Tools to do this are and have been available for many months.
The difficulty is in scale. Enabling every smartphone owner to use GenAI, especially using voice commands requires hardware resources several orders of magnitude greater than what OpenAI is currently burning through.
The LLM-powered Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant was a matter of infrastructure investment.
With the recent Apple's announcement, it's only a matter of time with Google and others following through.
> Tools to do this are and have been available for many months.
Yes, indeed im also using this “workaround” since some months ago (3/4?)
>The difficulty is in scale. Enabling every smartphone owner to use GenAI, especially using voice commands requires hardware resources several orders of magnitude greater than what OpenAI is currently burning through.
>The LLM-powered Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant was a matter of infrastructure investment.
>With the recent Apple's announcement, it's only a matter of time with Google and others following through.
I absolutely agree, but these things need to be handled by Apple/ChatGPT or those who maintain the servers. For me, it's enough that it works now. Hoping the official integration doesn't come too late...
To be honest, this method appears more complicated and has more friction than my already tricky approach. By the way, it’s better in some aspects because it can perform a lot more functions than text actions.
I’m hoping the Apple version would do things like “make me a playlist of new artists based on songs I use to work out” or “play songs from my library that I like but haven’t heard in the past 6 months”
Text selection and editing on iOS is broken in general. Trying to replace just a part of a URL in the Safari address bar with the clipboard contents is nearly impossible, even if you know that long pressing space moves the cursor.
As an iPhone user, I really don't understand Apple sometimes. I want to love their work, then dumb things like this happen. There's other pet peeves I have, but overall, I don't see myself ever going back to Android. You can probably say the same of any other software company.
I have been doing something similar for months. I share the text with an automation shortcut that adds a prompt to it and opens Copilot for me. I just paste the text there manually since it’s not possible to paste with shortcuts. It works great and it’s totally free!
I just used it to proofread this reply too.
Apple's official support promises strong focus on privacy. Would it offer any benefits over this solution? Or would they be equal from the privacy point of view?
I didn't read the announcements and I don't know the details, if anyone knows more please explain.
The difficulty is in scale. Enabling every smartphone owner to use GenAI, especially using voice commands requires hardware resources several orders of magnitude greater than what OpenAI is currently burning through.
The LLM-powered Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant was a matter of infrastructure investment.
With the recent Apple's announcement, it's only a matter of time with Google and others following through.