“Surely the lead on a failed pie-in-the-sky project will be able to turn around this entirely separate and currently failing pie-in-the-sky project!”
At least one of those guys is able to ship a product that does what it was advertised to do.
The problem with the Vision Pro is that no one wants to pay $4000 for what it does.
At least there’s a market for Siri.
I don’t think anyone believes the Vision Pro sucks as much as Siri.
The Vision Pro is a cool solution in search of a user need.
Voice control is a user need that Apple struggles to deliver solutions for.
Mike Rockwell, the Apple Vision Pro chief, has replaced John Giannandrea as the executive in charge of Siri, in an executive shakeup to try and rescue Apple’s flailing AI efforts.
The glacial rollout of Apple Intelligence and the lack of progress on Siri has not been a good look for Apple over the last year. Now, Apple is making a big change to get things back on track.
The glacial rollout is because it doesn’t work, and it can’t work. Stop trying so hard to jump in the shit puddle, apple.
this is silly, integrating Siri with ChatGPT is one of the ways AI will probably benefit apple users. If only just for parsing and contextually processing user requests better than it does now.
Sure, so long as it doesn’t mess up. Which is not possible. AI has no idea what a calendar is or what the word calendar means. And even if they do limit it to basic functionality like speech to text or scheduling, it already does most of that amd they’d be plowing millions into the slightest improvements.
On the other hand if they try to expand it and have it, say, plan a trip for you - it’s either not going to work or it’s going to have enough spectacular faults that it’s effectively unusable.
They’re falling for the hype even though they know it’s just hype.
AI has no idea what a calendar is or what the word calendar means.
Of course it does, where are you getting this from? This is what LLMs do, understand language. If you ask chaptGPT to add an event to your apple calendar it will say it doesn’t have access and give you instructions to do so. Apple is basically working on converting those instructions to interface with siri.
And even if they do limit it to basic functionality like speech to text or scheduling, it already does most of that amd they’d be plowing millions into the slightest improvements.
that’s not what the ChatGPT part will be doing. As you say, siri already handles that. ChatGPT is there to understand the language and context of the request, something LLMs do much much better than Siri now.
What LLMs do has nothing to do with understanding. There’s no there there.
i suspect we are going to have a semantic disagreement on what “understanding” means here.
ChatGPT is absolutely trained on the concept of calendars, that iPhones indeed have calendars, and how they work. It doesn’t need to “understand” what a calendar is on a deep epistemological level to process requests about them. If you ask chatGPT a question about calendars, it’ll answer you. So in that shallower sense LLMs absolutely “understand” what you mean, and that’s enough for chatGPT to help siri.
No, they really don’t. They answer you with words that are commonly found in conjunction with calendars. There is code in Siri that understands calendars, but the LLM part ain’t it. I have, ahem, firsthand knowledge of how Siri does this.
There is code in Siri that understands calendars, but the LLM part ain’t it.
yes i know, you are getting hung up on my colloquial use of “understand”. the LLM doesn’t need to “understand” it on that level because siri does. the LLM is there to parse the language and hand off to Siri. that’s all i’m saying.
