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Apple already made the smart “move” by moving very slowly in the “smart home” game, even though tech bloggers ripped them all the time whenever a new Echo or Go
by s3r3nity 3y ago
Apple already made the smart “move” by moving very slowly in the “smart home” game, even though tech bloggers ripped them all the time whenever a new Echo or Google Assistant device was released.
Now rather than deal with all this cruft, or deal with competing assistants (e.g. why the fuck does Google Assistant still exist if you have Bard???) Apple has the runway and the capital to make this type of LLM upgrade to Siri and the well-maintained ecosystem.
- kweingar 3y ago> why the fuck does Google Assistant still exist if you have Bard??? Because an integrated smart home assistant is a different problem domain than a general purpose chatbot. ChatGPT was a revolutionary technology that released less than a year ago and surprised the world with its capabilities. It’s going to take some time to integrate that technology into an ever-present integrated assistant that leverages your personal knowledge graph to take actions on your behalf, but they’re working on it. And Assistant imo has a huge leg up because of the investment in software integrations made in the pre-LLM world. Meanwhile when I ask Siri to show me photos of myself, it does an image search of the web and returns pictures of the word “myself”