To Truly Fix Siri, Apple May Have to Backtrack on One Key Thing--Privacy

Apple Intelligence is fast becoming a disaster. Announced in June 2024 at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, the artificial intelligence system arrived on the whole iPhone 16 family in October (and iPhone 15 Pro handsets, too), bringing things like generative tools for folks who can't be bothered to write emails, and summaries for those who can't be bothered to read, well, just about anything. December's addition, Genmoji--an AI emoji generator--didn't exactly bring much by way of excitement either. At the heart of the Apple Intelligence we were actually promised is a new Siri, an upgraded version of Apple's voice assistant, enhanced with some of the same smarts that made ChatGPT so beguiling at its launch in 2022. Amazon made similar moves recently with its upgrade to Alexa, but a more intelligent Siri is still MIA. It was meant to be here already.