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Microsoft Planning Privacy-Focused Version of ChatGPT as Apple AI Efforts Flounder
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It only took one disruptive change and Apple is done. A trillion dollar company that didn't manage to follow the technical evolution and tried to lock competition out, while it didn't notice that it also locked itself in. Apple missed the complete cloud/container evolution and now it misses the whole AI thing, which already is "the next big thing".
Apple refused to allow CUDA on the Mac - but CUDA is THE language that is used a lot for machine learning. And yes, it is from Nvidia, Apple finally banned from Macs.
Tim should step back. Phil, Scott and all the "old" guys should follow. Apple needs some fresh start with fresh ideas and it should enter competition again. Make macOS the best platform for machine learning, implement the best version of OpenGL/Vulkan and be compatible/competitive again.
Apple refused to allow CUDA on the Mac - but CUDA is THE language that is used a lot for machine learning. And yes, it is from Nvidia, Apple finally banned from Macs.
Tim should step back. Phil, Scott and all the "old" guys should follow. Apple needs some fresh start with fresh ideas and it should enter competition again. Make macOS the best platform for machine learning, implement the best version of OpenGL/Vulkan and be compatible/competitive again.
Crypto - Math turned into a scam
NFT - Same math turned into a slightly different scam
GPT et. al. - Will be a scam as soon as someone figures out how to make money off of it.
The problem is curation. How do you know what or whom to trust? If the past decade hasn't taught us anything about distrusting your sources - any sources - then it won't matter. If you do worry about it, then GPT is useless, because you have NO idea how it's forming its opinions or who benefits from them.
I see lots of jabs about Microsoft and privacy but do you know who will sign a BAA with a healthcare company? Microsoft. You know who wont? Apple and Google. T
A brief 'What If…' interlude, if I may.
What if… Apple's reticence (or slow decision making) to fully embrace our new AI-overlords turns out to be the foundation of humanity's last defence against the coming machine onslaught. They've been the underdog before (the 90s remembers), so should understand the brief 🤞🤖
Failing to invest heavily in generative text AI, and not building on Siri looks like Apple's biggest misstep of a generation. Maybe their first big one.
Apple either need to double down and just focus on amazing hardware or get out in front. Right now Siri is dated and leaks comfirm it. Maybe apple aren't interested in this space?
Apple either need to double down and just focus on amazing hardware or get out in front. Right now Siri is dated and leaks comfirm it. Maybe apple aren't interested in this space?
This is going to be a such a problem in the future. You already have predictions of this creating jobs, and then eliminating them later on. Thought dot.com was bad you haven’t seen nothing yet as far as AI acting automated bots.
You are probably loosing it. First there are more than three technology innovations happening in the world. And during early times, lots have failed and some succeed. But to sum up your examples;
cryptocurrencies are more an ideological idea transplanted on to a non-existent need, in general few people need decentralized untraceable money – quite a few wants it but do not actually need it.
NFTs are a solution to a problem that people in general don't understand, only artists trying to commercialize their work understand what it try to solve. But because it only applies to digital art and ended up being used for silly projects with inflated prices, it was dead even before it hit the water.
ChatGPT however is the tip of the iceberg of what AI can do. Unlike crypto and nft that are only used by a few eccentric individuals, ChatGPT is used by a lot more people. And while it will not replace all humans, it is a tool that anyone should experiment with, either because it can help their work or to know where technology is moving. ChatGPT will improve, and even today it is incredible what it can create. But remember that it is the underlying technology that will revolutionize the different industries. Take as example Photoshop, the software has so many AI controlled tools that you soon don't need to even know how to use the program. For many of the tools could be that you don't need them, but you might want them. And if you don't know what they do at some point the question will not be if you need it, but if we need you.
Siri was never meant to be a AI, just a useful search agent that could allow you hands free to gather some facts or math answers from the web. Sure we all made fun of it, but at least its never got us under the microscope like ChatGPT would. That’s likely why Apple has been avoiding this topic for years because they see it as a legal quagmire that would derail their products once the negative impressions start to form about is the information your AI bot legit or is it what you want to hear?
Last time they allowed Siri to communicate out, there was massive uproar over it and they immediately decided to triple down on their privacy motto. Apple knows that privacy is a huge selling point of these devices, so they’re not going to risk it at the moment. It’s not hard for them, but the customers got very heated about it. We’re the reason why Siri is dumb.
Did Apple flounder the gaming industry?
They made more money off mobile gaming than Microsoft did off of the Xbox and Windows gaming in 2021, so…
I’m going to say… No. No they didn’t.
Apple earned the third-most gaming revenue in 2021, outpacing Microsoft & Nintendo | AppleInsider
In 2021, Apple ranked third in gaming revenue amongst global public companies, just behind Sony and ahead of Microsoft.appleinsider.com
Now you can dive deep into if mobile gaming is actual “true” gaming or not, but gamers lie. Money doesn’t.
And apple is making a lot of money off of mobile gaming.
