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Please just fix Siri. It works so shitty that sometimes I use my phone to turn things on and off instead of using my HomePod mini. I don’t care if Siri can tell

Please just fix Siri. It works so shitty that sometimes I use my phone to turn things on and off instead of using my HomePod mini. I don’t care if Siri can tell me what the capital of the US is. I just want to reliably control my smart devices.

joshstrange 3y ago
Put a freaking GPT in front of Siri at a minimum. Train it on Siri abilities and let it take what I say and translate it to something Siri can understand so I don't have to speak like a robot. Even when I say it perfectly sometimes Siri just loses the thread completely, it's infuriating. Siri excels at like 2 things: setting reminders and setting timers. Anything else I don't really trust it for.
- syntaxing 3y ago
  Seriously, I have two rooms that sound slightly similar and it can never distinguish between the two and just defaults to one. I would enunciate the syllables hard and it doesn’t do anything.
- theshrike79 3y ago
  The issue with GPT-Siri is the amount of people (and journalists) who will jump on it on the nanosecond it's released to make it say something newsworthy (racist, factually incorrect etc.) Teaching an LLM is easy, making it safe for public consumption is _really_ hard.
  - 0xfae 3y ago
    Agreed. I'm hopeful that this not only with LLM's improve, but it will lose it's newsworthiness. Kinda like how "Tesla catches fire" used to be a constant headline, while "Regular car catches fire" wasn't. Yeah, if you say the right things to an LLM, it might say something weird. Just like your child might swear if you swear around them, or they might make up a fact and claim it's true. It's cute/funny/interesting, but really not special or newsworthy. But because AI is the new big thing, everyone is scrambling for a headline. I think people will get bored and move on.
  - dns_snek 3y ago
    > making it safe for public consumption is _really_ hard "Safe" in what sense? Is an LLM output which we recognize as racist or factually incorrect going to be directly responsible for the loss of life, serious injury or significant property damage? If LLMs can be considered unsafe for public consumption, then so are Twitter, Facebook, heck, even Wikipedia and Hacker News!

joshstrange 3y ago

Put a freaking GPT in front of Siri at a minimum. Train it on Siri abilities and let it take what I say and translate it to something Siri can understand so I don't have to speak like a robot. Even when I say it perfectly sometimes Siri just loses the thread completely, it's infuriating. Siri excels at like 2 things: setting reminders and setting timers. Anything else I don't really trust it for.

syntaxing 3y ago
Seriously, I have two rooms that sound slightly similar and it can never distinguish between the two and just defaults to one. I would enunciate the syllables hard and it doesn’t do anything.
theshrike79 3y ago
The issue with GPT-Siri is the amount of people (and journalists) who will jump on it on the nanosecond it's released to make it say something newsworthy (racist, factually incorrect etc.) Teaching an LLM is easy, making it safe for public consumption is _really_ hard.
- 0xfae 3y ago
  Agreed. I'm hopeful that this not only with LLM's improve, but it will lose it's newsworthiness. Kinda like how "Tesla catches fire" used to be a constant headline, while "Regular car catches fire" wasn't. Yeah, if you say the right things to an LLM, it might say something weird. Just like your child might swear if you swear around them, or they might make up a fact and claim it's true. It's cute/funny/interesting, but really not special or newsworthy. But because AI is the new big thing, everyone is scrambling for a headline. I think people will get bored and move on.
- dns_snek 3y ago
  > making it safe for public consumption is _really_ hard "Safe" in what sense? Is an LLM output which we recognize as racist or factually incorrect going to be directly responsible for the loss of life, serious injury or significant property damage? If LLMs can be considered unsafe for public consumption, then so are Twitter, Facebook, heck, even Wikipedia and Hacker News!