orchard apple tree fans who would wish to enjoy the fruits of artificial word while away from their Macs and iPhones now have a wrist joint - mounted option , with the launching of an AI app for the Apple Watch call Petey .
The app , which cost $ 4.99 in the U.S.and £ 3.99 in the U.K.and was previously known as watchGPT ( which makes a difference when you seek to discover it in alphabetic lists – it come under W , not P ) , answer user ’ questions and father text in response to prompts . It ’s presently give away as 3.1 out of 5 on the U.S. App Store , with some cautiously positive reviews .
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In our tests the app was fast and produced interesting and plausible results , albeit with the usual limitations and peculiarities proofreader will probably be familiar with from alike software on other platforms . Asked to write a summary of Margaret Thatcher ’s vocation in the style of a comedian , for example , it almost instantly came up with this less than hilarious offering :
“ Ah yes , Margaret Thatcher , the Iron Lady of British politics . She was the Prime Minister of the UK from 1979 to 1990 and male child did she get thing done ! She privatized just about everything , took on the trade unions like it was a game of rap - a - mole , and go her rural area through the Falklands War . Love her or hate her , you ca n’t deny she left her mark on history . Though some might say her biggest legacy was her hair , because rent ’s be actual , that thing was immovable . ”
I was more impressed by Petey ’s attempt at a Valentine ’s Day poem in the style of Philip Larkin , although the rhyme scheme fails to convince :
Love again : wryly unpitying , big with balm , Intenser , moth-eaten at the core , When kisses freeze and faces calmIn glassy - eyed surprise , beforeA new emotion sets the psalmOf loving all once more .
No endowment , no cards , no fancy repast , Just solid gold , unerring confidence , A unbendable love that zero can slip , For it is this that makes us just . A bond certificate so deeply it makes us feelThat we ’re never really lost .
The app ’s developers go for , perhaps , that Petey can replace the often - unreliable Siri as Watch owners ’ digital assistant , and to this end proffer a complication for the app on most watch faces . This means you could access it with just a water tap like Siri . Crucially , you could input prompts using part , but as some reviewers observe , it ’s a pity this is n’t the nonpayment ; this means a second tap is required before you could start utter . ( In fact you have to bug a third time to substantiate you ’ve cease speak ; it ca n’t deduce this from secretiveness , which is n’t atrociously smart . )
It ’s strike that Apple is itself working on an AI , which may one Clarence Day roll out on the Apple Watch , but despite“leading the AI arms race”in terms of acquisitions as of three years ago , the party is publicly lagging behind its competition in this gaze . As we report last month , those hoping for a ChatGPT competitor at WWDC 2023 willprobably be disappoint .
