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Apple Hiring for 'Answers' Team Working on 'ChatGPT-Like Search'

It's crazy to see people here roasting Apple for being slow to dive into one of the most money-losing technologies ever created. At this point, they could probably sit out the AI race entirely and wait for OpenAI, MSFT, etc to burn themselves out.

Vapourware announcement and false advertising aside, taking this slow is one of the better decisions Apple has made in recent memory.
 
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Never used Siri because it was always the dumbest of the bunch. Maybe Bixby was worse:D. After years Siri is still the dumbest and I don't see how Apple wants to catch up in AI when they don't even get something simple as Siri right.
 
I still can't quite get my head around how they're only just doing this now.

ChatGPT started to really gain traction back in 2022 (despite the first models launching in 2018). So Apple have already had 2-3 years to figure out an AI strategy. In reality, more than that, as you'd expect a tech company to contain enough visionaries capable of seeing what was coming down the tracks, certainly some time before the likes of us could see it.

And yet... here we are.

I don't know what the opposite of 'prescient' is, but there definitely feels something missing from the company these days.
 
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GrassShark said:
It's crazy to see people here roasting Apple for being slow to dive into one of the most money-losing technologies ever created. At this point, they could probably sit out the AI race entirely and wait for OpenAI, MSFT, etc to burn themselves out.

Vapourware announcement and false advertising aside, taking this slow is one of the better decisions Apple has made in recent memory.
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Apple did it to themselves. Why is it every time I setup a new device it constantly pushes their beta AI…it’s a BETA they treat like production which is just wrong IMO. Take it off the damn OS until it’s all figured out then deliver it. They already dove into and whiffed hard so I would argue it’s one of the worst decisions they’ve ever made and now consumers have some BS beta tag we’re just supposed to accept???
 
Sheepish-Lord said:
Apple did it to themselves. Why is it every time I setup a new device it constantly pushes their beta AI…it’s a BETA they treat like production which is just wrong IMO. Take it off the damn OS until it’s all figured out then deliver it. They already dove into and whiffed hard so I would argue it’s one of the worst decisions they’ve ever made and now consumers have some BS beta tag we’re just supposed to accept???
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Just turn it off? It’s off on my Mac and I never hear about it.
 
I’m sure this is a backfill of a vacancy, but it still seems like they can’t keep going on like this of losing people and not being able to keep up with the breakneck speed in the AI/personal assistant/chat space.

Kind of astonishing that they can’t get this şħįț together.
 
It takes less time to open chatGPT app and type a search than opening the browser and typing the search just to scroll past ads, just to open a generated page with a bunch of slop before being able to find the actual result.

Example: How much time to cook Salmon in an Airfryer?
You expect the response to be something like: "9 minutes at 300F".

With Google, the webpage will be a 5-page that you have to scroll until you find the numbers. It will start with "You wanna know how to cook Salmon? Let's begin: My grandad was a war veteran and had 3 fingers and loved to cook..."



That's why I think Google is "cooked".
 
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gomichaelgo said:
Okay, but can Apple just hire someone to fix the issues where you click on an instagram link and it takes you to the App Store to download IG, but you already have it and you click the "open" button and it just opens IG, and doesn't go to the person's page?

Or when someone sends you a Google Maps thing why can't Apple intuitively provide the directions to said location within Apple Maps or your default map app?

And same with Spotify. If I use Apple Music and someone sends me a song link in Spotify, why can't it just read the data and give me the AM song to stream? Come on guys. Isn't the meta data or whatever the f it's called there? Just read said song or playlist and give it to me in AM.
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OMG, yes! Does Apple even have anyone there that uses an iPhone? If there are, don't they find things like this annoying, so should focus on doing something about it? Instead, we had a revamped Photos app that nobody asked for, only for it to go back to what it was before, and Image Playground
 
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tim_apple said:
I don’t think the personalized Siri will ever happen. Apple will keep delaying it and then water it down. Pure vaporware.
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Tim Cook said it is delayed until Spring 2026.
He said it during the Earnings call. Therefore, from now on, it is impossible to escape.
 
DelayedGratificationGene said:
ChatGPT has been “for profit” since 2019 and they still haven’t generated a profit. They are hemorrhaging money as a matter of fact and they have competitors everywhere. Competition that is growing fast so they need to worry about their survival first before developing any hardware. Lol
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ChatGPT's competitors are also not making any money. Even MS' CEO has admitted that they have yet to recoup any amount of their costs related to the $80+ billion they have spent on AI infrastructure
 
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Maybe they transfer someone to the passwords team so we can have a few symbol options other than hyphen.
 
mdriftmeyer said:
Using LLM/LLA and building out data centers there will be integration to later be available on all its platforms for verified, factually peer reviewed content, collated, categorized, meta data rich content pools across all subjects, current events, politics, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if they meld it into Apple News+ for licensed peer review studies, latest journal research partnerships with revenue sharing and promotion.
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I seriously hope you're right about this.
 
gomichaelgo said:
Or when someone sends you a Google Maps thing why can't Apple intuitively provide the directions to said location within Apple Maps or your default map app?

And same with Spotify. If I use Apple Music and someone sends me a song link in Spotify, why can't it just read the data and give me the AM song to stream? Come on guys. Isn't the meta data or whatever the f it's called there? Just read said song or playlist and give it to me in AM.
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I can’t believe as someone who is usually on the side closer to Apple in the “are they anti-competitive or not” argument I’m saying this, but… Those two things listed there would be absolutely positively wildly anti-competitive.
I mean, imagine Spotify and Google taking Apple to court, which they would absolutely do.
clicking a Spotify link takes you to… It’s biggest competitor? Apple would be laughed out of there so fast that Tim Epic would start wetting his pants before the judge even finished speaking.
outside of some very rare circumstances, you can’t redirect a competitors link to your own service. That’s just something you can’t do.
and you especially can’t do it when you (Apple)’s app is literally the default.
Apple Maps and Apple Music are built into the phone, if all Spotify and Google maps links directed to them, who would download the competitor? that just would not fly.
but I’m sure Apple wishes they could do something like that.
 
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😩really Apple just needs to really start over with siri I mean almost every year Apple says we are improving Siri and then as usual they fail to deliver every time😂😅
 
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Tripps9000 said:
😩really Apple just needs to really start over with siri I mean almost every year Apple says we are improving Siri and then as usual they fail to deliver every time😂😅
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At this point, I can't imagine that just starting over with a ChatGPT-like engine and Siri's voice model wouldn't be easier. I don't know how hard it would be to get it to control Apple Home devices, but since they already can't seem to go the other way around, it doesn't seem like a harder problem to solve.

And ChatGPT has recently released a macOS agent that can complete actions on your Mac on your behalf. I'm actually willing to give it a try once I find a good use case for it (I'm not yet sure what it's capable of).
 
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