A woman from Dunfermline has spoken of her shock after an Apple voice-to-text service mistakenly inserted a reference to sex - and an apparent insult - into a message left by a garage.
This article is click bate written to hook on to the buzz / drama around Apple intelligence.
This feature is almost 20 years old. Visual Voicemail was one of the early “holy shit” features that the first iPhone launched with.
I’m sure the model has changed a lot in 2 decades, but weird voicemail transcriptions are not new. We’ve all experienced these for decades.
db2@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I was getting screwed up voicemail speech to text way before AI. 🤷
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
But now it can boil the oceans faster by a few dozen orders of magnitude!
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Gods, we are so stupid.
The human species survived alongside countless others for tens of thousands of years. It has taken us roughly two or three generations to fuck it all up in the relentless pursuit of profit.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s training that uses a tremendous amount of power.
Speech-to-text transcribing of voicemails is done on-device and uses basically zero energy.