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There's the "junk" theory of AI. It won't destroy us, or claim our minds, but accelerate the computation of human desires, both good and bad, but mostly bad. Imagine AI-accelerated advertisements:
We have at least a hundred year history of confident claims as to the social impact of future tech ("It will end wars!" "It will change education!", "People will listen to opera over the phone lines!", "Subliminal ads are coming!", blah blah, blah) and yet the people who make these sorts of claims have learned NOTHING from this past history.
So yeah, I know where I'll file this particular prediction...
I'm not saying ChatGPT is perfect or the final form of AI assistants. I am saying that it is far more capable and useful for many things than Siri is. Sure, it's just reading back information it finds on the internet and does not have a deep general understand of how the world works - but at least it can understand language, nuance, and what you're actually asking for. Siri, much of the time, can not.
The point of Siri is that you can use it offline and privately.
If you tried to run something like ChatGPT offline you would have to train it on a large corpus of text yourself and even then it would mean your phone would have 30 minutes battery life and go into melt down.
These things are not the same and shouldn't be compared. Siri isn't an LLM, even if an online version can incorporate it.
Just don't forget privacy. LLMs are data harvesters and you would be unwise to use them for private corporate work.
Yeah, and a car is also far more capable and useful for many things than Siri is.
You're making a pointless comparison! Siri at some point (probably sooner than you expect) will make use of LLM capabilities within the framework of what it does, but right now
- Siri is a user assistant
- ChatGPT is a text extrapolation engine.
If text extrapolation is important to you, great, but it has zero interest to me. And if you're one of the deluded millions that think text extrapolation is somehow the same thing as "looking up facts", or "understanding", or "empathy" or any of the torrent of relentless stupidity we've seen over the past few weeks, shame on you!
Go read https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ or something equivalent!!!
Yes, I hope so! That will be great!
And, as it turns out, a) kind of sucks without b).
Not really. Historically, Siri always required an internet connection to work at all. In iOS 15, Apple added offline capabilities to Siri. But it’s limited to a small subset of functionality, like setting timers and changing phone settings. Anything more complex than a few basic functions still requires an internet connection.
So?
The point is they introduced it and highlighted its offline importance. gosh man.
I agree it can be a useful feature. But it's untrue that Siri is made more "private" because it works offline. Only basic functions work without an internet connection, and any data you share with Siri for these functions is unlikely to be particularly sensitive. Any complex requests are passed over the internet to Apple's cloud. Further, I strongly suspect that all Siri requests are actually sent over the internet if you do have an internet connection.
