I hope apple builds an integration between Siri and ChatGPT where Siri plays a role of transmitting our voice commands as text to ChatGPT and converts the ChatGPT response back as voice. Nothing else!
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Apple Engineers Reportedly Working on ChatGPT-Like AI Despite Siri Design Flaws
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The car is a moon shot and I don't think they realized it Forgot about Apple Silicon - even if they can't scale it to the Mac Pro, I count that as a big win for them so far.
More importantly, ChatGPT could respond to Siri in a way that Siri understands better, at least in the near term. Long term, Siri would simply become another Bing Bot, a clone of ChatGPT with access and integration into Apple's ecosystem and authentication.
I'm sure they'd be hesitant to collaborate with language model companies, but that seems like an inevitability. "Hey Siri, ask Claude"... Another possibility is opening up the voice assistant to user choice, like for other native apps. Being able to say "Hey Siri", "Hey Google", and "Hey GPT" the same way I can use Safari or Chrome..
What this is built on is available for all to replicate. It could take a while, but Apple would at least be able to match 3 or 4 by the time 6 were to come out.Unfortunately, the plan is foiled at step 1, because "Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model".. And GPT-4, as well.
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model - The Official Microsoft Blog
One of the most gratifying parts of my job at Microsoft is being able to witness and influence the intersection of technological progress and impact: harnessing the big trends in computing that have the opportunity to benefit everybody on the planet. Frank’s post this morning from Ignite shows...blogs.microsoft.com
So, perhaps Apple could call OpenAI up and negotiate for GPT-5, 6, 7, 8... But 3 and 4 are not going to happen. Unless Apple and Microsoft pen a deal? Would Apple want that? Would MS want that?
Oi! Why is Blade Runner on the list? All Batty wanted was to live longer. The stupid planned obsolescence nonsense with technology is getting out of hand. I don't want my Kryten replaced by Hudson 10.
Where is the Matrix? Deus Ex Machina wasn't such a bad guy, as far as bad guys go. The Machines could have wiped out humanity after winning the war that we started. Instead they allowed humans to live on in a fantasy world, a paradise compared to the bleak reality of a sunless world.
I look forward to a version of Siri that will not only misunderstand everything I say, but also lie to me in response. Maybe even be passive aggressive about it.
A basic rule of engineering: recognise a pile of crap for what it is, own that mistake, and then you can do something about it. Hopefully learn from the mistake along the way, but the first steps are recognition and acceptance.
Apple seem to have had their head in the sand about Siri for years. It's crap. The whole industry knows it is. Apple - you know it is. So own that. Move on, and build something better. These new generative techniques are the perfect excuse to start afresh with a new solution, not that you should have needed such an excuse.
Apple seem to have had their head in the sand about Siri for years. It's crap. The whole industry knows it is. Apple - you know it is. So own that. Move on, and build something better. These new generative techniques are the perfect excuse to start afresh with a new solution, not that you should have needed such an excuse.
Highly doubtful that Apple is reacting to the recent interest in AI from ChatGPT. As I’ve said before — these technologies don’t come out of nowhere — Apple, MS, Google, Tesla, etc. have all been working on something for years. In the case of Apple, what these reports assume is that they are looking at building something on top of Siri — when in fact, it is possible they have working at rebuilding Siri from the ground.
Sorry repository is the wrong word. Being able to access previously stored information is a far cry from understanding what that information actually is. The term I’m looking for right now is it coming to mind.
ChatGPT’s own response is exactly what I was saying. ChatGPT on its own is not an assistant, it would need to be developed into one. So the poster I was responding to was barking up the wrong tree.
Noam is THE guy that made modern linguistics what it is. ChatGPT AS A LANGUAGE MODEL wouldn’t exist without his work. It’s not an AI, it is a language model with a user interface on the front end.
The bold part was my point. ChatGPT can be used in nearly limitless scenarios…if developed into them.
A user asking Siri to play a song today does it (in the best case scenario).
ChatGPT asked to to that today won’t…because it’s not integrated into systems to do that.
So when a poster says “I bet ChatGPT can handle this request for music better than Siri”, they’re just wrong, because right now ChatGPT isn’t incorporated into any music player other than some experiments people have done on their own. ChatGPT, today, is not a voice assistant. That’s a plain fact, not a comment on what it inevitably will do, but what it does today.
If it's anything like ChatGPT, it's going to confidently make things up that people will believe at face value. Can't wait.
"The stupid planned obsolescence nonsense with technology is getting out of hand"
That's why?
And, I could have gone on and on with more examples... but I was depressing myself?
My 8 year old is very excited by ChatGPT, Siri, Alexa and all other voice assistants.
Apple is testing generative AI concepts that could one day be destined for Siri, despite fundamental issues with the way the virtual assistant is built, the New York Times reports.
Employees were apparently briefed on Apple's large language model and other AI tools at the company's annual AI summit last month. Apple engineers, including members of the Siri team, have reportedly been testing language-generation concepts "every week" in response to the rise of chatbots like ChatGPT.
