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Apple also entered the hall.

"Siri is too stupid to compete with ChatGPT! "

This is what John Burkey, a former Apple engineer, said of Apple's voice assistant Siri in an interview with the New York Times.

He further said that "Siri can't be a 'creative assistant' like ChatGPT, and clumsy code makes it difficult to add new features." "

Burkey worked on Siri improvements in 2014 and left Apple in 2016.

When Microsoft is making a big hit in combining GPT-4 with its own products, Google and Meta are not far behind, but Apple has not yet done so in this AI trend.

In fact, it is reported that Siri's team has begun testing artificial intelligence language generation models internally.

Siri is so stupid that Apple's Siri can answer simple questions like "what's the weather like?" and "can you sing this song?" all by extracting a large number of words from the database.

It can be seen that Siri can only understand part of the human request.

This means that engineers must add new words to the database to extend their functionality.

It is understood that Siri is essentially a command-and-control system, and its clumsy design makes it difficult for engineers to add new functions.

Burkey says Siri's database contains a large list of phrases from nearly 24 languages, making it "a huge snowball".

To add new words, such a simple update requires the entire Siri database to be rebuilt, which can take up to six weeks, because a comprehensive review is essential.

It may take about a year to integrate more advanced features like ChatGPT, such as new search tools.

Furthermore, even upgrading the basic functionality of Siri can take weeks because of the complexity of the code.

Apple is not indifferent to the rise of chatbots such as ChatGPT.

In February, Apple's annual artificial intelligence summit focused on current artificial intelligence tools and large language models.

According to the New York Times, many teams, including engineers working on Siri, regularly test "language generation concepts"every week."

In addition, Apple has tested the new framework of "Siri Natural language Generation" in tvOS 16.4, internally codenamed "Bobcat".

Engineers use natural language generation technology to tell jokes on Siri on Apple TV and are also testing how to use language generation for timers.

Although the new language generation features are currently only enabled on Apple TV, 9to5Mac reveals that the code for these features is also included in iPhone, iPad, Mac, HomePod, and Apple TV.

It's just that at present, there are no other devices enabled except Apple TV.

Currently, Apple has not disclosed its work on language generation AI.

In addition to test language generation AI, Apple launched a program in January to provide digital narration on the Apple Books to automatically generate high-quality AI voice-over audio from written text.

This shows that Apple is already exploring the use case of generative AI. At this year's WWDC, Apple will introduce its efforts in these areas.

From admiration to teasing, Siri has lost its halo. In 2011, Apple executives unveiled the fifth-generation iPhone in a crowded auditorium on a rainy Tuesday in San Francisco.

Although the phone looks exactly the same as the previous version, it has a new feature: Siri, a virtual voice assistant.

Its debut became the biggest highlight of the press conference, causing cheers from the audience.

Scott Forstall, then head of Apple's software department, pressed iPhone's home button, summoned Siri and asked him a question.

What's the Paris time? What is mitosis (mitosis)?

At the scene, Siri showed off his skills: "08:16 in the evening Paris time" and "cell division, and the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes."

It also lists 14 well-received Greek restaurants, five of which are located in Palo Alto, California.

Three years later, Amazon's Alexa first tried to cry, and two years later, Google Assistant arrived late.

However, the technology has largely stalled, and talking assistants have become a laughingstock, including a smart speaker for the elderly on Saturday Night Live in 2018.

That is, Siri has been improved several times, compared with the current "omnipotent" ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing,Siri has already lost its original halo, functional chicken ribs, and even reduced to a joke in a talk show.

Even Microsoft CEO Nadella said in an interview that Siri and Amazon's Alexa, as well as their own Cortana, are as stupid as stone.

Adam Cheyer, the creator of Siri, also said that ChatGPT can write papers and code, which makes existing voice assistants look stupid.

At the same time, Apple users on Reddit launched discussions to express their dissatisfaction, "Why is Siri so stupid" and "is Siri getting stupid every year?"

In fact, not only Siri has been reprimanded, but also Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant. The division is still holding up after losing more than $3 billion in revenue last year.

Although these voice assistant products and ChatGPT chat robots have similar functions, they are essentially based on different types of artificial intelligence models.

Chatbots are powered by large language models, which are trained systems that can identify and generate text based on a large number of data sets crawled from the network.

By contrast, Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant work through so-called command and control systems.

They can understand a limited list of questions and requests, such as "what's the weather like in New York City?" "or" turn on the bedroom light ". If the user asks the virtual assistant to do something that is not in the code, the robot will simply say that it cannot help.

All of these companies have tried to upgrade voice assistants, but this kind of technology seems to be far more difficult than generative artificial intelligence.

Former Amazon and Google executives, "like Amazon, Google finds it difficult to generate high revenue from Google Assistant." "

However, Amazon and Google said they would continue to develop their voice assistant features.

Reference:

Https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/siri-alexa-google-assistant-artificial-intelligence.html

Https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/16/apple-testing-siri-natural-language-generating-chatgpt/

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: Xin Zhiyuan (ID:AI_era)

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