It seems that in Cupertino they have a more defined plan than previously thought to break into the field of generative AI. Mark Gurman revealed from Bloomberg that Apple already has its own version of ChatGPT runningwhich some call “AppleGPT”.
This ‘AppleGPT’ would be built on a base called ‘Ajax’ internally, on which many teams of engineers would have worked in recent months in what would be a boost to be able to compete with ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. need to know how.
From setting up your Mac to telling it what to do
Tim Cook himself admitted to having doubts about generative AI in an interview. He acknowledged the promise of tools like ChatGPT, but at the same time said the issues needed to be ironed out before fully trusting something like this. But in the meantime, Microsoft has done its homework and has already shown products like Copilot on Windows.
An AI like this is not hard to imagine on macOS or iOS: imagine not having to learn anything about creating Siri Shortcuts and be able to write directly to the system: “I want you to convert all the images in this folder to PNG and resize them to 512 pixels in height”. It would save us a lot of time.
They have the tool, they don’t intend
Apparently, this “AppleGPT” suffered restrictions even internally: it was born from an internal experiment between some engineers and Apple itself applied an authorization system to be able to use it (John Giannandrea and Craig Federighi would be responsible). At the moment, among its capabilities, support with prototyping and problem solving is mentioned.
It shows that Apple has this AI as an internal experiment and needs to find a way in which the public can use it usefully. Don’t stay with what ChatGPT and Bard already offer, but go further
Gurman thinks Apple wants to present something related to this AI from 2024, so they have a few months to be able to make sense of what they’ve created. It could be an evolution of Siri or something completely new. We’ll see as the rumors progress, but it’s good news that Cupertino didn’t rise to their laurels with this.
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