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OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
- zx10rse 2y agoWell I guess it is time to look around for new devices. This is by far the biggest mistake Apple made.
- jiggawatts 2y agoWhat would you prefer? Less capable products with fewer features? Or a Google product designed in collaboration with their advertising data hoovering team?
- solarkraft 2y agoOpenAI is such a controversial company and good competitors like Anthropic, who arguably align better with their brand, exist. That makes the deal so weird to me.
- akira2501 2y agoOpenAI has nothing of particularly high value. They're giving away the store right now just to claim the onboarding. This unsustainable game will end badly and soon.
- 101011 2y agoNothing of particularly high value, really?
- akira2501 2y agoIt's actually a beneficial feature that two people can look at a market and come to two completely different conclusions about it. Yes, I suspect that OpenAI has nothing of lasting competitive value, they're currently overvalued by entities who want their money back, and you can view their recent actions and partnerships through this lens without complication.
- impulser_ 2y agoIt's also weird because Anthropic models are just better for these tasks. Claude responses are almost always better than GPT4. I stopped using GPT4 because it would just yap on and on about things I don't want in the response. Claude 3 responses feel way more human like because it response with similar information a human would and not with a bunch of unneeded gibber. By the time this roles out at the end of the year who knows what models would be the best. Why bet on one company's models? We have seen how fast open source models have caught up to GPT4. Why put all your chips into one basket?
- pembrook 2y agoOpenAI/ChatGPT is the only household name in AI. Anthropic could be 10X better, and it still wouldn't matter to customers and public market investors as much as hearing the name 'ChatGPT.' Your mom has never heard of Anthropic. People think Google won search because they had the best search engine. Yes, they did for a brief period before others implemented similar methods to pagerank (which itself was ripped off from the Baidu founder). But the reason they won the market is because of endless media coverage around them building the brand into a household verb. After that, it was impossible for anyone to compete. "Just ask ChatGPT" will forever be the "Just Google it" of AI, and any media drama surrounding OpenAI only serves to cement that status.
- tmaly 2y agoImagine Apple being able to search for bad things on your phone using AI at the behest of some state or local government request
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- andrewinardeer 2y agoNow OpenAI has massive contracts with Microsoft and Apple. Two years ago we basically hadn't even raised an eyebrow at OpenAI.
- hurril 2y agoI love Apple products but I doubt this will become good.
- Narkov 2y agoEmbrace, extend, extinguish. Classic Microsoft-esq play from Apple.
- ZaraHabib 2y ago[dead]
- floppiplopp 2y agoLooking at the very pretty marketing page over at Apple's I can honestly say: I've not a single use case for this. I'm sure there's someone who has, but I have to jump through several mental hoops to even imagine how any of this might be barely helpful in very rare edge cases for me.
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- Xeyz0r 2y agoHope it will end well...
- candiddevmike 2y agoIs Siri becoming another "frontend" to ChatGPT?
- visarga 2y agoIt was cool how you can just ask Siri to connect you to another LLM.
- quintes 2y agoI found some web results that may be useful if you ask me again from your iphone
- shironandon 2y agofor most requests.. yes.
- talldayo 2y ago> The ChatGPT integration, powered by GPT-4o, will come to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS later this year. Jensen Huang must be having the time of his life right now. Nvidia's relationship with Apple went from pariah to prodigal son, real fast.
- rldjbpin 2y agogiven their history, he would only be satisfied when apple is forced to directly rely on nvidia hardware. current situation is like nvidia devs using macs at work giving mr cook some satisfaction or something.
- dereg 2y agoIf we know anything about Apple, they're going after Nvidia. If anyone can pull it off, it's going to be them.
- ThinkBeat 2y agoI am of course wrong frequently, but I cannot see how that would happen. If they create cpu/gpus that are faster/better than what Nvidia sells, but they only sell them as part of a Mac desktop or laptop systems it wont really compete. For that they would have to develop servers that has a mass amount of whatever it is or sell the chips in the same manner Nvidia does today. I dont see that future for Apple. Microsoft / Google / or other major cloud companies would do extremely well if they could develop it and just keep it as a major win for their cloud products. Azure is running OpenAI as far as I have heard. Imagine if M$ made a crazy fast GPU/whatever. It would be a huge competitive advantage. Can it happen? I dont think so.
