My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AI
My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AI
我与 Siri AI 的短暂夏日恋情
When I first tested the developer beta of Apple’s Siri AI by taking it as my tour guide around San Francisco, I was convinced the overhauled smartphone assistant would be an “everything tool” on the iPhone. The answers felt reliable enough and more helpful than previous versions of Siri. Also, the chatbot-style app for Siri felt very sleek, very Apple-y.
当我第一次测试苹果 Siri AI 的开发者测试版，并把它当作向导带我游览旧金山时，我确信这个经过彻底改造的智能手机助手将成为 iPhone 上的“万能工具”。它的回答足够可靠，也比旧版 Siri 更实用。此外，Siri 的聊天机器人风格界面感觉非常简洁，非常有“苹果味”。
Over the next month, I kept experimenting with the Siri AI in the iOS 18 beta. The tool was quite powerful, especially with the personal context brought in by indexing the contents of my phone. Finding an ancient text message or photo has never been easier. Even so, my usage of the smartphone assistant slowly started tapering off.
在接下来的一个月里，我一直在 iOS 18 测试版中尝试使用 Siri AI。这个工具非常强大，特别是通过索引手机内容所带来的个人语境功能。查找陈旧的短信或照片变得前所未有的简单。即便如此，我对这个智能手机助手的使用频率还是慢慢开始下降。
It’s not that Siri AI isn’t better now. It is! This new version is quite the step change, which makes my reaction even more devastating. Siri AI isn’t revolutionizing how I interact with my phone the way I’d initially hoped, especially as an AI assistant built directly into the device and factoring in that Apple gives more thought to preserving my privacy than many other AI companies.
并不是说 Siri AI 现在不够好。它确实变好了！这个新版本是一个巨大的飞跃，这让我的反应显得更加令人沮丧。Siri AI 并没有像我最初希望的那样彻底改变我与手机互动的方式，尤其是考虑到它是一个内置于设备中的 AI 助手，且苹果在保护隐私方面比许多其他 AI 公司考虑得更多。
Even though I wasn’t going out of my way to interact with Siri AI, I didn’t mind how it was now, essentially, the search bar for the smartphone. As the summer months faded, I wasn’t souring on Siri AI. Instead, I just grew more neutral.
尽管我并没有刻意去使用 Siri AI，但我并不介意它现在本质上成为了智能手机的搜索栏。随着夏日时光流逝，我并没有对 Siri AI 产生反感，反而变得更加无感了。
Old habits die hard. Soon I was back to my regularly scheduled doomscrolling on Instagram and aimless Yelp expeditions. I was manually typing and swiping for myself rather than relying on a smartphone assistant for help. And I was already low-key locked in with another chatbot, Anthropic’s Claude, and already used that app fairly often on my phone.
旧习难改。很快，我又回到了在 Instagram 上刷屏和在 Yelp 上漫无目的地搜索的日常。我开始手动输入和滑动，而不是依赖智能手机助手的帮助。而且，我已经悄悄地成为了另一个聊天机器人——Anthropic 旗下的 Claude 的忠实用户，并且已经在手机上频繁使用该应用。
Even though some AI power users may not go all in on this new Siri, analysts say this won’t matter, since everyday users are often fine with Apple’s default software. “Will Siri bear the weight of criticism for not being as good as some of its peers? Sure,” says Dipanjan Chatterjee, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, a research and consultancy company. “Will it make a difference to the vast installed base of iPhone users and cause them to look elsewhere? Not a chance.” Some iPhone users trust Apple with their data in ways they don’t with any other company. Siri AI may reap those same benefits.
尽管一些 AI 高阶用户可能不会完全投入到这个新 Siri 的怀抱，但分析师表示这并不重要，因为普通用户通常对苹果的默认软件感到满意。研究与咨询公司 Forrester 的副总裁兼首席分析师 Dipanjan Chatterjee 表示：“Siri 会因为不如某些同行而受到批评吗？当然会。但这会对庞大的 iPhone 用户群产生影响并导致他们转向其他平台吗？绝无可能。”一些 iPhone 用户对苹果数据隐私的信任程度是其他公司无法比拟的。Siri AI 或许能从中获益。
Tech analysts see Apple’s long-cultivated consumer trust in data privacy as potentially a compelling distinction. Ramon Llamas, a research director analyzing the mobile device market at the International Data Corporation, believes users deep in the Apple ecosystem, who previously had qualms about the safety of other AI tools, may be open to trying the new Siri.
科技分析师认为，苹果长期以来在数据隐私方面建立的消费者信任可能是一个极具吸引力的差异化优势。国际数据公司（IDC）负责移动设备市场分析的研究总监 Ramon Llamas 认为，深陷苹果生态系统的用户，如果之前对其他 AI 工具的安全性存有疑虑，可能会愿意尝试新版 Siri。
My experience with Siri AI—loving it and then leaving it for dust—may be an outlier. Many other beta testers are still rocking with the smartphone assistant.
我与 Siri AI 的这段经历——从喜爱到冷落——可能只是个例。许多其他测试人员仍然在使用这个智能手机助手。
“In the past, I was unwilling to trust that Siri could do anything useful,” says Avi Greengart, founder and lead analyst at Techsponential. “But with the latest beta software, I’m finding myself not only using it more, but for more things: Siri is now able to find information buried on my phone faster and more efficiently than any other method, its world knowledge is vastly better than before, and even dictation works better.”
“过去，我不愿相信 Siri 能做任何有用的事情，”Techsponential 的创始人兼首席分析师 Avi Greengart 说，“但通过最新的测试版软件，我发现自己不仅使用它的频率更高了，而且用途也更广了：Siri 现在能比任何其他方法更快、更高效地找到我手机里深藏的信息，它的世界知识储备也比以前丰富得多，甚至听写功能也更好用了。”
That said, the cultural backlash to generative AI has been brewing. Another solid segment of iPhone owners may choose to avoid the new Siri altogether because of the AI attached to its name. Whether it’s a moral objection or broader distrust of AI tools, these holdouts are unlikely to be won over by Siri’s feature improvements.
话虽如此，针对生成式 AI 的文化抵制情绪一直在酝酿。另一部分坚定的 iPhone 用户可能会因为其名字中带有“AI”而完全避开新版 Siri。无论是出于道德上的反对，还是对 AI 工具的普遍不信任，这些抵制者不太可能被 Siri 的功能改进所打动。
Ultimately, my own summer fling with Siri AI was short-lived. But I promise, it’s not you. It’s me.
归根结底，我与 Siri AI 的这场夏日恋情是短暂的。但我保证，不是你的问题，是我的问题。