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Apple Experimenting With 'Apple GPT' AI Tool, No Launch Planned Yet
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Apple GPT, coming to Apple support near you. Thousands upon thousands of 1st and 2nd line tech support will be replaced by an AI bot and when the AI bot thinks it cannot handle the call it will switch over to a human in tech support.
Siri isn't AI tho (it's completely human curated), so I don't know what one has to do with the other?
Just for comparison (apples and peaches, I know ;-)
You can already run a somewhat downsized but still very capable GPT on a Raspi 4 locally. So keeping it on device should not be too difficult to achieve on a much more powerful iPhone i.e.
Wow, I didn’t know that. Then, I guess it’s totally possible. Thanks for the data.
I really think on device processing is the way to go for many of this features, and thankfully Siri is starting to work on device for many of its functions.
Now searching "Imagine Siri as a GPT lol" on the web. Here's what I found.
I'm gonna let Apple GPT AI write all of my comments from now on. (Seems like every idea man comes up with is designed to make us stupid and lazier.)
Guys, it's simple - They'll use it internally on the cloud, and then when they're able to create a model that is able to run on an iPhone, THAT's when it's suddenly a new Siri feature.
That's when you can ask Siri to send your boss the new proposal you made last night in Pages, but forgot to email it.
Or you ask Siri for all the pictures of dogs that were taken on rainy days while also on vacation.
Or you ask it to create a shopping list for a Lasagna despite not specifying the ingredients.
It's not new that they can make a GPT model, it'll be new that they're able to run it on-device because they create the chips, the model and the interfaces between the model and the apps and ecosystem.
Meanwhile, on Android you'll have to send not only the request to the cloud, but all of your files, since it won't be able to access the files on your device from the model running on the cloud.
That's when you can ask Siri to send your boss the new proposal you made last night in Pages, but forgot to email it.
Or you ask Siri for all the pictures of dogs that were taken on rainy days while also on vacation.
Or you ask it to create a shopping list for a Lasagna despite not specifying the ingredients.
It's not new that they can make a GPT model, it'll be new that they're able to run it on-device because they create the chips, the model and the interfaces between the model and the apps and ecosystem.
Meanwhile, on Android you'll have to send not only the request to the cloud, but all of your files, since it won't be able to access the files on your device from the model running on the cloud.
I really hope that means they’ll improve the current Siri as well. Siri is pretty good for controlling simple stuff on the phone such as setting alarms, notes & reminders, making calls, etc. But when asked about scientific questions and stuff like that, most of the time she’ll either say “I found this on the web” or “Hm, I’m not sure I understand”. So I’d say it’s a good assistant for controlling stuff on the phone, but definitely not a reliable source of information.
Though I hope they at least make it more compatible with third-party apps, because right now it can mostly do stuff only through the native Apple apps.
But let’s not ignore the fact that the current ChatGPT is not perfect either. Some of the info it provides are outdated, and that’s all because it needs to be trained and updated from time to time. Not to mention, it also provides inaccurate info sometimes.
Though I hope they at least make it more compatible with third-party apps, because right now it can mostly do stuff only through the native Apple apps.
But let’s not ignore the fact that the current ChatGPT is not perfect either. Some of the info it provides are outdated, and that’s all because it needs to be trained and updated from time to time. Not to mention, it also provides inaccurate info sometimes.
How is Apple lagging here? I seemed to have missed the Google Assistant and Alexa announcements on shipping GPT functionality.
A simpler "general" model would still probably require them to double shipping RAM over the 14, and may still have performance issues. I don't think such a generalized model would ship soon - you'll continue to get comparatively simple specialized models to spin up as needed (text correction) or run in the background (fall/workout detection, "Hey Siri" detection).
Why am I suddenly imagining a massive G4 Cube floating in space, the crew all wearing Vision Pro headsets?
Take a look at the incredible capabilities of Microsoft Copilot both on Windows 11 and Office. That’s just the beginning. And yeah, Google is also lagging here, but in my opinion, even without a generative language behind, their assistant is better than Siri.
The race of generative language AI has began and I only hope Apple is working on its own technology, even if it’s just as a barebones to other features and not a chat bot.
I’m curious. What does Siri have to do with screen recordings? Do you just mean using Siri to start a screen recording?
they announced that they were using a Transformer for text prediction in typing and in speach to text but they didn’t explicitly tie that to Siri. You can see that those things would be useful in a new Sir but Apple did not connect those dots.
I would expect Apple to use Transformer/LLM AI to enhance specific functions and activities in their devices. I don’t expect them to just put out a general “chat bot” like ChatGPT that would be used to search for information and bring back something that looks like an answer.
They should use it to improve Siri’s ability to determine what action is being asked and its ability to apply that to one or more services provided by Apple or by third party apps in a more flexible way.
I don’t think Apple should implement this kind of AI ”search engine”. The value is low in that and it’s not an area that Apple has any advantage in. What they should do is apply this to the input and output of things you can do on your phone.
Actually Apple has had it’s own search engine for the last three years. iOS14 and later uses it instead of Google. Search ”Applebot” for more information.
Do you mean spotlight? I asked Spotlight a question and it ported me over to google. Spotlight is a good search engine for stuff on my iPad but for outside questions it still uses Google.
That’s exactly what I thought too when I heard this news.
I think the news is that Apple have given their employees a full LLM chat bot to play with internally. That is more than just the smaller transformer in the autocorrect feature.