Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend
Thomas Ricker is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years.
Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that’s very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human, Apple’s Craig Federighi said the new Siri won’t act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, and others.
“As you may know, if you use many of the existing chatbots, they’re really focused on engagement to a large degree,” said Federighi who is responsible for software at Apple. “And sycophancy, right? They kind of want to pull you in. They might encourage you to reveal things about yourself, and then use that as a basis to establish a connection.”
Apple purposely took a different approach with its AI chatbot. “We view...
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