- talldayo 2y agoWell, good luck to Apple then. Hopefully this attempt at killing Nvidia goes better than the first time they tried, or when they tried and gave-up on making OpenCL. I just don't understand how they can compete on their own merits without purpose-built silicon; the M2 Ultra doesn't shine a candle to a single GB200. Once you consider how Nvidia's offerings are networked with Mellanox and CUDA universal memory, it feels like the only advantage Apple has in the space is setting their own prices. If they want to be competitive, I don't think they're going to be training Apple models on Apple Silicon.
- summarity 2y agoIt’s an interesting vote of confidence in OpenAI’s maturity (from a scale and tech perspective) to integrate it as a system wide, third-party dependency available to all users for free.
- willsmith72 2y ago"interesting" is the right adjective. openai's reliability is worse than the typical 2-person startup, but the quality of their ml is just that good.
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- machinekob 2y agoNvidia stock going to grow another 10% after that.
- durpleDrank 2y agoKind of funny that we got a double LLM situation happening lol.
- jaskaransainiz 2y agoClippy crying
- mupuff1234 2y agoGOOG stock seems to be ok with the announcement.
- kccqzy 2y agoI'm convinced that GOOG has the necessary engineering chops to pull the same thing off (or to put it less charitably, copy Apple), but hitherto they were hindered by bad product manager decisions leading them to engineer the wrong thing.
- kernal 2y agoAnd why wouldn't it be? The strain on Microsoft servers and the free use of their resources by iOS users with very little, if any, in return is a win for Apple. Not so much for OpenAI or Microsoft.
- quintes 2y agoI just need Apple to be clearly indicating which settings will completely disable this.
- xylol 2y agoSome for now, none in the future I fear.
- thepasswordis 2y agoI will disable it as soon as it tells me how to also permanently disable live photos.
- noahtallen 2y agoSettings > Camera > Preserve Settings. Switch "Live Photo" to on. Then disable live photos when taking a picture.
- lxgr 2y agoFrom the announcement, it seems like it's opt-in, not opt-out: > Apple users are asked before any questions are sent to ChatGPT,
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: Introducing Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636844
- blueelephanttea 2y agoIMO this really feels like the Facebook / Twitter integration from early iOS. That only lasted a few years. Apple clearly thinks it needs a dedicated LLM service atm. But still thinks it is only supplemental as they handle a bunch of the core stuff without it. And require explicit user consent to use OpenAI. And Apple clearly views it as a partial commodity since they even said they plan to add others. Tough to bet against OpenAI right now...but this deal does not feel like a 10 year deal...
- halotrope 2y agoyeah somehow it reminded me of the fb integration too. we‘ll see how well it works in practice. i was hoping for them to show the sky demo with the new voice mode that openai recently demoed
- cyanydeez 2y agoApple is also claiming they are gonna go privacy protecting AI. I'm quite skeptical of Apple.
- nsonha 2y agoDoubt that Apple can ever come up with a better LLM than OpenAI's, they stopped trying to make Siri as good as Google Assistant after 10+ years now. I don't think they are that good at Cloud or ML compared to other big techs
- EasyMark 2y agoCouldn’t it be they’re just feeling out the partnership without going all in?
- lanza 2y agoDitto. They'll use it now while they stand to benefit and in 3 years they'll be lambasting OpenAI publicly for not being private enough with data and pretend that they never had anything to do with them.
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- vessenes 2y agoUm, wow. The major question in my mind: did Apple pay, or did OpenAI pay? (A-la google for search). Apple is not going to lose control of the customer, ever, so on balance I would guess this is either not a forever partnership or that OpenAI won’t ultimately get what they want out of it. I’m very curious to see how much will be done on device and how much will go to gpt4o out of the gate. I’m also curious if they’re using Apple intelligence for function calling and routing in device; I assume so. Extremely solid offerings from Apple today in general.
- wmf 2y agoApple is definitely paying because they don't let OpenAI save anything.
- layer8 2y agoYeah, I wonder how many subscribers OpenAI will lose.
- kernal 2y agoI don't believe that. Apple is in the driver's seat in this negotiation. I believe OpenAI wanted Apple as a jewel in their crown and bent over backwards to get them to sign. I don't see how OpenAI makes any money off of this, but I do see them losing a lot of money as iOS users slam their service for free as they eat the costs.
