This is all cute and entertaining, but my digital assistant still remains as dumb as ever and can’t process the simplest of ordinary tasks.
I still can’t ask my phone to “add a stop at cvs if it doesn’t add more than 5 minutes to my trip” while driving and using maps/navigation.
Is that too much to ask from a superhuman-performing AI that’s mastering all tasks and will disrupt everything? Or maybe the hype is more than it can deliver?
What are you on about? This is exactly what LLMs like GPT-3 or GPT-4 can and will solve. It just takes some time. But the capability to understand, reason about and execute via API calls such simple instructions has absolutely been demonstrated. Getting to a shipped product takes longer of course.
Would you mind sharing a few examples of these demonstrations? I’m genuinely very interested.
What I’ve seen so far is that they are so flaky that can’t be relied on in general. And that’s exactly my point, that the demos are cute, but can’t be relied on for ordinary day-to-day tasks.
That’s fine, progress has been great, and hard problems take time. But see the comments and people are freaking out that “AGI” is around the corner and smarter than humans and other nonsense claims.
It seems like a great example. This can be done by just chaining together existing models and really doesn't take much sophistication. Give it some time and we will get out AI assistants. After all, computers understand language now. This is plainly what has happened over the last few years.
Just tried this with Apple Maps + Siri and it can do it if the place you’re asking for is not ambiguous but it requires you to press to confirm. It can also show you the amount of time the stop will add in a prompt before hand, but again only visually.
Edit: I tried to do this on my way home and couldn’t get it to work after 7-8 tries. Siri would stop listening mid-sentence and never understood the “less than 5 minutes” part. Maybe because I’m not a native English speaker.
Maybe I was being too cynical then, but last time I checked it didn’t work. Hope this particular use case is not hardcoded in maps+Siri. If this works for general (but simple) queries then hats off to the LLMs and their creators.
I still can’t ask my phone to “add a stop at cvs if it doesn’t add more than 5 minutes to my trip” while driving and using maps/navigation.
Is that too much to ask from a superhuman-performing AI that’s mastering all tasks and will disrupt everything? Or maybe the hype is more than it can deliver?