That's my interaction with my iPhone, inspired by "How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race/The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise" (NYT).
Chatbots are powered by... large language models... systems trained to recognize and generate text based on enormous data sets scraped off the web....
In contrast, Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant are essentially what are known as command-and-control systems. These can understand a finite list of questions and requests like “What’s the weather in New York City?” or “Turn on the bedroom lights.” If a user asks the virtual assistant to do something that is not in its code, the bot simply says it can’t help....
Siri’s database contains a gigantic list of words, including the names of musical artists and locations like restaurants, in nearly two dozen languages.... [S]eemingly simple updates, like adding some new phrases to the data set, would require rebuilding the entire database, which could take up to six weeks...
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They really should have hardcoded something like "It doesn't look like anything to me" for any question about ChatGPT or other well-known chatbots/quasi-AI systems.
I BEG YOU to kill the Bethany Mandel auto-play video.
Every time your page loads she starts speaking : (
How cruel of Althouse to ask Siri that question. Wouldn't be surprised Siri if sent Althouse up some dead end road in retaliation.
"It’s unbelievable like a lead balloon
It’s so impossible to even learn the tune
Kill that beast and feed that swine
Scale that wall and smoke that vine
Feed that horse and saddle up the drum
It’s unbelievable, the day would finally come"
Sounds like Biden's press secretary.
[S]eemingly simple updates, like adding some new phrases to the data set, would require rebuilding the entire database, which could take up to six weeks...
Well, that seems like an unbelievably stupid piece of application design!
I don't understand why Siri can't be backended by a standard SQL or probably better a NoSQL database. This is so obvious I must be missing some reason why Apple's software developers built Siri the way they did.
Do any of the IT geeks here have any idea of why Apple developed Siri this way?
The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise.
Terminator 4: The Rise of the Chatbots?
Maybe at the time the developers still viewed virtual assistants as our helpers, rather than as our replacements.
YoungHegelian said...
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Do any of the IT geeks here have any idea of why Apple developed Siri this way?
3/16/23, 11:07 AM
That's probably not true.
The timeframe may be to ensure that when adding information that Siri (sic) doesn't exhibit bizarre behavior and is predictable in the responses.
@stlcdr
The timeframe may be to ensure that when adding information that Siri (sic) doesn't exhibit bizarre behavior and is predictable in the responses.
Then you're saying that the six weeks includes testing & verification? That may be true, but if so, then the reporter wrote that up really badly.
And we all know that reporters never get their details wrong...
Andrea, listen, don't interrupt, and don't lecture with regurgitated template. You, too, Siri, Alexa et al.
"It doesn't look like anything to me" for any question about ChatGPT or other well-known chatbots/quasi-AI systems
They did, with Andrea.
"You said something. It probably wasn't import. So, I will ignore it."
also
"Poop on you."
She hears what she wants to hear.
I just asked Alexa "what do you think of ChatGPT?" and I got a reasonable response, but not really an answer. It wanted to hook me up with some sort of "Socialbot" if I heard correctly, where I would rate different AIs or some such.
But anyway, it was a valid response, and I doubt the Alexa team spent 6 weeks working on it.
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