show, with several features to assist the user throughout the day.
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The redesign of Siri is one of the new features of Apple Intelligence, the AI platform for the brand's devices. The first features should debut with the iOS 18 update, and the tools are expected to be released at the end of 2024.
Siri's turbocharged AI functions are possible thanks to the development of the brand's tools and partnerships with other companies — such as OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT.
Apple's AI is trained with personal data, but this is done privately and only on the device, without sending the data to servers. Among Siri's new features, it can create tasks on its own based on information from other apps and answer questions with greater precision.
So far, the company
has not officially confirmed the existence of the new domestic robot nor the
development of a possible replacement for Siri.