I need you to be like my bank and learn how those new threats work and prevent them from affecting me before I even notice. The more people become reliant on using you, the more new threats there will be against you and the information you have access to. All this happens before I notice anything wrong with my account. I want you to actively defend it, identify potential threats and be proactive at stopping any breaches.įor example, my bank will call to tell me that an unauthorized purchase was attempted on my credit card and that they prevented it from happening. I need you to continue to protect my information and go beyond just encrypting it. The Rock accesses his life goals list using Siri in an ad for Apple. These are baby steps, but important nonetheless. In iOS 11, you'll be able to learn a bit about me and my preferences in order to predict music I might like, recommend Apple News stories and predict Safari searches. And that quickly gets into privacy concerns, which I'll go more into later.

Some of that knowledge will come from being able to compare my behavior and situation with those of other people. A future where you can predict and even deal with inconveniences before I am affected by them. The way in which you notify me to leave my house early because of traffic points to a more helpful future. This means learning more about my behaviors, my situational context and more facts about me. I bring all this up because you're capable of being so much more useful, you just need more information about me and the ability to process it quickly. But these are still pretty remedial tasks that require a lot of setup on my part. I like that you can automate smart appliances, adjust the temperature in my home, turn on lights and preheat the water in my shower. I can ask you questions with a press of the home button or a simple 'Hey Siri.' More and more, you give me the answer I'm looking for, but occasionally, I still get a list of search results that don't exactly help. But I'm hoping that you get more serious improvements like making your interface more consistent across devices and protecting my Such as a more natural sounding voice and being able to type out queries. Neither are your fellow artificial intelligence assistants: Amazon Alexa, Samsung Bixby, Microsoft Cortana or Google Assistant.Īpple has already announced a couple nifty improvements for you that will come with But as helpful as you try to be, you just aren't that convenient. Over the years, you became faster and able to handle more tasks and queries. At that time, you were a cool novelty that I'd show off to friends at a bar. It's been six years since you were released in beta. Many people are hoping for a radical redesign, others are debating what the new phone will be called: iPhone Pro, Edition, X, or just 8? But my mind is on you, Siri. Is holding an event to most likely announce the next iPhone.

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