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CharlesWyesterday at 9:32 PM1 replyview on HN

> it's relatively useless (even with Siri stuff they added in macOS 27)

Would Antfly do better with the tasks listed at https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri?


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drewlanengayesterday at 10:02 PM

On the whole, yes. Antfly can create full-text, semantic, and graph indexes natively, so scaffolding a personal knowledge graph is quite straightforward (and is what SearchAF does). But more to your question about that task list:

- Category 1 (Personal Info): Yes. Especially if you choose to index notes, emails, photos, etc. - Category 2 (Phone & App Control): No. This is what Siri should have been doing all along, and probably not an Antfly task. We'd obviously have less hooks for tool calls than what Apple exposes to Siri internally ("take a selfie") - Category 3 (Internet Queries): Yes. Antfly also has the ability to - Category 4 (Visual Intelligence): Yes. Antfly enables a lot here for multi-modal inference. And intelligence isn't necessarily restricted to Antfly's own inference tools -- SearchAF also ingests image tags classified by Siri. - Category 5 (Screen Intelligence): Yes. Providing image context on-the-fly would come from Antfly's natively embedded inference runtime (which again, all runs on-device).

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