# Siri Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Apple's intelligent personal assistant (IPA): use voice commands to execute tasks, manage apps, and find information across all Apple operating systems.

Siri is Apple's proprietary virtual assistant, first launched with the iPhone 4s on October 4, 2011. It is integrated across the Apple ecosystem: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Users activate the service by voice (saying 'Siri' or 'Hey Siri') or button press, then use natural-language queries to perform actions (send a text, set a 6:00 AM alarm) or retrieve information (weather, sports scores). A core design principle is privacy: many requests are processed via on-device intelligence, and audio is not associated with the user’s Apple Account.

- Official technology site: https://www.apple.com/siri/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Reliable AI Agents](https://nyc.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_TE3Go21sxYY)

AI agent demos based on LLMs are so common, but as Tinkerers we know they have many pitfalls around accuracy and hallucination. If we alter the prompt just slightly, the output completely changes! Grounded in years of dialogue systems research, I will be presenting the latest features in an agent built using classical approaches to Conversational AI. Rather than LLMs+RAG, this agent has an special NLU module (natural language understanding) that explicitly predicts and tracks specific named entities in the conversation, allowing for unprecedented control and reliability.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers NYC May 2024 Meetup — 2024-05-22 — New York City
- Public talk page: https://nyc.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_TE3Go21sxYY

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