I'm talking about Mac Gaming
HIPPA is a crock. Everyone gets to see your health records, and do anything they want with them, except doctors and nurses. This is to protect you. Only .gov could come up with something like that
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I recall an episode of Star Trek Voyager in which they come upon a race of people who had never heard music before. The Doctor sings and it is practically a Beatlemania (Doctormania?) story. This planet wants the Doctor to leave Voyager and stay to entertain them with this new thing called music. Voyager needs the Doctor to stay with the ship and be the Doctor.
In the end, the people of the planet program a new musician(s) who can "sing" in ways far beyond what we humans- and The Doctor- consider music. The Doctor is no longer needed because their AI musician(s) took music far beyond what humans could appreciate/know.
I hope this is not going to be that. I guess I enjoy the conceit of human creativity being the pinnacle of creativity. If the computers become more creative, our position at the top of many chains will take a hit. I'd rather cling to being King of the Mountain than ceding it to piles of silicon.
Can you provide an exact example of what you're trying to have it source, as well as the correct source, and what it gave you as an incorrect source?
I believe this is due to the way prompts are being written – in every single instance so far I've been able to get it to give me a valid answer when people have had your experience. I'd like to try your example to see if I can finally see the hallucinations other people report.
I get them if I give it a very simple prompt, but if I give it a thorough prompt and tell it how to approach answering without leading it to the answer I've had enormous success, to the point where I wonder if people are totally under-estimating the capabilities of this tool as it exists in its current state.
Would love to give yours a shot, you can PM me if you don't want to post it publicly (and no, I'm not affiliated with OpenAI or any other related company), I'm just doing some side-project research in this field for my own purposes.
Apple has the capital and the tech to be able to do some serious training and engineering around the more robust AI systems we're seeing. honestly, i see it as much more of a value add than an AR headset. My (albeit short) wish list for siri:
- Fix garbage connection issues between devices and siri
- Connect to ChatGPT or something similar to get more nuanced and complex responses
- Fix garbage connection issues between devices and siri
- Connect to ChatGPT or something similar to get more nuanced and complex responses
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Apple’s results are coming Thursday and I’m sure my investment in AAPL will continue to grow.
Microsoft Planning Privacy-Focused Version of ChatGPT as Apple AI Efforts Flounder
How many times have we heard the same junk about Apple? Apple is late, Apple is behind, Apple is irrelevant, Apple needs to get its act together, Siri sucks, Safari sucks, macOS sucks, only to see Apple go on to dominate a market segment.Apple’s results are coming Thursday and I’m sure my investment in AAPL will continue to grow.
A bit of a challenge to this comment: Apple is paid, an obscene amount, to make Google the default search engine. If users, that value their personal data, don't switch that is their problem.
I'm happy that Apple pockets the b-b-b-billions and it makes me smile every time I switch off the Google default.
Happens to all of us eventually.
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A lot of hype for sure. It is handy for some things but I do believe it’s here to stay and you’ll find yourself using it or something like it before you know it.
They do but at least for me personally piracy is too much trouble and risk these days and the software / media companies mostly make it not worth it lately. But they are on a bad trajectory and starting to make me wonder. I bought The Office from Apple but they make me watch it in their now ad-filled TV app. Starting to miss just watching shows on VLC without stupid restrictions.
Apple will continue to grow, but I have serious doubts they will catch-up in this specific field. I hope I'm wrong, but due to their company culture, internal politics, and technology stack they are far more focused on specific product niches vs. a generalized approach. Apple Legal would also probably prevent them from scraping as much data as these other tools (rightly or wrongly) have.
If you read about the inner workings of the Siri team from multiple ex-members, you can see how dogmatic they are. I truly think Apple have missed the boat on this, but it won't cost them market share necessarily – almost nobody is buying a laptop to run a neural network, and what "AI" acceleration Apple offers is more than enough for consumers.
It sucks as a scientist, though. I hope I'm proved wrong with the Mac Pro, but I'd bet high odds on that being a machine to serve creatives and not scientists, I think Apple are out of that market for good, sadly. If tools do come, which some have, I think they are going to be developed by third parties and "happen" to run on MacOS, or leverage a specific facet of the Apple Silicon chips, like Stable Diffusion etc. LLMs are a whole other can of worms and I'd love an in-house Apple alternative but I just don't see it happening any time soon with their current leadership.
Turns out Apple’s slow approach to AI is the responsible one.
How many tech leaders are asking for a 6 month moratorium on AI development.
And what was the name of the “godfather of AI” who recently quit Microsoft to warn us about AI development speed? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
How many tech leaders are asking for a 6 month moratorium on AI development.
And what was the name of the “godfather of AI” who recently quit Microsoft to warn us about AI development speed? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
One would think after thousands of hours conducting car AI systems that Apple clearly understands you cannot race into technology without fully thinking about all the good and bad possibilities.
In the United States and Europe, approximately two-thirds of current jobs “are exposed to some degree of AI automation,” and up to a quarter of all work could be done by AI completely, the bank estimates.
If generative artificial intelligence “delivers on its promised capabilities, the labor market could face significant disruption,” the economists wrote. The term refers to the technology behind ChatGPT, the chatbot sensation that has taken the world by storm.