ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voice Assistant

Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by tmalsburg2 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @07:48AM (#34476860)

ChatGPT is impressive but it makes a lot of mistakes. Siri can't afford that rate of errors for PR and legal reasons, so they need to use a technology that's less flexible but more reliable / safer. This is similar to self-driving cars: it's relatively easy to come up with a proof-of-concept but making it into a safe mainstream product is a different story.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by rcarmo on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:08AM (#34477003)

You're conflating technology with functionality. Surely Siri's core tech can be improved.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by tmalsburg2 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:24AM (#34477111)

Did I say that Siri's core tech cannot be improved?

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by peyton on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:04AM (#34476962)

Yeah IIRC they had an emphasis on disaster response and getting fixes pushed out across all 20+ languages.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by jorvi on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:05AM (#34477494)

> Siri can't afford that rate of errors for PR and legal reasons

Have we been using the same Siri? The only thing I trust it with is starting a timer. Everything else is literally a coin flip if it’ll actually understand me or mangle my request into something ludicrous.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by Xeophon on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:24AM (#34477649)

But one timer and one timer only. Siri cannot start a second timer on your phone in 2023. Its ridiculous

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by colejohnson66 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:36PM (#34480624)

That’s not Siri, but the Clock app. Siri’s “start a timer for …” just calls out to the Clock app.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by amrangaye on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:51AM (#34477877)

My experience as well - I now just disable it on new phones. I think they only thing worse - or a close second - is the Apple TV interface.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by alexr243 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:26PM (#34479765)

I don’t trust it for setting a timer fully. When I say “set a timer for 50 minutes” (laundry) it ends up setting a 15 minute timer >50% of the time

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by gnicholas on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:59PM (#34480216)

IME Siri is much more limited than Alexa and Google Assistant. Have there been any lawsuits regarding those assistants? Or is Apple just being more conservative for other reasons?

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by pornel on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:38PM (#34480664)

Siri makes a lot of mistakes.

It keeps mishearing "a lamp" as "alarm", and goes into alarm setting mode even if the rest of the query makes no sense.

When told to turn of specific lights, it sometimes ignores the room/qualifier, and turns all lights off in the whole house.

Many other queries end up "I can't find <what you said> in your Music library".

Siri is three regexes in a trench coat.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by jldugger on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:39PM (#34481986)

> It keeps mishearing "a lamp" as "alarm",

Doesn't this Shortcut use the same voice recognition? Doesn't seem like a problem GPT solves.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by pornel on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:14PM (#34482299)

You've missed the "even if the rest of the query makes no sense." part.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by jldugger on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:50PM (#34484473)

ChatGPT will have the same problem, since it works on the text iOS gave it. It's not clear to me it would perform any better at reformulating your query.

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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by pornel on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:33AM (#34490008)

I expect it to know it's not possible to increase brightness of an alarm.

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