- ec109685 2y agoThey’re letting OpenAI upsell to a professional version, so there is a lot in it for OpenAI to offer this for free, even without the data.
- mvdtnz 2y agoI still don't know a single person who wants this crap. I don't want "AI" in my web browser, I don't want it in my email client, I don't want it on my phone, I just don't want it. And it feels like everyone I speak to agrees! So who is this all for?
- whimsicalism 2y agomaybe you come on too strong for people who disagree to voice it personally i like it and want it, except in places where it is shoehorned
- inferiorhuman 2y agoConsidering how AI folks tend to start foaming at the mouth like Elon stans anytime someone doesn't shower Altman or AI with praise, I doubt it.
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- myheadasplode 2y agoI don't really care for AI in google search results or email. It's often wrong and not what I'm looking for. I would like a much better Siri, so hopefully that's part of what we get.
- incognito124 2y agoThe holders of the shares?
- trustno2 2y agoIt did help me to translate nursery rhymes for my kid from one language to another while they still rhyme and mean approximately the same thing. It sucked in gpt-3 but 4o (or whatever is the latest one) is actually really great for that. It excels in "transfering style from one thing to another thing" basically. However every time I asked it a factual thing that I couldn't find on Google, it was always hilariously wrong
- rvz 2y agoQuite unsurprising that the prediction of a hybrid solution turned out to be true. [0] The plan is still the same. Eventually Apple will have Apple Intelligence all in-house and race everyone to $0. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40630897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40630897
- jspaetzel 2y agoSiri now powered by OpenAI powered by Microsoft Azure
- daft_pink 2y agoFrom watching it, it seems like it’s just a kit type integration as it’s super clear that it’s going to a partner and they said they may allow other partners.
- rgrmrts 2y agoI really hope so. I don’t trust OpenAI and I’d really rather not have any integrations with them on any of my devices.
- zug_zug 2y agoThis sounds like exactly what I wanted. There have been a number of times I've been in the car and wanting to ask Siri something it couldn't handle has been a lot e.g. "What state am I in, and how far am I to the border to the state I'm going to cross next, and can I pump my own gas on each state I'm driving through?" Though a bit of that is premised on whether it could extract information from google maps.
- jjulius 2y ago>... and can I pump my own gas on each state I'm driving through? Huh? Seems like an odd thing to feel the need to ask, as up until last year, the answer was always, "Only if you're driving through Oregon or New Jersey". Now, you're only unable to pump your own in NJ.
- akira2501 2y ago> "What state am I in, and how far am I to the border to the state I'm going to cross next, and can I pump my own gas on each state I'm driving through?" What kind of trip was this where these were pertinent questions? Couldn't you have just rephrased most of them? "What is my current location?" "Show maps." "Which states don't allow you to pump your own gas?"
- EasyMark 2y agoI thought Oregon was the only state with “pump gas for you”laws?
- Reubachi 2y agoNew Jersey is another off the top of my head
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- okdood64 2y agoCarplay Siri functionality is currently neutered. A lot of times it won't answer more complex questions that would otherwise be answered without Carplay.
- willis936 2y agoSigns of healthy competition and certainly no reason to claim a tech monopoly.
- karaterobot 2y ago> Privacy protections are built in when accessing ChatGPT within Siri and Writing Tools—requests are not stored by OpenAI, and users’ IP addresses are obscured. Does anybody believe Apple will not be able to know who sent a given request, and that OpenAI won't be able to use the data in the request for more or less anything they want? I read statements like this and just flat-out don't believe them anymore.
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- RedComet 2y ago"Obscured" sounds weak and deliberately vague on their part.
- ec109685 2y agoThey have tech to obscure IPs in a way that prevents any one entity from being able to de-obfuscate: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602
- karaterobot 2y agoI guess my point is that removing an IP address does not make something anonymous.
- breadwinner 2y agoMy biggest disappointment was that Apple said nothing about leveraging GPT-4 to improve voice recognition in iMessage. Voice recognition of ChatGPT is incredibly accurate when compared to iOS. ChatGPT almost never gets anything wrong, while iMessage/iOS voice recognition is extremely frustrating. So much so that I sometimes dictate to ChatGPT then cut & paste into iMessage.
