I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away

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The most famous virtual valets around todaySiri, Alexa, and Google Assistantare a lot less impressive than the latest AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT or Google Bard..

To get a preview of whats next, I took an experimental AI voice helper called vimGPT for a test run..

Although hardly an intelligence test for a human, buying something online on the open web is a lot more complicated and challenging than the tasks that Siri, Alexa, or the Google Assistant typically handle..

VimGPT is an experimental open-source program built by Ishan Shah, a lone developer, not a product in development, but you can bet that Apple, Google, and others are doing similar experiments with a view to upgrading Siri and other assistants..

Salakhutdinov says setting agents loose inside environments like VisualWebArena also makes it possible to have the agents actively learn from successes and failures, in the same way that simulations can provide training for game-playing machine learning algorithms, honing them into champion-defeating superstars like Alphabets AlphaGo...

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