It can do a lot of chore tasks like "write a Swift data class for this and this example JSON" etc. It's of GREAT help.
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Apple Bans Employees From Using ChatGPT Amid Its Own AI Efforts
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Most tech business are considering if not doing it already.
if your company is based in IP, you almost HAVE to ban ChatGPT.
if your company is based in IP, you almost HAVE to ban ChatGPT.
ChatGPT can analyze the patterns of requests and discern a lot of information.
I don't often criticize macrumors, but the title of this is misleading. Apple isn't trying to be anti-competitive; they're just trying to protect their assets.
Per science fiction, maybe Apple could end up as the last company on Earth that hasn’t been taken over and controlled by AI forces. Everything else being too complicated for even the smartest humans to understand, let alone control.
Generic questions, in which only chore tasks are asked from GPT like "write a Swift data class for this and this example JSON" (with the keynames / values properly changed) is of little help to Microsoft, should they really want to spy on Apple.
You're missing the big picture, but that's okay. I'll let you believe ChatGPT can't figure out what the asker is doing.
LOL, sometimes one really doesn't know whether you REALLY think this way or just want to make us laugh
It's the truth that Siri has lead us into this AI revolution. Apple saw the potential of this technology long ago and has the global reach with its ecosystems to really drive its strategy forward with even more meaningful AI enhancements.
Basically, I think ALL companies banning ChatGPT shoot themselves in the foot. They instead should explicitly ask their employees to remove everything "unsafe" from their questions. I do this all the time during programming and even with this overhead I am a LOT more productive than w/o GPT4 as I can make GPT4 do a lot of chore work, while I can focus on the architecture.
Enterprise offerings are coming that wall off corporate data from centralised knowledge pools. OpenAI, Microsoft and Google have all made announcements in this regard.
Right, but until that offering is HERE, don't expect companies to allow ChatGPT if they don't have a contract.
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ChartGPT scares me. Why does it seem so dangerous and intimidating? 🥴
It all depends on how smart their employees are. If one can't engineer prompts NOT providing any info on what project etc. one is in, one indeed shouldn't use GPT. For proper prompters, it's a BIG help as it can help in a lot of otherwise time-consuming, chore tasks like the above-mentioned JSON data class generation.
Yeah it has the potential to do great harm. I am much more comfortable and optimistic about Apple's intentions in this arena. As always, Apple will do it better than everyone else from all standpoints.
I think people underestimate how much can still be inferred from what the employees of a company are doing with ChatGPT in aggregate, even if they don’t include any confidential information in their prompts. Furthermore, mistakes happen, so some amount of leakage is to be expected.
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Just wend over my ChatGPT history. OpenAI now knows more about me in 6 months than FaceBook in 12 years.
I mean VERY generic, chore tasks like "write me a MacOS app showing a file selector dialog". It saves a lot of dev time but are still very generic. And MS can only know "this company is working on a MacOS app that shows a file selector dialog".
If the users stay asking such generic q's, MS won't know much of what these projects are. For example, "A Mac app with a file selector and JSON support, which uses URLSessions and closures" (all it can gather from prompts like those of me) - not much of a help
Sorry, I didn’t catch that.
Nothing but common sense. If my employees would even think of using such service, I'd kick the person out on the spot.
Like at a lot of other companies, I'll be the IT security folks drove this decision.