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Sad, with the emergence of GPT they should've find a way to combine it with GPT to actually have a smart assistant.
Depends what you mean by "smart assistant". Spew a bunch of trivia on a random subject? Sure. Understand your speech commands better? Maybe. Actually manage your stuff (meetings, reminders)? Nope.
ChatGPT is good at making up pieces of text that come very very close to what you wanted (more so in the spirit rather than the letter of it), but it's not very good at anything else.
ChatGPT has potential to create meeting invitations. I asked it:
It answered:
Requires a bit of prompt engineering to make it work, but this can probably be improved with some fine tuning. All you need is something that detects and parses ics invitation in the output.
Sure it can output .ics but the question is, would you trust it to manage your calendar? To get every single meeting right?
Software at its core is a precision tool. When it goes wrong it was either made wrong or you used it wrong. But ML introduces another layer for which the software maker doesn't want to take responsability, and you the user have no idea if you're using it right. When it fails there's "nobody to blame" yet you're the one left holding the bag.
With fundamentally flawed software like this (ambiguous by design) it's fun to play (especially if it seems to make sense 80-90% of the time), but it really sucks to have to depend on it for actually important stuff.
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Ms already pushing copilot in office and windows. I think, using an old branding with questionable reputation (Cortana) would be a bad move for them.
They simply start from scratch using all "new MS" branding and wording.
isn't the article about Cortana being replaced by a gpt powered one?
Hahaha no. No one wants that. But it's coming I'm sure
There are a lot of people who would be excited for something like this.
It's just that, people who focus more on privacy tend to avoid such products, and even whole companies like microshaft.