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This is a nonstory, tbh. The reality is Apple deeply cares about releasing a polished product. Releasing an LLM-based Siri that makes really bad gaffes would b
by alfalfasprout 4y ago
This is a nonstory, tbh.
The reality is Apple deeply cares about releasing a polished product. Releasing an LLM-based Siri that makes really bad gaffes would be a PR nightmare. Google already suffered that when it opened up Bard despite pushback from folks working on it.
The fundamentals of LLM architectures, training, etc. are now no longer "secret sauce" tons of major tech companies are working on in-house LLMs at this point. I don't see Apple as not having a future for Siri, it's rather a silly conclusion that doesn't have much behind it at all
- smt88 4y ago> The reality is Apple deeply cares about releasing a polished product This is absolutely untrue in the Tim Cook era. Apple releases buggy hardware and software all the time. This article talks about how they released a bad product and know it. Siri is significantly worse than both Google Assistant and Alexa, and even those are comically bad sometimes. Bugs in iOS and Siri give me rage aneurysms every single day (coming from a long-time Android user who just wanted a small phone).
- mrguyorama 4y agoIf you think this is limited to Tim Cook, you weren't paying attention. Every single release of macbooks had issues with heat killing GPUs and similar and apple always denied it being a design defect. Didn't steve jobs sit behind antennagate and bendgate?
- smt88 4y agoThe software was significantly more polished in the Jobs era. I don't know why, because it's not like it's something Jobs obsessed over more than Cook. Apple just doesn't seem to have "good software" in their DNA.
- pschuegr 4y agoYep. The reality is that Apple cares deeply about slick marketing. I've had great experiences with Apple hardware, personally, but the software frequently makes me shake my head.