Like many people, Siri was my first glimpse at what was possible with AI. Naturally, I imagined the future of artificial intelligence would look exactly like the voice assistants we already had in our pockets. We would ask questions, set reminders, send messages and perhaps get slightly more coherent answers than before. When ChatGPT first launched, I assumed it was the beginning of a smarter Siri. But then AI evolved while Siri stayed the same.
That thought kept coming back to me during Apple's reveal of the new Siri AI at WWDC. To Apple's credit, the company has finally addressed the core complaints users have harbored for a decade. Siri can now understand personal context, parse what is on your screen, work across native apps, hold natural multi-turn conversations and take actions on your behalf. In many ways, this is the definitive version of Siri people have been asking for since the early days of voice assistants.
