Jorge RosasFeb 7, 2023
Steve Troughton-Smith
Looping back to that report about being able to program “AR apps using Siri”; sounds completely preposterous based on Siri we have today, but it’s not even slightly problematic for tools like ChatGPT. If Apple took GPT-3, much less created their own competitive model, built it into a ‘Reality Composer’ and just *called* it 'Siri’, you could have a very credible voice-programmed holodeck environment that you can go back-and-forth with. ChatGPT doesn't even break a sweat with prompts like these
Feb 7, 2023 at 4:28amIvory for Mac
Show threadSai KambampatiFeb 7, 2023
@stroughtonsmith This is very similar to something I created back in 2021. It utilized GPT-3 as the backend and RealityKit/SwiftUI for the front end so I'm sure within a few years, we'll have apps like these. I don't have a lot of hope for Apple when it comes to AI but their AR tech stack is promising
Show threadMatthaus WoolardFeb 7, 2023
@stroughtonsmith add shortcuts to that so that the ‘Siri’ can creat logic flows it could be very powerful
Show threadLeonFeb 7, 2023

@stroughtonsmith I think you could go a long way with combining gestures, voice and eye tracking.

The question I have is: *what* AR apps? Because outside of intensely narrow verticals like aircraft maintenance I have yet to see an AR app that makes any sense beyond “hands free tablet” or maybe “VR creativity apps but you can see real things too”. I’d love to see some kind of vision for AR beyond stupid shit like Terminator vision.

AR has been in phones for years now, and yet I can’t remember the last time I used it.

Show threadJohn GoeringFeb 7, 2023
@stroughtonsmith It really is amazing - though in my experience, 10-20% of the time it just makes API up on its own... 😬
Show threadErwinFeb 7, 2023
@stroughtonsmith but ChatGPT has been trained on a large amount of production code. It pattern matches to what it’s seen. For that to work in a new paradigm/platform Apple would have to produce all that code themselves first before they could build their model. Which would require their APIs to be mature enough for real use. So unless they and/or partners/contractors have been making a plethora of diverse, real apps that never shipped, this seems, idk, unlikely to work well?
Show threadAlex RosenbergFeb 7, 2023
@stroughtonsmith That area of management is not capable of something like this.
Show threadJeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱Feb 7, 2023

@stroughtonsmith You’re going to get in trouble for suggesting that ChatGPT is something more than a mere “bullshit generator."

There are people who seem quite invested in downplaying the potential of this technology.

For what it’s worth, I’ve used it to create a couple of relatively non-trivial command line tools, and I’m sure it’s only going to get better from here on out provided that nobody kneecaps it first.

Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithFeb 7, 2023
@jeff garbage in, garbage out. GPT-3.5 is an incredible tool
Show threadRobby BarnesFeb 11, 2023
@stroughtonsmith I’ve been impressed with how good of a job it does with obscure errors we run in to from time to time, like this one for a Mac that wouldn’t boot.