It looks like Apple may begin incorporating ChaptGPT into its product base.
In February, Apple held its annual AI summit, an internal event that briefs employees on its Machine Learning and AI advancements.
While the event was reportedly more subdued than expected aside from the fact that it was the first in-person event that Apple had held since the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York Times spoke with sources – including engineers from Apple’s Siri team – who said that Apple is actively testing language-generating concepts.
Generative language would be a massive undertaking for Apple. Currently, Siri needs to be fed a prompt that already exists inside its database. If a user asks Siri a question that hasn’t already been integrated into its code, it responds that it cannot help the user.
John Burkey, a former Apple engineer, noted that upgrading Siri’s data set required engineers to rebuild the entire database — a task that could take up to six weeks. He believes that adding more complex features could take a year and doesn’t believe that Siri would ever become a creative assistant like ChatGPT.
Microsoft has already begun testing its ChatGPT features, which have been integrated into its Bing & Edge products.
Google is also working to bring AI tools into its Google Workspace and has begun opening up its AI language model called PaLM for developers and businesses.
It’s unlikely that generative language is going away anytime soon. On Tuesday, OpenAI released GPT-4, an upgraded language model for ChatGPT that is more accurate than its predecessors.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider and the New York Times