- noahtallen 2y agoThey did talk about Siri being better at voice recognition using Apple's own on-device models, so I imagine that will eventually apply more broadly.
- breadwinner 2y agoOn-device models will not be big enough in the near future. What makes ChatGPT so awesome at recognition is that their model is huge, and so no matter how obscure the topic of the dictation, ChatGPT knows what you're talking about.
- noahtallen 2y agoApple also talked about their private compute cloud, which allows larger models and workflows to integrate with local AI models. It sounds like they will figure out which features require bigger models and which don't. So I think there is a lot of room for what you're mentioning in the future of this AI platform. Plus, they talk about live phone call transcriptions, voice transcription in notes, the ability to correct words as you speak, contextual conversations in siri, etc. It 100% sounds like better voice recognition is coming
- extr 2y agoPretty sure transcription is done locally on Pixel phones and it's pretty good. Not as good as ChatGPT, but most of the way there. If current iOS is like a 50, Pixel is like a 90 and OpenAI is like 98.
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- processing 2y ago"Siri add an alarm for an appointment for the dentist tomorrow at 10" Sets appointment for 10pm Will the Siri team be fired or are they in charge of openAI integration?
- nullwriter 2y agoIts given that a dentist appointment is never usually at 10PM - this doesn't seem probable. LLMs are good at generalizing
- pjerem 2y agoAnd also, that would still be more useful than the current situation where Siri would just answer that it can not give you the weather forecast because there is no city named "Appointment at 10". Or it may create an appointment at Athens.
- empath75 2y agoSiri without it isn't though. It's so garbage as to be useless.
- matsz 2y agoSwitching to 24-hour clock solves that problem. Personally, 12h clock always confused me, so I wouldn't blame Siri.
- layer8 2y agoSiri still uses AM/PM for me when speaking, despite having a 24-hour clock configured.
- philsnow 2y ago~~This is not the direction I was hoping Apple would go with AI. With all the neural this and that bits baked into apple silicon, it has seemed [0] for a while that Apple wanted to run all these workloads locally, but this partnership seems like a significant privacy backslide. Another comment in this thread said something about they’re using b Apple silicon for these workloads, but didn’t give an indication of whether that silicon lives in Apple datacenters or OpenAI ones. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725167~~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725167~~ edit: I should have mentioned that I didn’t have a chance to watch the video yet; a reply to my comment mentioned that it’s addressed in the video so I’ll go watch that later
- astrange 2y agoWatch the keynote, it's all clearly explained and you don't need to learn about it from HN comments.
- noahtallen 2y agoI don't think this is a fair take. It sounds like the vast majority of the new AI features (including the local personal context for Siri, the various text/image editing features, better photo categorization, and the list goes on) are all local, on-device models, which can, if needed, use Apple's private cloud. That requires public researcher verification of server software for iOS to even talk to it. (Allegedly :)) The OpenAI partnership is seemingly only if Siri decides it doesn't have the full context needed to answer. (E.g. if you ask something very creative/generative.) At that point, Siri says "hey, chatGPT might be better at answering this, do you consent to me sending your prompt to them?" and then you get to choose. Apple's partnership also seems to include the various settings that prevent OpenAI from tracking/training on the prompts sent in. Honestly, that more creative side of genAI is not as interesting in the full context of Apple Intelligence. The real power is coming from the local, personal context, where Siri can deduce context based on your emails, messages, calendar events, maps, photos, etc. to really deeply integrate with apps. (Allegedly!) And that part is not OpenAI.
- mkoubaa 2y agoYay more shitgpt all over my life
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- solardev 2y agoI'm confused now... Apple's other announcement today discussed on-device AI. So what sorts of queries will be on-device and what will be sent to OpenAI? How does this distinction appear in the UI?
- sunnybeetroot 2y agoIt’s in the keynote video.
- solardev 2y agoAh, thanks. Not in a place where I can watch video right now, but will check it out later.
- noahtallen 2y agoI think the headlines are REALLY muddying things. From watching the Keynote, most of Apple Intelligence is their own stuff, mostly on-device. Siri explicitly asks you if you want to use chatGPT to answer a query. It does so when it thinks chatGPT will have a better answer. It sounds like that will be for very creative/generative types of things like "please create a 4 course meal with xyz foods," at which point Siri asks you if you want to use chatGPT. It will be very clear, according to Apple.
