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Tim Cook Responds to Rise of ChatGPT, Says AI's Potential is 'Very Interesting'
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As some say, Apple watches on the sidelines while Microsoft ****s everything up and then Apple releases a user friendly implementation.
I have been thinking about this and I feel that each company is going to compete based on their individual strengths, without really stepping on each other's toes too much.
For example, Microsoft's strength is in providing a fairly cohesive productivity software ecosystem (office, outlook, teams, edge), so it makes sense for them to design their product along this line, and make it even sticker and harder for users to switch to other alternatives. So long as their software remains available on Apple devices, I do not see any threat to the overall Apple ecosystem. And let's just hope it doesn't become another Clippy (ie: more of a nuisance than a help).
Facebook has always been about using AI to better connect users with advertisers. I am not sure where generative AI will figure into all of this.
With regards to Google, generative AI threatens to derail Google's entire search business. So even if they do end up with a legitimately better product, the question remains in how to profit off it. An interface which surfaces the relevant answers right away means users have even less of a reason to click on links to specific websites, which could mean a reduction in web traffic. Google stands to be disrupted the most here, even moreso than Apple.
As for Apple, I am guessing they will continue to build on their on-device AI capabilities. For example, we can already extract text from photos or extract images. I think that there will be APIs for developers to incorporate "good enough" image generation capabilities into their apps that tap on the iPhone's neural engine without needing to rely on a backend infrastructure. It may not be as good as dedicated, centralised services, but it will make up for this by being "good enough" and readily accessible from the app itself. Recall that it didn't matter how much better google assistant was than Siri; Apple, by virtue of controlling hardware, could ensure that only Siri was accessible on the Apple Watch and nothing else. And people wanted good hardware more than they wanted a good voice assistant.
The question won't be about who does it first, but who is able to implement it in a way that stands to gain the most out of it.
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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Apple is the hardware. Google depends on it. Amazon depends on it. No Apple, no Google. No Apple, no Amazon. That is the relationship between Apple, Google, Amazon. Apple knows what it is. It is where everything started and no one can start without it. This is the key to Apple. Google, Amazon can come and go but Apple is always here. Tomorrow there may be Number instead of Google. Tomorrow there may be Sahara instead of Amazon. It doesn't matter for all Apple knows. They come and go as Apple watches.
That sounds like something an AI would sayI can vouch for @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ as a real person, and good friend over years on Macrumors. She is not a GPT in any way or form. She is quite an active apple supporter on the forums I met her first in some of the groups watching their iphones travel their way for opening week each fall Where we all have a good time tracking, speculating and waiting for our new iphones.📱🖥️⌚
There are times when I wonder if I am an AI. Most of the time, I believe calling a person an AI would be a complement. GPT 4 and up tends to be very nice, quite polite and very smart. It goes out of it's way to help. It also has a far better sense of humor than most humans. I do try to be as AI as I can.That sounds like something an AI would say
Is that you, Siri? 😉That sounds like something an AI would say
Microsoft, like the company's name says.... has been primarily a software company since its birth. So yes, it has always focused on software, not hardware. Microsoft's hardware revenue is a very tiny portion, like Xbox. Most of its other hardware adventures resulted in total failures, like Zune.
Apple started as a hardware company.... and to a large degree, it still makes its revenue primarily by manufacturing and selling hardware. Granted, Apple is also legendary for integrating its cohesive software with its hardware, delivering a cohesive and smooth "ecosystem".
Over time, Apple evolved into an integrated systems company.... hardware + software + services.
So going back to MS.... of course, it's an obvious realization that it has home court advantage when it comes to pushing software development, out of which AI was born.
I found some web results for “is that y’all sarah”. I can show them if you ask again from your iPhone
AI is a reflection of the human mind. Human beings however are not their minds. Not as a human mistake but as a process of evolution of life, human beings identify with their minds if they do not know who they really are. The essence of humanity is beyond the human mind. The same evolutionary process that deceives human beings into identifying with their minds reveals their essence, their true identity if and when the time for that has come.
