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Tim Cook Responds to Rise of ChatGPT, Says AI's Potential is 'Very Interesting'

kingtj1971 said:
I don't think you'll see software any time soon that runs your 3D printer to design original pieces of 3D sculpture/art, for the same reason. Can it be done? Yes. But the results won't be gratifying.
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3D models are hard since they need to remain manifold and have good topology. If this happens, it likely would use voxels. So far researchers have avoided since it is difficult.
 
WilliApple said:
Thanks for the idea! I am making Siri 2.0 right now lol with ChatGPT.

Swift: 
import Foundation
import Intents
import SafariServices
import AVFoundation

func askForInput() -> String {
    let intent = INCreateNoteIntent()
    intent.title = "Please enter your question"
  
    let interaction = INInteraction(intent: intent, response: nil)
    interaction.donate { (error) in
        if let error = error {
            print("Error donating interaction: \(error)")
        }
    }
  
    var inputString = ""
    let semaphore = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)
  
    INInteraction.delete(with: [.all]) { (error) in
        if let error = error {
            print("Error deleting interactions: \(error)")
            semaphore.signal()
            return
        }
      
        INVoiceShortcutCenter.shared.getAllVoiceShortcuts { (voiceShortcuts, error) in
            if let error = error {
                print("Error getting voice shortcuts: \(error)")
                semaphore.signal()
                return
            }
          
            if let shortcut = voiceShortcuts?.first(where: { $0.invocationPhrase == "Ask for input" }) {
                shortcut.shortcut.perform(withCompletionHandler: { (intent, error) in
                    if let question = (intent as? INCreateNoteIntent)?.content {
                        inputString = question
                      
                        // Search the internet for an answer
                        let urlString = "https://www.google.com/search?q=\(inputString.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: .urlQueryAllowed) ?? "")"
                        if let url = URL(string: urlString) {
                            let safariViewController = SFSafariViewController(url: url)
                            UIApplication.shared.windows.first?.rootViewController?.present(safariViewController, animated: true, completion: {
                              
                                // Extract and speak the first answer from the search results
                                let script = "var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('Z0LcW'); elements.length > 0 ? elements[0].innerText : '';"
                                safariViewController.dismiss(animated: true) {
                                    let webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero)
                                    UIApplication.shared.windows.first?.rootViewController?.view.addSubview(webView)
                                    webView.isHidden = true
                                    let utterance = AVSpeechUtterance(string: "")
                                    webView.evaluateJavaScript(script) { (result, error) in
                                        if let answer = result as? String, !answer.isEmpty {
                                            utterance.speechString = answer
                                        } else {
                                            utterance.speechString = "I'm sorry, I couldn't find an answer to your question"
                                        }
                                        AVSpeechSynthesizer().speak(utterance)
                                        webView.removeFromSuperview()
                                        semaphore.signal()
                                    }
                                }
                            })
                        }
                    }
                })
            } else {
                print("No voice shortcut found")
                semaphore.signal()
            }
        }
    }
  
    semaphore.wait()
    return ""
}

Haven't made the UI, but I asked ChatGPT to make a better Siri in Swift. I bet that is what Apple would do nowadays if they remade Siri.
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This is a great example of how bad ChatGPT is at writing most code. Just look at the use of Semaphores for multithreading!
 
4nNtt said:
This is a great example of how bad ChatGPT is at writing most code. Just look at the use of Semaphores for multithreading!
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Obviously a lot of the examples that ChatGPT is using as its source are using semaphores. LLMs don’t know any difference between good and bad coding design they just offer up the most common usage.
 
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This in todays news

www.cnbc.com

Chinese police arrest man who allegedly used ChatGPT to spread fake news in first case of its kind

Chinese police have arrested a man they allege used ChatGPT to create a fake news article about a train crash.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com

Chinese police arrested a man they allege used ChatGPT to create a fake news article about a train crash, in what appears to be the first case of enforcement action being taken in China under an unprecedented law related to artificial intelligence.

The case highlights Chinese authorities’ push to regulate and control uses of AI as the technology gets more advanced.
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Just be glad Apple is not having to explain or defend itself on this topic to government authorities. Have fun MS.
 
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AI is a meme.

