I have a list in Apple/iCloud Reminders called, literally, "Shopping". Pre-Siri AI saying "hey siri add eggs to my shopping list" puts it into the correct list. Post-Siri AI saying the same thing gets a "you'll need to unlock your iPhone" response. This isn't specific to a "shopping list", it's just any named list in general. I have a list called "Chores" and "Errands" and saying "add get cash from the atm to my errands list" gets the same refusal.
Siri is not incapable of adding reminders when the phone is locked. A generic "remind me to buy eggs" gets a "buy eggs" item added to the default list. It just refuses to put them into specific lists, which then means I have to triage it later and i ain't got time for that.
It can run on one strix halo machine, which is what I have. For everything else, there’s a vibrant community brute forcing more efficient engines and quantizations. There’s a minimum bar right now, so it depends on your hardware.
I bought my box for $3k last year because I hadn't updated my PC since the first threadripper 1950x, and the Strix Halo is the only x86 with unified memory that's optimized for the kind of CPU intensive stuff I do, and they finally have proper AVX512 too. It was the perfect upgrade for me (except for lack of PCIe 5 & ECC), which coincidentally happened to be perfectly positioned for local inferrence.
and I liked it so much (and saw that the RAM drought was going to last for at least a few years) so I bought a second one to use as a general server for myself and my family.
Why cant the community piece together the open-weights using open community-based like, implementation or whatever magic sauce integrates those weights
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