According to the New York Times, the technology giant gave information about language models and other artificial intelligence tools to employees at its annual artificial intelligence summit last month. Apple engineers, including the team responsible for Siri, were testing the company's language model, or ChatGPT-style tools. The source also states that these tests take place almost every week.
It seems that the era of Siri, Alexa and other voice assistants will end in the next year or two. ChatGPT and similar tools have already wiped out voice assistants from the market. John Burkey, a former Apple engineer who worked on Siri and was responsible for the development of Siri in 2014, also made interesting statements to the New York Times. “Siri was built on a cumbersome code,” Burkey said. The bulky construction made things difficult. It takes weeks to update core features. "If you want to add a word to Siri's database, you get into a big pile."
Simple updates like adding new words to Siri cause the entire database to be rebuilt. This process can take up to 6 weeks. Adding more complex features, such as new search tools, can take up to a year. According to John Burkey, there is no way Siri can be a creative assistant like ChatGPT.
An anonymous source close to Apple stated that the company has been working on the artificial intelligence tool for a long time. According to the source, the tech giant may introduce its language model next year.
