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Maybe I’m missing something obvious but shouldn’t the SIRI “platform” already be ready to integrate LLMs as just yet another processing API behind the scenes?

Maybe I’m missing something obvious but shouldn’t the SIRI “platform” already be ready to integrate LLMs as just yet another processing API behind the scenes? Like why wouldn’t Siri with GPT-n behind it just totally crush anything that any other possible competitor could do? Distribution and adoption of SIRI was complete over a decade ago. I just don’t see how anyone could compete on a voice assistant tool with apple and google. I mean I WISH it was possible but the reality is different.

throwaway4aday 3y ago
GPT models are too capable. Even if you did a good job of integrating it with Siri it would still occasionally make a mistake due to some random confluence of user input, garbled voice to text, and system prompt data. Over a large enough user base this is bound to happen often enough to be a problem i.e. generate bad press. Microsoft is steaming ahead with this because they've mastered the art of dealing with bad press from buggy software, they can afford to have it go wrong occasionally. Apple on the other hand has their premium brand aura to preserve (whether deserved or not) and so they'll be late comers to this, having to put safetybelt on top of safetybelt to keep incidents to the barest minimum.
- AndrewKemendo 3y ago
  Fully concur with this take and I think that it describes why Apple would be slower and more cautious in the rollout. The end result is still the same in the long term, and that they’re going to eventually be able to figure out systemic ways to include LLMs and work to improve them to get around existing constraints.
- theshrike79 3y ago
  Exactly. Bard and whatever the Bing AI is can be accidentally racist now and again. People will just shrug and go "it's beta / it's just buggy Microsoft" and go about their day. Get AI Siri to say something racist and it's front page news everywhere in the world.

throwaway4aday 3y ago

GPT models are too capable. Even if you did a good job of integrating it with Siri it would still occasionally make a mistake due to some random confluence of user input, garbled voice to text, and system prompt data. Over a large enough user base this is bound to happen often enough to be a problem i.e. generate bad press. Microsoft is steaming ahead with this because they've mastered the art of dealing with bad press from buggy software, they can afford to have it go wrong occasionally. Apple on the other hand has their premium brand aura to preserve (whether deserved or not) and so they'll be late comers to this, having to put safetybelt on top of safetybelt to keep incidents to the barest minimum.

AndrewKemendo 3y ago
Fully concur with this take and I think that it describes why Apple would be slower and more cautious in the rollout. The end result is still the same in the long term, and that they’re going to eventually be able to figure out systemic ways to include LLMs and work to improve them to get around existing constraints.
theshrike79 3y ago
Exactly. Bard and whatever the Bing AI is can be accidentally racist now and again. People will just shrug and go "it's beta / it's just buggy Microsoft" and go about their day. Get AI Siri to say something racist and it's front page news everywhere in the world.