Thomas Hoffmann
ChatGPT for Siri could be a reality sooner rather than later. This is indicated by a report from New York Times. In it, the mentioned media reports that the Cupertino company reportedly informed its workers about a new language model developed within their offices. Among the Apple teams working on the project we have the engineering team, and also those in charge of Siri.
This information would have been shared during the annual AI summit that the company held last month. Thus, they claimed to be testing language generation concepts “every week”. Because of this, some believe that it could be about a response to level Siri’s limited capabilities with ChatGPT. and other similar artificial intelligences.
As of today, Siri is one of the most limited virtual assistants on the market. Now that we have artificial intelligences like ChatGPT and its revamped GPT-4, or Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Apple will have to wise up if it wants to stay relevant in the technology race. According to statements to The New York Times by John Burkey, a former Apple engineer and former member of the Siri team, the voice assistant is based on “clunky code that took weeks to update with basic functions.”
The report doesn’t shed much more light on the future of Siri. This is why we still don’t know if Apple is actively trying to improve the virtual assistant, or if we will see an integration with this technology similar to ChatGPT.
Apple could eliminate Siri as we know it to integrate a model like ChatGPT.
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Siri’s cumbersome design makes it too complicated to integrate new features into the virtual assistant. In addition, the number of languages it has to handle makes it a kind of “snowball”, describes John Burkey. This difficulty to evolve is what led Siri to be relegated to the last positions in the race with Alexa and Google Assistant.
This is why, if Apple wanted to integrate ChatGPT in the form of a virtual assistant to its devices, They would probably have to rebuild Siri from scratch.. Of course, this is nothing more than a theory, so take it with a grain of salt.
Apple is still at the top of the game. However, the emergence of ChatGPT and the huge explosion that followed it has put those in Cupertino to reconsider their cards. But they are not alone. Others like Meta and Amazon have also stepped up their efforts to prevent Microsoft from cornering the market. artificial intelligence market in the distant future.