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I think Apple missed the boat on LLMs and was surprised by the success of ChatGPT. They are no doubt working on an LLM-based Siri now, but they don't rush thin
by newaccount74 3y ago
I think Apple missed the boat on LLMs and was surprised by the success of ChatGPT.
They are no doubt working on an LLM-based Siri now, but they don't rush things, and they don't preannounce things, so we'll only hear about it once it is ready. And they are probably going to use a different term for marketing it rather than using a generic term like LLM.
- kemayo 3y agoYeah, it seems plausible that they'll do it eventually, but it'll be "the new improved Siri, powered by the Neural Engine and transformer models".
- Workaccount2 3y agoSiri, now powered by Speech Synthesis Engine™.
- 9dev 3y agoNot sexy enough. My money’s on „Apple Voice“
- lolinder 3y agoI don't think they missed the boat, I think they recognize that LLMs aren't Apple-ready yet. They don't roll out half-baked products, and they won't be comfortable placing the big disclaimers that ChatGPT relies on. They'll incorporate LLMs if and when they can guarantee that what Siri says will be consistently accurate and extremely difficult to abuse.
- ryaneager 3y agoI agree, a quote I heard from a former Apple employee from the onboarding materials: “Apple doesn’t do things first, we do things right.”
- arrowsmith 3y agoOr in the case of the Touch Bar: they did it first and they did it wrong.
- flippy_flops 3y agoGenerally agree, but Siri is out and is awful
- jonplackett 3y agoSiri is the very definition of a half-baked product. Perhaps even quarter baked. and has been sitting there in the turned-off-oven for YEARS.
- filleokus 3y agoAgree that Siri isn't very good, and have been quite stagnant. It was released in 2011, that's 12 years ago!? Sure it's probably better now, but not 12 years of development better? But, at the same time. ChatGPT and the likes have a very different failure mode, that feels even less Appley. Like saying actual fake stuff, or saying it understand that you want to turn the AC on when your son leaves school coming home - but then just not doing it, or doing something completely different. With current Siri the failings are at least very obvious…
- tornato7 3y agoAnecdotally, I feel like Siri was usable to send text messages and emails when it first came out. Now it struggles to do even that.
- hbn 3y agoLLMs as they are now are not a drop-in replacement for what people use voice assistants for. If you ask it a question it doesn't know the answer to, "I don't know" is better than making up a bullshit answer. That could be potentially hazardous at iPhone levels of scale, giving everyone easy access to what appears to be a very intelligent AI chatbot without them understanding that it shouldn't be relied on for a lot of information people will ask it.
- dumpHero2 3y agoApple has consistently missed the boat on every major technical advancement, when compared to android. But when they do catch up, the quality is unmatched! Hoping the same with LLMs. I am sure they’re already working on it.