ChatGPT with voice assistants

Just earlier today I was asking Siri to set an alarm and couldn’t help but think how helpful it would be to have a fast LLM support for phone voice assistants like Siri. You can already have very basic conversations with them. But they are rudimentary at best and don’t compare at all with ChatGPT.

All the big technology players are trying to do something so they can ride this LLM wave. Some ideas of what we could expect from popular companies and products:

1. Adobe: Midjourney, Stable Diffusion .. etc all built into Adobe Photoshop. There’s already a teaser out there for this.
2. Alphabet: Chat GPT for search, similar to integration of Microsoft’s Bing Search with ChatGPT
3. Apple: A much better Siri!
4. Amazon: Interactive chat for finding products, recommendations
5. Facebook: Bot to help with creating new posts?

Prediction: By Dec, 2024 every mainstream e-commerce site on the internet will have an LLM powered ChatBot instead the search bar that we see today. It could be a hybrid interface allowing for both search as well as conversations.

2023-05-18 Update

OpenAI released their iPhone app today with Whisper API support. So users can now just ‘ask’ their question and see the text response in the app. The voice integration is a little clunky at the moment .. takes several steps and not like the native iPhone / macOs dictation mode. But it’s s step forward!