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John Giannandrea out as Siri chief, Apple Vision Pro lead in (appleinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

ChatGPT is there to understand the language and context of the request

Like, how? Or why? I admit I don’t use Siri hardly at all but the most I wanted from it was making a note, calling someone, or getting a simple search back. ChatGPT only does the latter that I know of, and its answers are often poorly sourced and often very wrong.

I don’t know - based on that - why I’d let it near anything actually important.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

with chatgpt siri will just be way better at understanding everyday language. For example, if i am listening to an Apple Music playlist with a bunch of different artists and i say "hey siri play this album" it has no idea what I mean. ChatGPT easily handles context dependent language like that.

If you haven't used chatGPT you should try it and compare the results with siri. It's not perfect but it is way easier to get what you want.