Greg Pierce

I asked new Siri “What’s the status of my last Apple order.”

It successfully found it, told me it shipped, and was scheduled to arrive on X date. Very impressive, and pretty quick.

But I’m still chuckling because it then read me the tracking number as “W one billion, five hundred sixty two million, one hundred twenty six thousand, four hundred and nine”

Jun 15 at 2:40amDrafts
Show threadCharlie Sorrel18h ago
@agiletortoise Never stop being you, Siri
Show threadYvonnezed9h ago
@agiletortoise Watching sighted people deal with the fact that speech synthesisers will never get it right all the time never fails to make me laugh, ☺️ Welcome to my life for the last 40 years or so. AI speech just seems to have made the errors slightly weirder, not gotten rid of them.
Show threadGreg Pierce9h ago
@Yvonnezed Hard problems for sure.
Show threadGreg Pierce8h ago
@Yvonnezed Curious, is there any real work being done on LLMs that are trained on specific needs of low-vision or similar communities? Seems like there’s a lot of opportunity there as these things mature.
Show threadYvonnezed8h ago
@agiletortoise Oh, so so so much AI for blind people, ☺️. Unfortunately, LLMS being what they are, they still haven't solved the fundamental hallucination problem that means it invents buttons on control panels that don't exist, food items that aren't on the real menu etc etc. So basically you can have an app that supposedly describes the world around you but can't count on it not describing nonexistent things particularly if the picture isn't clear and it refuses to tell you that but invents stuff instead. It's really useful, but all of them tell you not to rely on them for anything important or dangerous.