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Of course it does, where are you getting this from? This is what LLMs do, understand language. If you ask chaptGPT to add an event to your apple calendar it will say it doesn't have access and give you instructions to do so. Apple is basically working on converting those instructions to interface with siri.
that's not what the ChatGPT part will be doing. As you say, siri already handles that. ChatGPT is there to understand the language and context of the request, something LLMs do much much better than Siri now.
What LLMs do has nothing to do with understanding. There's no there there.
i suspect we are going to have a semantic disagreement on what "understanding" means here.
ChatGPT is absolutely trained on the concept of calendars. It doesn't need to "understand" what a calendar is on a deep epistemological level to process requests about them. If you ask chatGPT a question about calendars, it'll answer you. If you ask midjourney to draw you an apple, it'll draw you an apple. So in that sense LLMs absolutely "understand" what you mean, and that's enough for chatGPT to help siri.
Like, how? Or why? I admit I don’t use Siri hardly at all but the most I wanted from it was making a note, calling someone, or getting a simple search back. ChatGPT only does the latter that I know of, and its answers are often poorly sourced and often very wrong.
I don’t know - based on that - why I’d let it near anything actually important.
with chatgpt siri will just be way better at understanding everyday language. For example, if i am listening to an Apple Music playlist with a bunch of different artists and i say "hey siri play this album" it has no idea what I mean. ChatGPT easily handles context dependent language like that.
If you haven't used chatGPT you should try it and compare the results with siri. It's not perfect but it is way easier to get what you want.