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Well Siri just passes the buck when I asked.

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Well Siri just passes the buck when I asked.
Amusingly, ChatGPT defers to Siri:

Unfortunately, ChatGPT is not currently available as a standalone app for Apple Watch. ChatGPT is a language model that requires significant computing power and resources to operate, which may not be feasible for a device with the limited processing power and screen size of an Apple Watch.

However, you may be able to access ChatGPT through other devices such as a smartphone, tablet, or computer that can connect to the internet. Many virtual assistants and messaging platforms, such as Siri, Google Assistant, and Facebook Messenger, use natural language processing and machine learning technology similar to ChatGPT to interpret and respond to user queries. These platforms may be available on your Apple Watch and can provide similar functionality.


Yeah, not really.
 
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Hah, pretty cool. Just had my watch create a mock commentary of a pretend Formula 1 lap. Is there any way to change the robotic text to speech tho? It’s like I’m back in the 90’s while also being in the future.
 
Yep. That’s what I said when the sales guy admitted the fridge he was trying to sell me couldn’t toast bread.

I have a suspicion you don’t understand what chat got is or what it’s for.
The chatbot is trained on a large corpus of text corralled from the internet, so it can answer a wide variety of questions and generate coherent responses to many different types of prompts.
Apologies. I misunderstood this quote from the story.
 
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No snark here, but I'm curious about the "We know..." part of your comment. Beyond suppositions, how exactly do we know this?

I don't know about bias, as I haven't played with it much (it's kinda useless to me), but I've asked it a few questions related to my field, hospital pharmacy, and it was wrong several times..not even close; completely wrong.
 
This is a Siri killer. The developers will have to work quickly to get the regulators to compel Apple to allow them to integrate all the capabilities of the watch into their app. Apple will be inclined to be anti competitive and prevent that from happening while they flail around trying to integrate this into Siri. Expect Apple's response to be "oh, we are working on it". I gotta say, for a company with the market cap that Apple has, this should have never happened to them. They could have joined forces with OpenAI but they ignored it. Siri is now completely obsolete.

But hey, we have the new Apple Ski Goggles coming, whoo hoo.
 
The only request generative text can always get right is this one:

“Generate grammatically correct verbiage about <insert your desired subject-matter domain here>. It doesn’t need to be true as long as it sounds vaguely plausible.“

That’s about the limit for AI right now.
 
So it's approaching human level support, which of course isn't perfect at all.
Nah. Human support folks work off scripts that were deliberately and carefully designed to be relevant to the subject-matter area.

Generative AI has none of that. It gets lucky sometimes with a good answers. Or people just trust its nonsense responses because they sound confident. Wouldn’t be the first time!

Hey, maybe “Sales“ would be a better use for AI instead of “Support“ ;)
 


OpenAI's ChatGPT conversational chatbot is taking the tech industry by storm, and now you can ask it things right on your wrist, thanks to a new app for Apple Watch called Petey.

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If you haven't been keeping up, ChatGPT is a next-generation language model that understands and generates human-like response to natural language input. The chatbot is trained on a large corpus of text corralled from the internet, so it can answer a wide variety of questions and generate coherent responses to many different types of prompts.

What the Petey app does is that it allows you to query OpenAI's chatbot by either typing questions into your Apple Watch or using voice-to-text input. What's more, it's a conversational experience, so you can continue to interact with the chatbot in the context of the queries you've already put to it.

Petey comes with a watch face complication that makes it very easy to access without having to navigate your apps to open it. That makes it a handy alternative to asking questions of Siri, which nine times out of ten returns a series of web results that get sent to your iPhone anyway.

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If you have a query but all you have to hand is your watch, Petey can provide an answer to your question, and the responses are often far more impressive than any digital assistant is capable of. You can even have the answers read out loud with Text to Speech, and you can share the outcome of your interaction via text, email, or social media.

Previously called watchGPT (the name was dropped because of trademark issues) and developed by Hidde van de Ploeg, Petey is currently priced at $4.99 and is available on the App Store. The app requires watchOS 9, so it should work on Apple Watch Series 4 and newer models, and it currently supports 14 different languages, with more set to be added over time.

(Looking to access ChatGPT from your Mac's menu bar? There's an app for that, too.)

Article Link: How to Get ChatGPT on Your Apple Watch
it's totally for amature use only at the moment, for those who use ChatGPT to full around.
Without chat history and back and force conversation, with out real ability to do a good input, switch languages etc, it not more than an expensive glorified shortcut
 
I wholeheartedly agree! Why, when I was a young man and I needed answers, I'd spend hours Googling to find something usable. A "quick" Google search for how to fix a problem on my iPhone would requiring scouring obscure (and often shady) tech articles, watching overly long YouTube videos, and reading through rambling, barely-coherent forum posts just to get a halfway-decent answer.

These darn kids today are so soft, relying on these newfangled ChatGPT gizmos to get simple, coherent, straightforward answers in seconds instead of wasting countless hours of their lives Googling their way to vaguely usable information like the good lord and Sergey Brin intended. Now tell them to get off my lawn! 👴
The fact that you state you used Google as a young man indicates that you are not old and are simply a charlatan. 😃
 
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