Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud

Re:Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of... by amluto on Thursday December 21, 2023 @05:09PM (#38727754)

> “Hey Siri, timer five minutes" - "I set an alarm for seventeen hundred hours”

I think I figured out the issue with this one, finally: Siri understands “Set a timer for 6:30” as a request for a timer for however far in the future 6:30 is. And it also understands “set a timer for 6” similarly.

And Siri doesn’t seem at all intelligent about when to stop transcribing.

So Siri has a rather large chance of interpreting “set a timer for 5 minutes” as “set a timer for 5” and ending up with utter nonsense.

A LLM that jointly handles language and audio might do much better.

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Re:Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of... by n9 on Thursday December 21, 2023 @05:47PM (#38728179)

Something's not right. I say "hey siri 10 minute timer" or somesuch like five times a day. I'd play with your timing and word order. For instance my kid has trouble making music work with siri in the car, but if I say "hey siri play the album technique by the band new order" just like that it works 100% of the time.

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