Former Apple engineer says Siri can’t beat ChatGPT

Launched in 2011, Siri has been a great companion for many. But Apple’s voice assistant may not be as powerful as OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence platform.

Former Apple engineer John Burkey New York Times What Siri has a “bulky code” that makes it hard to add new features. Professional worked at Gigante de Cupertino between 2014 and 2016 with the function to bring improvements to the assistant.

In a nutshell, Siri asks, “Can you play this song?” It responds to questions and commands such as accessing a cloud database. Next, a group of engineers is responsible for creating a “word index” that expands capabilities.

But, Former Apple employee suggests database in question is ‘a big snowball’. It takes up to six weeks to add these new expressions, which require many fine-tuning, to be interpreted by the voice assistant.

According to Burkey, it could take a year to implement a similar integration to ChatGPT for advanced searches. Finally, the expert pointed to “complex and obsolete code” as the culprit of the slow feature addition process.

for Business ContentApple did not respond to a request for comment on the matter. John Burkey also did not return link from the North America portal for more details.

Retirement of voice assistants

Coincidentally, the Siri disclosures were released shortly after the ChatGPT-4 announcement. The new advanced platform with many impressive features could make voice assistant technology obsolete.

Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer has already stated that the OpenAI chatbot’s extensive capabilities “make it look like an idiot” to existing assistants. This view is similar to that of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who said that Siri and Alexa are “stupid as stones”.

It’s worth remembering that Amazon made cuts to the Alexa voice assistant division at the end of 2022. That’s because the division would have incurred losses of more than $3 billion last year, described by former employees as “a colossal failure.”