Hey Siri, increase the volume.
"I'll do that after you get divorced and start drinking a six pack for lunch."
"I'll do that after you get divorced and start drinking a six pack for lunch."
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Apple Engineers Reportedly Working on ChatGPT-Like AI Despite Siri Design Flaws
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Agreed. Hopefully they can do this before too long. In another year, ChatGPT and spinoffs are going to make Apple look like they're a decade out of date.
The sad thing is that is how Siri started - they bought it. But they have no idea how to do this type of thing.
Our forum posts will all be be replaced by ChatGPT one day.
Apple have rewritten things from the ground up before. Fingers crossed they do it with Siri
Agreed. Siri is ready for total rework from the ground up. Im sure there are people inside the Loop that have been trying to make this happen
If he had that assessment in 2014, couldn't they have completely rebuilt from scratch since then? That was 9 years ago.
Tim Cook has been a stable hand at Apple, building on the success of the roadmap Steve had defined. But he's not Steve Jobs. It takes a visionary to look beyond all the noise of "what's next" and identify future technologies and how they'll meet a still unrequested need that'll intersect with that technology becoming available. Steve Jobs' gift was that he could see years and even decades in advance and would start skating towards that puck. Apple doesn't have that today.
Neglecting Siri will probably be Tim Cook's undoing, specially if they're now just reacting to generative AI. Apple isn't going to suddenly collapse just because it doesn't have an openAI competitor but it could gradually make Apple devices less competitive if say Google integrates Bard directly into Android at a time when every user wants apps with generative AI built in and importantly, every developer wants to build those apps. If they can't do it on iOS, they'll build them exclusively on Android and that's going to be a problem for Apple.
I started a thread in February where I go deeper into this subject and my fears of Apple having missed the boat are starting to be realized.
Neglecting Siri will probably be Tim Cook's undoing, specially if they're now just reacting to generative AI. Apple isn't going to suddenly collapse just because it doesn't have an openAI competitor but it could gradually make Apple devices less competitive if say Google integrates Bard directly into Android at a time when every user wants apps with generative AI built in and importantly, every developer wants to build those apps. If they can't do it on iOS, they'll build them exclusively on Android and that's going to be a problem for Apple.
I started a thread in February where I go deeper into this subject and my fears of Apple having missed the boat are starting to be realized.
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Maybe with AI Siri will finally be able to understand my poor wife's accent, lol. Don't get me started on my 6 year old, here is him telling Siri to message me "Miss you."
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Lots of comments here showing that reality doesn’t matter at all.
ChatGPT is an extremely fancy language generator. It is NOT a repository of knowledge. It is not intelligent, and just because it’s output seem authoritative does not mean what it’s “saying” is *correct*.
It’s a massive problem if people don’t understand that key point.
ChatGPT is an extremely fancy language generator. It is NOT a repository of knowledge. It is not intelligent, and just because it’s output seem authoritative does not mean what it’s “saying” is *correct*.
It’s a massive problem if people don’t understand that key point.
Apple should go full-speed ahead with Siri development, especially now that commercial AI is here. It's unforgivable the lack of advancement in this space over the past decade.
Well, this explains a lot about why improvements to Siri have been slow-to-nonexistent in recent years. Siri was best-in-class in 2011 but seems hopelessly dated by today's standards.
So are we going to see a total rewrite of Siri's back end, built on a modern codebase utilizing GPT or another LLM AI?
(Edit: Apparently Microsoft has an exclusive license to use GPT-3/GPT-4 technology, so I guess Siri won't use GPT)
There is a wide gap between conversational texting and speech recognition. And then another wide gap between getting the speech understood and translating that into code. Which is why most the digital assistants still fail to impress. Siri is just as bad as the rest.
I would like to see them integrate stable diffusion. They could automate the training and potentially make some very fun things possible. Right now it’s quite the process on mac.
I would like to see them integrate stable diffusion. They could automate the training and potentially make some very fun things possible. Right now it’s quite the process on mac.
I’m interested in improvements to Siri. I’m not interested in an “essay writing” AI.
Very easy: that would mean: licensing money out, no "competitive edge" or "unique selling point".
Not that Siri is a very good selling point, still, Apple can tout being the only platform with Siri.
It's been absolutely incredible for me writing insurance denial appeals. I thoroughly check the citations and make sure everything is factual because I don't trust it. But what used to take me 2 hours now takes about 2 minutes, with another maybe 20 minutes of fact checking. But based on what I've read, they need to really get better at plagiarism and factual content.
As pointed out previously, the NYT article is poorly written to make it appear that the state of siri in 2014 is how the codebase is in 2023. The guy quoted left Apple in 2016 to run his own AI chatbot company.
Tech journalism is a joke, and media literacy is in an even more dire state.
For the basics I use Siri, which is setting a timer and reminders. For complex stuff, and I mean some deep $***, I use the new Bing. I recently used the new Bing to plan a trip and I swear, its someone from that place I plan to visit typing out the text.
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Oh no, it definitely has extremely useful use cases.
My fear is that when not used for work, but inevitably gets used for things it’s not designed for (academics, NEWS REPORTING, etc) it’s going to be a massive problem.
ChatGPT is not a search engine, and has no way to verify its own “factual” output.
When used in a confined space, to do what it’s designed for (generate language based on criteria) it’s great.
But it is NOT a *knowledge* source, at all.