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Re:Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model by Apple by dbish on Sunday December 24, 2023 @01:44AM (#38751666)
Maybe, seems like overkill to solve a relatively straight forward problemt that is about resolution to real entities with a generative model that has no entity grounding (and may introduce other problems). It's really just not solved because Alexa/Siri leadership doesn't actually care enough about that use case to solve it. Device entity resolution and disambiguation does not require an LLM to solve for a limited number of devices, it just requires people to prioritze that over other things, and smart home device owners are the kind of early adopter that would not be the current market focus for growth (my guess, haven't worked on Alexa in many years).

I know a half dozen different ways to improve that today without LLMs.

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