Almost like they have been doing AI quietly in the background for years using mostly Machine Learning instead of LLMs.
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Google App for iOS Can Now Use AI to Summarize Articles
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Please stop calling it "AI". Summarising text doesn't require intelligence, just smart language modelling.
I don't see Apple doing a chatbot search engine like ChatGPT. They may use smaller LLMs to allow smarter interactions in more restricted domains like automation, music, calendars, and email.
Watch out for the AI generated comments about AI summarizing AI generated articles. It’s AI turtles all the way down.
Same here, using only gmail and YouTube.
But Apple and all this non stop talking about privacy started to sound so scripted to me and fake that I really started doubting their good intentions. I feel more like I am being brainwashed rather than protected. There is not one single interview with Cook where he doesn’t say “At Apple we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right”. He sounds so fake and frustratingly scripted that I don’t trust them anymore either.
After all they are in business to make big money and particularly in the last decade they really showed us their infinite greed. I would not be surprised if tomorrow we find out that they are in complete beach.
Apple sacrifice Siri's intelligent exactly for not doing this kind of thing. Yes, she is stupid, but at least she isn't creepy.
That's quite technical hurdle to jump, but we'll see. If AI is going to intrude into my life more, I would like it to be local for privacy's sake. But the are energy and memory costs. I think ChatGPT supposedly cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to run per day. Apple can reduce some of the burden by training the networks on their networked systems, and then only using the trained weights locally on the mobile device. Still, that would be a lot of information and energy use would be high. I gather than one of the barriers to self-driving cars is not the sensors or the AI, but the energy required to run the local AI in the car.
What do you mean? They’re completely trustworthy (to harvest all your data).
Well the question is whether more efficient network configurations would require fewer degrees of freedom to achieve the same performance. I sometimes wonder if LLM's are just glorified regressions massively over-fitting data (of course our brains might operate that way 😂).
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As a teacher here, this is a nightmare for trying to get kids to summarize things in their own words. ChatGPT has already impacted submitted work. As much as I love technology, sometimes it's not always the best way to do things, and it's being utilized to our detriment. We're dumbing down our society and encouraging "lowest common denominator thinking" more and more every day. I wish tech companies would think bigger picture when it comes to AI and tread more carefully when implementing its use.
I only skimmed that article…macOS has had this for years:
How to use Summarize in macOS to shorten documents | AppleInsider
The Mac has a built-in tool to summarize long documents and generate a shorter, more concise version. Here's how to use it.appleinsider.com
Of course the privacy thing is marrketing, but I still think apple fairs better than google.
Testing out an new AI system on the public is an experiment, whether the tech companies like to acknowledge that or not. I believe that human participants in AI experiments should have the same rights as those in medical, biological, and behavioural research (based historically on the Nuremberg Code). This includes informed consent, and for children that entails consent of their parent or guardian as well as the child. The godawful legal gobbledygook of EULA's would not count in other research fields as a proper consent form.
I still think that's just a line Apple uses to explain why Siri is bad.
The other day I told Siri to remind me something when I got home. I could see on the screen it understood me correctly. It knows where my home is. It has access to my reminders. Failed three times until I realized I had left cellular data turned off. Why in the world does it need internet access for that?
Apple just dropped the ball with Siri, they bought something that turned out to be a technological dead-end and they ignored it for far too long.
I am not saying Apple does not have a stronger privacy stance than most multinational corporations, but I am saying that in this case they are using it as an excuse for an inferior product. Hopefully until soon in Apple style they release a completely new version and immediately pretend the old version never existed.
As far as I know EULAs are only enforceable based on precedent from the 90s that no one ever successfully overturned. I would say we really need legislation on this but I'm afraid they'd somehow make it even worse.