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Title: Apple's Next-Gen Version of Siri Is 'On Par' With ChatGPT

Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/211...

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (paywalled), Apple has big plans to turn
Siri into a true ChatGPT competitor. "A next-generation, chatbot version of
Siri has reportedly made significant progress during testing over the past
six months; some executives allegedly now see it as 'on par' with recent
versions of ChatGPT," reports MacRumors. "Apple is also apparently discussing
giving Siri the ability to access the internet to gather and synthesize data
from multiple sources, just like ChatGPT." From the report: The report added
that Apple now has artificial intelligence offices in Zurich, where employees
are working on an all-new software architecture for Siri. This "monolithic
model" is entirely built on an LLM engine that will eventually replace Siri's
current "hybrid" architecture that has been incoherently layered up with
different functionality over many years. The new model will make Siri more
conversational and better at synthesizing information. Google's Gemini is
expected to be added to iOS 19 as an alternative to ChatGPT in Siri, but
Apple is also apparently in talks with Perplexity to add their AI service as
another option in the future, for both Siri and Safari search.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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