Apple Reminds Siri AI That It’s A Software, And That It Does Not “Experience Emotions Or Have A Physical Body, Gender, Nationality, Or Personal History”

Rohail Saleem
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Apple apparently does not want Siri AI getting into controversies that might result from the remnants of biases in its training data, and it has settled on a seemingly elegant solution to minimize such gaffes.

One of the first lines of prompt for Siri AI reads like a DEI litany, at least in part

According to the tech guru Max Weinbach, who has been putting Siri AI through its paces, so to say, one of the first lines in the new Siri's prompt reads like an anti-bias mantra, reminding Siri that it has no emotions, body, gender, nationality, or history.

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Given the fact that this mantra will likely be included in almost all queries, Siri AI might just manage to escape the controversies that have hounded some of its competitors, especially xAI's Grok.

For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Apple's new Siri is now built into the Dynamic Island, has access to personalized context, and remains aware of on-screen content.

For instance, you can now ask Siri AI about an upcoming concert and add the corresponding date to your Reminders with simple voice commands. It can also tell you what a particular image is about, surface personalized context related to that image - a friend who lives near a park, for instance - and give directions to that friend's residence.

Of course, to surface an intimately personalized context, Siri AI has extensive access and privilege. As far as Apple's AI architecture is concerned, an orchestrator now collects all of the data required and then determines where to send your Siri AI query: on-device models or to the cloud, where encrypted NVIDIA GPUs and Apple Private Compute protocols maintain rigid user privacy.

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