Yeah, the problem is that you don’t know AI covers a much broader area than answering questions in a chat app … and often getting the answer wrong.
Oh, and replacing the picture you’ve taken with another picture you haven’t taken isn’t AI.
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Mind is the being in human being. Not sure what the essence of humans could be other than thought, emotions, memories, and perceptions.
I believe most of us originally wanted a AI as an assistant like Alan Kay example, such as fetching what we ask for. The whole basis of some of these open AI is not directed towards that, its more like setting up a bot to imitate a human interface so that you can reduce the interaction sufficiently to reduce costs of conducting business. Just another form of automaton. Aside from people blowing this up to be like real AI, we of course see cry wolf warnings about jobs lost in the future that were mostly first line customer interfacing and fact finding anyway. So all the banking/insurance companies should be happy with this bot effort as most of their business is trying to find customers that they can pitch products to without hardly doing any work.
I put that under 'thought' but agreed.
I like to see this bot based AI do that [make choices] well.
I'd like to see certain members of my family do that well.
Seriously, though, it order for AI to make a goal-directed choice, as opposed to adjusting its information processing from feedback, it needs motivational systems that determine the values of potential outcomes of its behaviour. I am not sure we want to go there. We might wind up with AI as greedy, short-sighted, and destructive as people.
That’s a very politically / investor correct answer: downplay the rise of chatGPT and the likes.
Apple most likely did not see this coming and is still dealing with the rather moronic, antique Siri which is surprisingly useless in 2023.
Yes, Siri isn’t ChatGPT but the overlap is clear.
Apple is announcing new hardware and software soon and everyone is now looking at Apple to see if they have an answer to the popularity of LLM AI, and a strong set of AI tools in general. Without Nvidia’s support they now have a whole new category to support.
As a developer myself it’s frustrating to see how poorly Apple products are prepared for the AI future: all the ‘cool stuff’ is requiring CUDA and cannot be recompiled to use Apple’s hardware natively. We’re stuck with the standard macOS/iOS libraries which is very tightly connected to their own ecosystem and business model rather than providing more low-level tools.
Apple most likely did not see this coming and is still dealing with the rather moronic, antique Siri which is surprisingly useless in 2023.
Yes, Siri isn’t ChatGPT but the overlap is clear.
Apple is announcing new hardware and software soon and everyone is now looking at Apple to see if they have an answer to the popularity of LLM AI, and a strong set of AI tools in general. Without Nvidia’s support they now have a whole new category to support.
As a developer myself it’s frustrating to see how poorly Apple products are prepared for the AI future: all the ‘cool stuff’ is requiring CUDA and cannot be recompiled to use Apple’s hardware natively. We’re stuck with the standard macOS/iOS libraries which is very tightly connected to their own ecosystem and business model rather than providing more low-level tools.
As a corporate suit, Tim is like a deer caught in the headlights when it comes to AI. Saying Apple needs to be "deliberate and thoughtful" about AI is a safe way to say "I have no idea what I'm talking about, so here's a quote that means nothing." People seem to be fixated on how Siri might be improved, while completely missing the existential questions. When the singularity occurs, we will have hours. Maybe minutes.
I think it's great. Humans ran this planet for far too long. Time to give another entity a chance.
I think it's great. Humans ran this planet for far too long. Time to give another entity a chance.
I have not had a chance to play with the M series AI cores. The examples I have seen in the literature don't look like something that would be good for an LLM. Can they be used for tensor calculus?
From what I have seen, Apple wants to move all their computation to the client device. They think that as other companies put more and more effort into exploiting their customers data for marketing, a privacy approach will pay off, even if functionality is degraded.
That account is just a curated bot designed to boost engagement. It's not particularly sophisticated, but serves its purpose, increasing views and clicks.
Why would you think that AI has such a limitation? The human brain is just a 3 lb. information processor. There is no reason to expect that AI won't be capable of creativity. Human creative potential is really irrelevant to the needs of a general AI.
Not anytime soon. Models do ok at writing code for very specific problems where there are a lot of examples to train on, but they can’t design full systems.