They pretend to understand spoken English, but they don't, because they're just a huge set of hard-coded rules written out one-at-a-time by enormous numbers of very expensive developers.
This is the 1990s approach to AI: Fuzzy logic, heuristics, solvers, dynamic programming, etc...
That approach has been thoroughly blown out of the water by Transformers, which does all of that and much more with a thousand lines of code that can be banged out in a couple of hours by one guy while talking in a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Transformers will revolutionise this entire space, and more that don't even exist yet as a market.
Take for example humanoid robots: Boston Dynamics has had the hardware working well enough for a decade, but not the software. You can't walk up to one of their robots, point at something, and tell the robot to complete a task. It can't understand what it is seeing, and can't understand English instructions. Programming that in with traditional AI methods would take man-millenia of effort, and might never work well enough.
If we could speed up GPT-4o (the one with vision) to just 10x or 50x its current speed, with some light fine-tuning it could control a humanoid robot right now with a level of understanding comparable to C3P0 from Star Wars!
Siri and Alexa are bad. Very, very bad.
They pretend to understand spoken English, but they don't, because they're just a huge set of hard-coded rules written out one-at-a-time by enormous numbers of very expensive developers.
This is the 1990s approach to AI: Fuzzy logic, heuristics, solvers, dynamic programming, etc...
That approach has been thoroughly blown out of the water by Transformers, which does all of that and much more with a thousand lines of code that can be banged out in a couple of hours by one guy while talking in a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Transformers will revolutionise this entire space, and more that don't even exist yet as a market.
Take for example humanoid robots: Boston Dynamics has had the hardware working well enough for a decade, but not the software. You can't walk up to one of their robots, point at something, and tell the robot to complete a task. It can't understand what it is seeing, and can't understand English instructions. Programming that in with traditional AI methods would take man-millenia of effort, and might never work well enough.
If we could speed up GPT-4o (the one with vision) to just 10x or 50x its current speed, with some light fine-tuning it could control a humanoid robot right now with a level of understanding comparable to C3P0 from Star Wars!