- lxgr 2y agoThat said, the Apple Intelligence vs. OpenAI distinction seems much clearer than the Apple cloud vs. local distinction, which I find somewhat concerning. Sure, the Apple cloud is ultra-secure and private and all, but I'd still like to know what happens where without having to test it myself by enabling airplane mode and seeing what still works.
- noahtallen 2y agoYeah, that's a great point. At the same time, it only takes a couple YouTubers/researchers to do some testing for us to know the answer
- Hippocrates 2y agoI was surprised how little they are leaning on OpenAI. Most of the impressive integrations that actually look useful are on-device or in their private cloud. OpenAIs ChatGPT was relegated to a corner of Siri for answering "google queries", if you grant it permission. This seems like an L for OpenAI, not being a bigger part of the architecture (and I'm glad).
- extr 2y agoAgreed. The rumors beforehand made it sound Apple and OpenAI would practically be merging. This felt like a fig leaf so Apple could say you can access SOTA models from you iPhone. But for me personally, the deep integration with the ecosystem + semantic index are way way more interesting.
- aixpert 2y agounfortunately Apple's own model is GPT 3.5 class which is way less intelligent than GPT 4
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- fungiblecog 2y agothis will work about as well as the tedious fad for chatbots a few years ago
- 35mm 2y agoAnyone know more details about Apple’s servers? “…server-based models that run on dedicated Apple silicon servers.”
- wmf 2y agoIt could be as simple as a 1U version of the Mac Studio.
- bartuu 2y agoI wonder, if Apple made a deal with Open AI, how did they solve the privacy issue?
- resource_waste 2y agoPeople who are getting your data: >Apple >OpenAI >Bill Gates by proxy >US government >??? Also, before anyone says "Oh they'd never do that!". Live in reality. They were already caught with PRISM.
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- cletus 2y agoThis is one of those things that seems like a good idea but is really an existential threat to OpenAI. Having a single extremely large customer gives that customer a disproportionate amount of power over your business. Apple can decide one day to simply stop paying you because, hey, they can afford the years of litigation to resolve it. Can you weather than storm? Famously, Benjamin Moore (the paint company) maintains its own stores. They have not (and probably will not) sell their products through Home Depot or Lowe's. Why? This exact reason. A large customer can dictate terms and hold you over a barrel if they so choose. AI/ML is something Apple cares about. They've designed their own chips around speeding up ML processing on the device. A partnerhship with OpenAI is clearly a stopgap measure. They will absolutely gut OpenAI if they have the opportunity and they will absolutely replace OpenAI when they can. Apple just doesn't like relying on partners for core functionality. It's why Apple ditched Google Maps for the (still inferior) Apple Maps. The only reason they can't replace Google Search is because Google pays them a boatload of money and they've simply been unable to. This may seem like a good move for OpenAI but all they've done is let the foxes run the hen house.
- philwelch 2y agoOpenAI already had a “single extremely large customer”: Microsoft. In fact the Apple deal is the first sign they’re not just a de facto Microsoft subsidiary.
- FanaHOVA 2y agoIs there a single citation for anything you just said? > Apple can decide one day to simply stop paying you because, hey, they can afford the years of litigation to resolve it. OpenAI and Microsoft also can do the same. Microsoft would be ecstatic to hurt Apple in any way. Also Apple has also no history of doing this with any of the providers they use. > Benjamin Moore (the paint company) maintains its own stores. They have not (and probably will not) sell their products through Home Depot or Lowe's. Why? Because Home Depot has their own brand, Behr. Each Behr color explicitly says what Benjamin Moore color it's copying, and they take 100% of the revenue as a direct alternative. Do you have any sources on this being a Benjamin Moore decision? > It's why Apple ditched Google Maps for the (still inferior) Apple Maps. How do you define "still inferior"? How many times a day do you use Apple Maps? Do you have any benchmarks that compare the two?
- hu3 2y agoMicrosoft owns 49 percent of OpenAI. That must be some really detailed 100+ pages contract. I bet Microsoft is mentioned multiple times with things to the effect of: "Under no condition is Microsoft allowed to access any of the data coming from iPhones."
