- Apple seems to limit the development of Siri for fear of artificial intelligence
- Ultimately, the success of ChatGPT would encourage the firm to review its plans
- Siri would be so bad that Apple's VR headset could have been equipped with another voice assistant!
If you have already tested ChatGPT or Google Assistant, you are probably aware that the answers offered by these programs are often much better than those ofSiri. The voice assistant of the iPhone and Mac was nevertheless a precursor when it arrived with the iPhone 4s: let's remember that the high-end smartphone was presented in 2011. But a file published by our colleagues atThe Informationexplains that conflicts between certain Apple employees would have seriouslyslowed down developmentThey are app…
Starting, in particular, with a debate around the thorny question of confidentiality. So, while Apple makes the protection of personal data its hobby horse, it turns out that this is essential to the progress of Siri. Managers of the Apple firm therefore blocked the learning of the software based on this information, for fear of failing to maintain its now historic position in this area. Worse still: here also out of fear, the Cupertino pundits would have chosen to limit the service's knowledge derived from artificial intelligence, in order to avoid errors, whichdon't misswith this type of operations.
A creation that is far too cautious?
According to our source today, developers in charge of Siri were also instructed to validate each potential response by hand. Understand that the department then left no room for automatically generated responses. This still echoes the rather problematic behind the scenes of other models of the genre in terms of ethics, notablyChatGPTwhose little hands (the moderators) face terrible mental health risks. They are the ones who “direct” the system, for example by teaching it to be tolerant, caring and on point rather than racist, stigmatizing and providing illegal advice.
Fortunately, Apple apparently seems to have learned lessons from Siri's delays, especially since the advent of the alternative from OpenAI. Recent leaks suggest that Tim Cook's company is working to improve its voice assistant based on the successful experience ofthe crazy growth app. We're talking about no less than a hundred million monthly active users (MAU) all the same, in just two short months of availability to the general public. Or around 10% of the equivalent mass at Apple!
Not even ready for the VR headset!
To conclude,The Informationassures that the development of Siri would be so catastrophic that Apple would have for a time thought about leaving it aside for its supposed virtual reality headset, to the point of creatinganother voice assistantdedicated to the device. A height that could have surprised more than one given the efforts made with Continuity, which makes all the devices in the headed ecosystem interoperable by everyone, even ifthe charging port of the beast could indeed be different.
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