Ex-Apple engineer says Siri is way too clunky to ever be like ChatGPT
John Burkey, an ex-Apple engineer who was tasked to improve Siri in 2014 and left the company in 2016, said that Siri's clunky design makes it difficult to add new features.
Siri is able to answer simple queries like"What's the weather?" and"Can you play this song?" by drawing from a database with a large stockpile of words such as restaurant locations and musician names, Burkey said. As a result, Siri can only understand a limited number of requests, which means that engineers must add new words to its database to expand its capabilities, he told the Times.
But Burkey, who calls Siri's database"one big snowball," said that adding new phrases could take up to six weeks as a complete overhaul of the database is required. Integrating more ChatGPT-like advanced features such as search could take about a year. Even updating Siri's basic features, he said, could take weeks because of its outdated, convoluted code.
Apple did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment ahead of publication. Burkey did not immediately respond when contacted by Insider for further comment., its most advanced language model yet — threatens to make voice assistant tech obsolete with its impressive capabilities.
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