It drew deeply from his life in Park Slope, where he shared a brick townhouse with his wife, the novelist Siri Hustvedt.

DATA Replaces Siri with ChatGPT. Or any other language model of your choice.

The mainstream adoption of intelligent assistants like Siri and Alexa demonstrated that even scripted agents could be breakout consumer hits.

ShortWeb adds the ability to automate actions on web pages. It allows you to click links, fill in fields, and more. You can write code to make this happen or just tap through a web page while ShortWeb is recording. You can then save a set of actions for a web page as a macro within the app. Then, in Shortcuts, you can call this macro within a Shortcut. This means that you can automate your way through web pages with Shortcuts easily. There are a few bugs in the ShortWeb app, but on the whole, it’s a solid experience. Give this one a look if you want to or already have created Shortcuts that work on the web! It’ll give you a plethora of new tools and ideas to work with.

These actions include the ability to add passes to the Wallet app, parse CSV files, generate random data, and create universal variables.

for most people, it’s definitely not essential; you don't need Siri to function the way you need your phone. Now that Apple has an assistant it trusts, it has to teach people how to use it.

375 million people use Siri every month.