Is Apple finally working on a ChatGPT rival?

Date:
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:30:45 +0000

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Apple is reportedly working on AI that could underpin a brand new Siri after years of battling clunky code.

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AI has been garnering all the headlines in recent months, with pandemonium surrounding the release of AI writer ChatGPT, setting off the subsequent launches of rival AI systems such as Googles Bard and Anthropics Claude, to name a few.

With Microsoft heavily backing OpenAI and even Meta looking to prioritize AI over the metaverse , that leaves only Apple as the last big tech firm to announce its plans within the space.

The typically secretive company hasnt quite done that just yet, but some comments and hints suggest that Apple is now working on language-generating artificial intelligence. Apple artificial intelligence

Rather than an outright chatbot, Apple seems to be working on a language-generating model to underpin Siri, in a move that will see the voice assistants fundamental building blocks change entirely from a template-based system, which has limited Siri for a number of years.

Like some other voice assistants, Siri has struggled to understand different accents and to string multiple commands together, and an AI model may just
fix this ahead of its competition as Apple looks towards text-generating artificial intelligence.

9To5Mac reported obtaining information about Apples current natural language generation testing, which has been dubbed Bobcat. Its testing currently expands to tvOS for Apple TVs, though the software is also said to underpin HomePods too. It may then roll out to other devices including iOS and
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New foundations with adaptive artificial intelligence may help alleviate what New York Times calls the clunky code that led Siri to face so many challenges and setbacks, especially when compared to Googles Assistant which may already benefit from the companys own chatbot, Bard.

If history is anything to go by, then AI may be silently embedded into an Apple product designed to improve productivity or capability, rather than an outright, in-your-face solution like ChatGPT; but either way, Apples products (and hopefully Siri) hope to be all the better for it. Check out our list of the best secure smartphones



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