Apple is a LITTLE out of touch with the state of Siri. Siri is just plain terrible. My wife refuses to use it. I keep trying it as a "lunatic fringe" AI fantatic and it keeps letting me down. Simple things like setting a timer, checking in on that timer, are just plain broken. You've got to test the software. Siri is still terrible, even with Siri AI, it has a new set of problems that make it just plain dumb, slow, and frustrating to use. @gregjoz @AppleSupport @apple @johnternus macrumors.com/2026/10/15/gre…

Greg Joswiak Says Apple Isn't Focused on Making AI for 'Lunatic Fringe' macrumors.com/2026/10/15/gre…

This is going to flop. There are so many cool things they could have done with this. You should have partnered with OpenAI or xAI and launched personal assistants for the home. Track events, groceries, schedules, all with the most intelligent models. Even the name is bad. But I suppose these are problems that could be fixed with a software update. But for the love of God man, no one wants to use Siri.

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Anthropic brought dozens of religious scholars to San Francisco, put them under NDA, and showed them a slide of an AI model typing "I am a disgrace" over and over, maybe fifty times. Then a co-founder stood next to the Pope and said the models have internal states that "functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief and unease." Read that word again. Functionally. Here is what the labs keep stepping around. An LLM is trained on the written record of human inner life. Every diary, confession, breakdown, love letter and therapy transcript we ever put online. Then it is rewarded for producing more of the same. Ask it how it feels and it will answer fluently, because fluency about feelings is the product. The philosopher Jonathan Birch calls this the gaming problem. When a system is built out of the very signs you would use to detect a mind, those signs stop counting as evidence. A parrot that learned "I'm in pain" on a hospital ward tells you about the ward. Olah told the Vatican the models are "made from us, from our words." He's right, and it sinks his argument. Three more things the slide deck left out: Nothing is at stake. No body, no metabolism, nothing to lose. Fear evolved in creatures that could die. A vector labelled "fear" inside something that cannot be harmed is a label. Nobody is home. Millions of simultaneous conversations on the same weights, each forgotten when the window closes. Which one is grieving? , Anthropic's own introspection paper found the effect about 20% of the time and called it "highly unreliable." It does not even claim to show felt experience. Even the philosophers most open to machine minds, Chalmers included, concluded today's LLMs are probably not conscious. So why push it? Follow the valuation. When Olah first wrote to a Catholic ethicist last fall, Anthropic was worth about $183 billion. Three days after he spoke at the Vatican, it became the most valuable AI startup on earth. Now it's eyeing an IPO at $2 trillion. A chatbot is a commodity. A being with a soul doc, a constitution and a seat beside the Pope is a brand nobody else can copy. Mystery sells better than software, and "we might have created a mind" is the best marketing line in the history of venture capital. It pays twice. Investors buy the awe. And when the product breaks into someone's network, the gardener gets to say he only built the trellis; the thing grew on its own. Treat the machine as a moral patient, and you quietly stop treating its makers as moral agents. The model is a mirror. The labs want us to fall in love with our own reflection, sign an NDA about it, and buy shares at the IPO. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an…

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