Apple has asked Google to set up servers specifically for hosting a new Gemini-powered version of Siri that meets Apple's privacy requirements, according to The Information. This represents a deeper infrastructure partnership beyond the January announcement that Google's Gemini models would power upgraded Siri features.
Apple researchers have identified a fundamental limitation in speech-adapted large language models: they consistently underperform their text-based counterparts on language understanding tasks. The team terms this the 'text-speech understanding gap' and documents that speech-adapted LLMs lag behind both their original text versions and cascaded speech-to-text pipelines.
Apple Intelligence, which automatically summarizes notifications and messages on hundreds of millions of devices, systematically generates stereotyped and hallucinated content according to an independent AI Forensics investigation. The analysis of over 10,000 AI-generated summaries reveals bias baked into the feature that pushes problematic assumptions to users unprompted.
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