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David Hogg

David Hogg

Content producer and radio presenter at RNIB Connect Radio, host of the Tech Talk show on accessible technology for blind and partially sighted people.

Aug 18, 2026

54:08
My main
54:09
thoughts on Siri AI is if this had come out in 2024, this would be amazing.
54:19
But in the AI landscape that we're now in of command line interfaces and your codecs and your cloud code, Siri AI does a very good job of being a basic chatbot.
54:37
But if you're wanting more agentic stuff to be happening on your device, building Python scripts or anything, then it's not going to be amazing at that.
54:49
And it's worth noting that it is in beta now.
54:52
I think it's going to be in beta when it comes out in September.
54:56
So it's going to be interesting to see how Apple... make changes to the model over time, whether they tie it to their annual software updates or whether they just push them out as and when remains to be seen.
55:28
Apple's priority is that the kind of basic stuff is covered first before they kind of look into maybe allowing this chatbot to be a little bit more techie for those that will want to use it for these sorts of purposes, do you think?

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