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Apple will hold its annual AI summit for employees next week at Steve Jobs Theater, the first fully live in-person event at the company's Apple Park headquarters since the pre-COVID era.

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The summit is similar to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, but for employees only, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who shared news of the scheduled event in a tweet.

As well as inviting staff to the Steve Jobs Theater, the in-person summit will also be live-streamed to employees unable to attend, similar to the way the company held public product announcement events before the pandemic hit.

The last fully live, fully in-person product event was for the ‌iPhone‌ 11, which was held on Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Whether the AI summit is a sign that future product events will finally return in their traditional guise is now the question on many people's lips.

Apple invited a limited number of developers to attend WWDC 2022 at Apple Park, but the event itself was pre-recorded, with no in-person presenters to showcase Apple's latest creations. Members of the media were also invited to the iPhone 14 unveiling this past September, but that keynote was pre-recorded, too.


As Gurman notes, the latest AI summit comes at a time of much tech industry excitement surrounding the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot and Google's recent announcement that it is releasing its own LaMDA-powered AI chatbot, called Bard.

Google is adding the technology behind Bard to the Google search engine to enable complex queries to be distilled into digestible answers, and Microsoft is expected to follow a similar path by integrating ChatGPT into Bing Search.

Article Link: Apple to Hold In-Person Annual 'AI Summit' for Employees at Steve Jobs Theater
 
I wonder what would be presented/discussed.
I was imagining Apple execs would just say "well guys, poo, we have like Siri, and some algorithm 🤷‍♂️ Maybe we can just tell our users they are talking to our Siri wrong." 🤣
 
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Two things I really want Apple to discuss internally.

Fixing & Improving Siri
Fixing iOS! Fixing all the nonsense bugs

Apple's reshuffle of executives showed that there are issues internally, and the continually poor quality of iOS15, 16, and macOS Ventura are not sprouting confidence. Heck, we don't even see Craig anymore. Wonder if he's on timeout...
 
I kinda of like the video presentations over the live ones. You don't get awkward pauses waiting for the audience to clap. Less pandering and straight to the point.

Early on I found siri very unhelpful so I never use it.
Agreed! Going to miss these Apple transitions. They were fun!

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Interesting all the people on here jumping on the “Siri sucks” bandwagon. I’m curious how many of you have the “help improve Siri” toggle turned on.

My theory? You don’t. Because apple users favor their privacy. Meaning they have that off. Meaning Siri can’t improve. Meanwhile, google and Amazon are siphoning data left and right, and feeding that back into the AI. Of course it’s not going to be as good.

If you have that setting off, then you don’t deserve to complain about Siri.
 
Interesting all the people on here jumping on the “Siri sucks” bandwagon. I’m curious how many of you have the “help improve Siri” toggle turned on.

My theory? You don’t. Because apple users favor their privacy. Meaning they have that off. Meaning Siri can’t improve. Meanwhile, google and Amazon are siphoning data left and right, and feeding that back into the AI. Of course it’s not going to be as good.

If you have that setting off, then you don’t deserve to complain about Siri.
I actually have it turned on. With that said, I hope they cantontinue to improve Siri. Also..

I hope this isn't a sign that WWDC is going to go all "in-person" only. If the pandemic didnt teach us anything, I would help it'd be at least that online/hybrid stuff works!
 
Most certainly Siri could be better if Apple allowed themselves to suck everyones personal information into their database of knowledge. Then actively used others copywrited material without permission to train the algorithms.
 
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You know that the hype around ChatGPT is not just a hype. GPT as a text generator is known for a very, very long time and has been improved for many years. The current GPT version that drives ChatGPT is 3.5 and version 4 is waiting around the corner. Even smarter and better.

TC and Apple just fail. There is no such thing like "Uh, Oh, we need to improve Siri! NOW!!" and it doesn't help if Apple just change it's name to "Siri Ultra". AI specialists don't want to work for Apple since Apple is super closed and wants to keep everything secret. Specialists want to share their results and collaborate with other specialists.

If Apple misses the AI thing the same way it missed the cloud, this is bad news. TC should remove the VR goggles from his head and face reality.
 
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