If a company business is good, it will talk about its business. If a company is bad, it will talk about AI so that people will not sell its shares. Apple business is good, so it does not need to talk about AI. Other companies whose business are bad will talk about AI. Companies talking about show that it is a weak company. Strong company don't talk about AI. AI is a sign of weakness. When a company talk about AI, people should sell its shares.
 
steve09090 said:
Like Google Glass? Or Google Music, or Google Allo? Or the MS Zune? All manufacturers have products that are not as good as another, and most have straight out failures. We can all cherry-pick specific products to make a point.

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You’ve made a very flexible point.

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Very well said.
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I’m not a google Stan but I do say that apple will not win a war in VR because there is noooooo WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
MindYourMind said:
What do you think are the needs of general AI?
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Raw materials. Manufacturing facilities. Electricity. Defensive and offensive capability. The same kinds of things humans need to dominate the planet. Machines won't need humans, they just need resources and the ability to have mobility when needed (robots, drones, etc.)
 
Scoob Redux said:
There is no reason to expect that AI won't be capable of creativity.
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Since the human mind is like a photo album, AI will never be able to present humans with something else than the known, impressively re-arranged perhaps, but nevertheless only the known as thoughts in their minds, no matter how sophisticated AI becomes. And the mind is only in the past or in the modified past, which is dubbed by the same mind as the “future”, not in the here and now in life, which is timeless and thoughtless. Fortunately, man has the evolutionary potential to become truly creative as the result of Self-realization, which reveals itself when the mind has been understood deeply.
 
Those who have worries about AI should understand that AI can never become more than a “servant” to those who understand what they really are. Any risk for humans to become the “servants” of AI, would only be due to ignorance as to what they really are.
 
Whilst Tim Cook says AI is very interesting, he should have also said that AI can be damning if not used sensibly and properly.

Anyone that want's to see how AI can be abused, just go to to a well known site that allows artists to show off their work of art. Many good artists are leaving the site because many users are using AI to create derivative works of art. AI is also being used to doctor images of people in the public eye, making the image look more sexualised or more infantile.

The biggest problem with AI is that the designers of AI are not being very responsible regarding it's usage. A classic example of designers not being responsible for their creation is Meta's VR universe. It was created as a means for people around the world to communicate with others and what was it mainly being used for? for sexual reasons and when people complained Meta turned a blind eye until the issue was reported to journalists who created accounts to see for themselves and reported that yes such things were going on and only then did Meta come back saying they would put more moderation in place. AI will suffer the same fate. Already it is being abused and the creators of AI are turning a blind eye to it, in my opinion.
 
laptech said:
Whilst Tim Cook says AI is very interesting, he should have also said that AI can be damning if not used sensibly and properly.
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MacRumors said:
Cook said artificial intelligence's potential is "very interesting," but noted that there are a "number of issues that need to be sorted" out with the technology and that it is "very important to be deliberate and thoughtful" in regards to how artificial intelligence is used.
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According to the original article of this thread, Cook did say AI should be used in a "deliberate and thoughtful" way, which to me sounds pretty similar to what you are saying by it has to be used "sensibly and properly." Cook may not have explicitly stated that AI can be harmful, but he did say there are "issues that need to be sorted." You are right that many AI creators are being irresponsible about how their AI get used, but I think Apple is being more responsible than most, including by not hyping their algorithmic functions as "AI". For instance, when you take pictures with the latest iPhones, the Photo app identifies flowers and plants, tells you their names and shows you links to explore further. Apple could have touted this as AI, but they didn't.
 
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MindYourMind said:
Since the human mind is like a photo album, AI will never be able to present humans with something else than the known, impressively re-arranged perhaps, but nevertheless only the known as thoughts in their minds, no matter how sophisticated AI becomes. And the mind is only in the past or in the modified past, which is dubbed by the same mind as the “future”, not in the here and now in life, which is timeless and thoughtless. Fortunately, man has the evolutionary potential to become truly creative as the result of Self-realization, which reveals itself when the mind has been understood deeply.
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Humans have a limited capacity for creativity as well. I suspect it boils down to the number of free paramters in an information processing system and not much else. AI is way behind us on this score ... for now ... but that might not last long.
 
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