- astrange 2y agoNo one is allowed to access any of that data. Microsoft is mostly a cloud company these days though, and they're already an Apple vendor.
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- extr 2y agoHonestly I was surprised at how limited the ChatGPT integration seems to be. It felt like they 80/20'd AI with the onboard models + semantic index, but also wanted to cover that last 20% with some kind of SOTA cloud model. But they didn't necessarily NEED to.
- layer8 2y agoThey need to in order to not look second-class in terms of chat capabilities. On the other hand, they want to make it clear when you are using ChatGPT, probably not just for privacy reasons, but also so that people blame ChatGPT and not Apple when it gets things wrong.
- extr 2y agoThis may just be me because I'm a heavy ChatGPT user as-is, but I've had my fill of chat capabilities. What I really want is the context awareness, which is what they seemingly delivered on without OpenAI's help!
- layer8 2y agoNote that this is announced as coming in beta this fall, which means they are currently well pre-beta. I would curb my expectations about how well it will work.
- cdme 2y agoI hate everything about this. Curious how blocking OpenAI's TLDs at the DNS level will go.
- philodeon 2y agoIt’s an interesting choice to announce a brand-new standard for privacy guarantees regarding AI/ML queries… …then announce a partnership with ChatGPT.
- ricksunny 2y agoSo, pick your Apple partnership long-arc: 1. Apple-Google[Search] 2. Apple-PaloAltoSemi 3. Apple-PortalPlayer
- JeremyHerrman 2y ago> Privacy protections are built in when accessing ChatGPT within Siri and Writing Tools—requests are not stored by OpenAI, and users’ IP addresses are obscured. Users can also choose to connect their ChatGPT account, which means their data preferences will apply under ChatGPT’s policies. So does this mean that by default, a random Apple user won't have their ChatGPT requests used for OpenAI training, but a paying ChatGPT Plus customer will? Does this also mean that if I connect my ChatGPT Plus account that my data will be used for training? It just seems strange to have a lower bar for privacy for paying customers vs users acquired via a partnership. (yes I'm aware that the "Temporary Chat" feature or turning off memory will prevent data being used for training)
- ec109685 2y agoYou can permanently disable OpenAI from training with your chat data for your account: “To disable model training, navigate to your profile icon on the bottom-left of the page and select Settings > Data Controls, and disable “Improve the model for everyone." While this is disabled, new conversations won’t be used to train our models”
- knodi123 2y agoOh my god, finally. I can't get over how bad Siri is, compared to Alexa and Google.
- getpost 2y agoGPT4o access is a handy feature, but, what I was hoping to hear about is an improvement in Siri's language "understanding." In today's WWDC presentation, there were a few small examples of Siri improvements, such as an ability to maintain context, e.g., 'Add her flight arrival time to my calendar,' wherein Siri knows who "her" refers to. In my day-to-day experience with Siri, it's clear Siri doesn't have the kind of ability to understand language that LLMs provide. It still feels like clever son-of-Eliza hacks with stock phrases. If your utterance doesn't match with a pre-programmed stock phrase, it doesn't work. The other day I said something like "Play the song you played before the one I asked you to skip," and Siri didn't seem to know what I wanted. OTOH, GPT4o can easily handle statements like that. Does anyone know to what extent Siri's underlying language models are being upgraded?
- stbenjam 2y ago> In today's WWDC presentation, there were a few small examples of Siri improvements, such as an ability to maintain context, e.g., 'Add her flight arrival time to my calendar,' wherein Siri knows who "her" refers to. Didn't Cortana do this? Pretty underwhelming in 2024.
- asdasdsddd 2y agoSiri just feels like, tokenize input => run classifier over hardcoded actions.
- shepherdjerred 2y agoI don't think these actions are hardcoded with the App Intents framework. Even today you can ask Siri to run arbitrary shortcuts via custom keywords.
- shepherdjerred 2y agoI agree, this is the biggest annoyance with voice assistants today. The good news is that, as you noted, the technology to interpret complex/unclear requests is definitely already here today with ChatGPT. I think that Apple demoed this today where the presenter changed her mind mid-sentence during a weather query. I'm hopeful that means they've added a LLM to interpret the intent of user requests.