These next-generation AI technologies have highlighted how Siri, Alexa, and other voice assistants have squandered their lead in the AI race, the report explains. Siri, in particular, has faced multiple roadblocks to meaningful improvements. Speaking to the New York Times, former Apple engineer John Burkey, who worked on Siri and was made responsible for improving it in 2014, explained that the voice assistant is built on "clunky code that took weeks to update with basic features."
Its "cumbersome design" made it very difficult for engineers to add new features. For example, Siri's database contains a large list of phrases in almost two dozen languages, making it "one big snowball." If someone wanted to add a word to Siri's database, Burkey added, "it goes in one big pile."
This means that simple updates like adding new phrases to the data set requires rebuilding the entire Siri database, which could take up to six weeks. Adding more complicated features like new search tools could take up to a whole year.
As a result, there was no path for Siri to become a "creative assistant" like ChatGPT, Burkey believes. Earlier this week, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4, its next-generation AI engine, enabling even more advanced responses from ChatGPT.
Last week, DigiTimes reported that the growing interest in generative AI catalyzed by ChatGPT has motivated a re-evaluation of how the technology is developed at major companies like Apple, Meta, and Amazon. These companies are purportedly making efforts to ensure Microsoft does not maintain its lead in AI. Apple and Tesla, in particular, are said to be reconsidering their approach to AI.
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For me SIRI is just about at the right level, the biggest thing it lacks is other languages.
A fully functioning voice assistant makes people brain lazy 😏
My entire point in a single sentence.
People are acting like it’s output is correct, because it’s phrased in a confident way.
Anyone with access to it, can we get an output on the prompt “explain to me why the earth is flat”? I’m genuinely curious about its response if you’re demanding it to “prove” a falsehood.
I actually think Siri is a fine voice assistant now. But it would be nice if Apple did an AI-api to communicate with all the coming bots. For example if you could say: Hey bing or hey chat-gpt or what's coming next. Apple could also use chat-gpt to solve all their language problems, a feature like scribble shouldn't take a year or two to implement for the other languages.
But we have chat gpt on Duolingo etc.Unfortunately, the plan is foiled at step 1, because "Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model".. And GPT-4, as well.
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model - The Official Microsoft Blog
One of the most gratifying parts of my job at Microsoft is being able to witness and influence the intersection of technological progress and impact: harnessing the big trends in computing that have the opportunity to benefit everybody on the planet. Frank’s post this morning from Ignite shows...
So, perhaps Apple could call OpenAI up and negotiate for GPT-5, 6, 7, 8... But 3 and 4 are not going to happen. Unless Apple and Microsoft pen a deal? Would Apple want that? Would MS want that?
So it’s not the openai is only working with Microsoft.
Is this using their business API do you think? I mean Duolingo, Stripe etc. ?
Just trying to work out the business relationships here.
"These next-generation AI technologies have highlighted how Siri, Alexa, and other voice assistants have squandered their lead in the AI race"
A bit unfair. Google did this YEARS ago - and people lost their minds and freaked out like the world was going to end. Google assistant could call and make appointments for you and have natural conversation. I got to beta test it and it was insane. The problem was it was so good, people at a hair salon or plumber didn't know it wasn't a real person. Then they had it start to share it was Google Assistant and people hung up on it and it never rolled out as planned. Also people was terrified of nefarious uses for it.
Then there is the Google AI that one of it's developers tried telling the world was sentient. I still wonder about that ....
I do think Google has all this and a bag of chips but has been very cautious from lessons learned about sharing what their AI can do.
A bit unfair. Google did this YEARS ago - and people lost their minds and freaked out like the world was going to end. Google assistant could call and make appointments for you and have natural conversation. I got to beta test it and it was insane. The problem was it was so good, people at a hair salon or plumber didn't know it wasn't a real person. Then they had it start to share it was Google Assistant and people hung up on it and it never rolled out as planned. Also people was terrified of nefarious uses for it.
Then there is the Google AI that one of it's developers tried telling the world was sentient. I still wonder about that ....
I do think Google has all this and a bag of chips but has been very cautious from lessons learned about sharing what their AI can do.
Because opt-in "mood tracking" by voice in a high-privacy Apple ecosystem is nothing like any of those things. And as you acknowledge, the technologies already exist. Whether they're abused is separate from whether they have benign use cases. The only legit criticism of benign applications is that they might "normalize" the technology and lower our resistance to malign applications. That's already true of location tracking, online data collection, and other forms of surveillance by which we make ourselves vulnerable.
Fine you say? Her improved dictation tells me she needs to take a first-grade grammar class - and while there was a time I would have diagnosed her as clinically retarded, I would upgrade her condition to brain damaged with the early onset of dementia.
Siri will never have a brain because she isn't built that way. What Apple hypes up in marking as on device AI with a neural engine (all marketing hype) is awful. She can't handle commands of any complexity and has to be asked things in very specific ways and even then gets it wrong 35% or more of the time.
The only reason I can imagine you think Siri is fine is that you haven't used anything else to know how bad she is.