Last Update: March 16, 2023, 18:54 IST
Siri has been Apple’s go-to voice assistant
Apple has been relying on Siri for its machine learning strategy, but it may need a Plan B to fight ChatGPT.
AI chatbots are trending in the market right now, and the likes of ChatGPT have grabbed the race with giants like Microsoft and Google keeping a close eye on them. But most of you must be wondering where is Apple in this battle? And will we see Siri becoming a clear contender to go up against popular AI chatbots.
Well, according to an ex-Apple engineer, Siri is never going to have an answer for the company in its mission to become the leading force in the AI circuit. John Burke knows more about Siri than most of us, including Apple, and he explains why ChatGPT won’t face any competition from Siri.
Burkey claims that Siri can only answer simple questions and that adding new questions would require Apple’s engineers to add new words to its database, which could take weeks to execute, Burkey told The New York Times. was cited. reports,
When talking about ChatGPT, he claims that it will take about a year for Apple to integrate it to find such a high level AI model, which is a lot of time in industry terms. He blames Siri’s outdated and complex code, which makes it difficult to bring new tools and features to the voice assistant in a quick amount of time.
Burke joined Apple in 2014 with a mission to improve Siri but left the company in 2016, citing issues with Apple’s voice assistant. His comments come against the backdrop of ChatGPT 4.0 version being introduced this week by Open AI, and Microsoft already using its AI models to run Bing searches for all users.
ChatGPT’s rumor that voice assistants are starting to feel like a dated technology prompts urgent efforts from the likes of Google and Amazon to keep themselves relevant and move in the right direction or lose out to the competition to come. goes.
Google has made strides in this area but nothing has come close to the accuracy of ChatGPT, while Apple has been relatively quiet so far. With both companies hosting their own developer conferences in the next few months, it is expected that there will be more buzz around them in the build up to the event.
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