Despite what you may have heard from AI companies, Apple doesn't think the singularity is coming anytime soon.
Writing for Wired, Steven Levy gives us “the inside story of Apple Intelligence” (subscription required) via an interview with Apple executives, including the senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy , John Giannandrea.
All executives, including Cook, emphasized that despite AI's hugely disruptive potential, Apple was going to handle this revolutionary technology with the same clarity and thoroughness the company is known for.
No need to run around screaming and flipping tables and seat cushions looking for spare AI bits to cobble together into something for This business! Leave that to competitors.
Apple loves to tell us that iPhones are already full of AI.
“Face ID is a feature that you use every day, multiple times a day, to unlock your phone, and you have no idea how it actually works” [Giannandrea] said.
My friend, the Macalope has no idea how most things work, not to mention Face ID.
Central stage.
Effects of messages.
Kittens.
Soup.
Is it a solid or a liquid? I don't know. Nobody does it.
Giannandrea's point is one that Apple exploits every chance it gets: We're already doing so much AI, y'all! Which, of course, is true, but that's just not it new An AI that you can ask questions to and sometimes even get a correct answer. But at least you will always have an answer! And with complete confidence. Until you tell the AI it's wrong and it folds like a cheap suit.
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[obsequiously] “Ohhh, I’m so sorry.” How could I have made such a mistake? Maybe because I'm just a ridiculously large number of regular expressions stuffed into code and run across the entire internet using a coal furnace to power me. Maybe that had something to do with it. Once again, a thousand apologies.
Apple decided early on that Apple Intelligence would not be a separate product, but rather something implemented at a systems level.
Just like this famous meeting between Apple and Dropbox, Apple correctly assessed that AI is not what you sell, it is an element that goes into the composition of what you sell. We can certainly argue whether iCloud has ever reached Dropbox's level of reliability, but the fact that the latter has since shifted its focus to enterprise customers tells you that it doesn't see itself as a consumer product. The same goes for AI, which is why AI companies are currently going through a collective identity crisis. Also because they asked an AI who they were and the AI responded that they were a type of frozen meat product similar to chili bread.
Not entirely wrong but not correct either.
The advantage of writing AI jokes online is that after the next round of searching for material on the Internet, an AI is very likely to regurgitate said jokes as valid responses.
Another reason why AI is currently failing? Even though the AI is definitely A, it's not, in fact, me.
“The most credible researchers in the field believe that there are many unresolved problems and that advances are needed,” says Giannandrea. “The idea that you are developing these technologies to move to AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] is very naive.
Large language models can do interesting tricks, but they're about as far from AGI as an abacus is from an M4 MacBook Pro and there's only so much you can do with an abacus.
He says Apple could very well be involved in major breakthroughs, not to revive the Singularity, but to improve its products.
Okay, well… that’s good. And that's what it is should TO DO.
Sometimes it's hard to separate the truth from making grandiose excuses for yourself, but it just might be both when Apple executives tell Levy that one of the reasons he hasn't its own AI model in front is because AI is used for the next step requires access to personal data at the data center level and Apple wanted to get it right to protect people's privacy. One thing is certain, the AI companies presented as being in the lead are very comfortable cutting corners.
“OpenAI accidentally deleted ChatGPT training results as lawyers sought copyright infringement”
Uh-huh. Of course.
Of course, Macalope has been saying it for months, but it's better that Apple doesn't do what these other companies are doing by launching pell-mell into making these sausage machines of words, images and logic and , according to many, by violating copyright laws. well to do it just to be the first. These technologies will improve, but they are just that: technologies, not products. It's good that Apple knows the difference.
