According to internal studies at Apple, there is a huge gap between the company’s AI capabilities, Siri, and those of industry leaders, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google.
According to the studies, ChatGPT showed 25% higher accuracy compared to Siri. Additionally, OpenAI’s chatbot was able to answer 30% more questions than Apple’s virtual assistant. This means that Siri is around 20% less accurate and 23% less capable than its competitor.
More alarming for Apple is the assessment from some employees that the company’s generative AI lags more than two years behind industry frontrunners, which was, I believe, was known amongst the people who follow Apple closely.
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The true powers of Siri 2.0, AI-enabled Siri, can be tested by users when iOS 18.4 comes out.
Despite these challenges, Mark Gurman cautions against underestimating Apple’s potential for catching up. Apple Maps, for example. It started quite late, and now it’s the go-to maps app for Apple users.
The company is expected to leverage its strengths in hardware integration and user experience design to develop unique AI solutions.
“ According to the studies, ChatGPT showed 25% higher accuracy compared to Siri. ”
That is without a doubt the dumbest report I have read in years. AI Hallucinations was literally named for the propensity of ChatGPT to make up things that were not true. Siri may say “Here’s what I found on the web” fairly often but the idea that ChatGPT is more accurate is absurd. Makes me question who paid for this piece of fiction. It’s utter garbage.