a sunny day with blue skies. an apple orchard. an apple pie with the word “Apple” carved into the crust. –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8
“Apple just announced a ton of incredible AI developments at WWDC. The most impressive reveals:
1. Using the iPad calculator as a notepad and getting real-time answers
“2. Apple Intelligence: Apple’s first AI system is coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac
“4. Apple Intelligence will allow Siri to have on-screen awareness and take actions on a user’s behalf
“6. Apple Intelligence feature in Mail understands the content of emails and surfaces the most urgent messages to the top of inboxes
“8. Apple Genmoji: A new way to create emojis on-device using Apple Intelligence
“10. Since Apple Intelligence understands personal context, AI-generated images can be personalized to users
“One thing that is clear when you talk to OpenAI & you could see in the Apple announcement today is that they are very comfortable with the idea that AI is able to figure stuff out. Lots of complex API connections & contingencies? Sure, the AI will (soon) be able to figure it out” / X
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash – Bloomberg
Why Is Apple (AAPL) Teaming Up With OpenAI? Both Companies Need Each Other – Bloomberg
“Apple and OpenAI partner up to directly integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPasOS 18, and macOS
“Everyone gest an exec assistant with Siri Siri will summarize your emails, with intelligence summaries, (not just first lines on the email) Also time sensitive emails will be prioritized at the top (dinner tonight, flights)
“ChatGPT integration isn’t as deep as a I expected. Does this mean Apple trained their own language and image models for everything else they showcased?” / X (Short answer – YES)
“very happy to be partnering with apple to integrate chatgpt into their devices later this year! think you will really like it.” / X
“Siri can now take commands *within* apps
Elon Musk reconsiders phone project after Apple Intelligence OpenAI integration
“If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation.” / X
OpenAI CTO Responds to Elon Musk Calling Apple Partnership ‘Creepy Spyware’ – YouTube
OpenAI CTO Responds to Elon Musk Calling Apple Partnership ‘Creepy Spyware’ – YouTube
“This is a great little example of how simple agent-based systems can lead to emergent behavior, even with tiny AIs like Apple’s on-device LLM. Matt Webb built a demo AI smart home, when he asks it “turn on the light for my dog” the home figures out how.
“Apple AI on device is equivalent to other tiny models. Apple AI Server is equivalent to GPT-3.5ish Frontier models they are not, but will still give you supercharged Siri & okay-ish writing help. I don’t think this has much to do with high-end use cases.
“How will Apple walk the fine line of massively deploying AI on phones and computers w/o compromising privacy? Good blog post explaining how Apple wants to walk this fine line 🧵” / X
Introducing Apple’s On-Device and Server Foundation Models – Apple Machine Learning Research
Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac – The Verge
“Apple Intelligence is the company’s new generative AI offering
“Apple will reportedly reveal a new AI system called ‘Apple Intelligence’ at WWDC tomorrow at 10 AM PST The announcement will reportedly also come alongside a partnership with OpenAI, a flurry of new AI features, and software upgrades across its product lines
Report: Apple to launch iOS 18 AI features marketed as ‘Apple Intelligence’ – 9to5Mac
“So many customization options from Apple! Home screen, control center, iMessage text effects, photos… I kinda love it
“Siri 2 apple intelligence will be integrated across Macbook, iPhones and iPads That’s powerful.
Introducing Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac – Apple
Apple WWDC 2024 What to Expect: AI, iPadOS, iOS 18, macOS 15, Siri Updates, More – Bloomberg
Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements – The Verge
Apple brings free call recording and transcription to iPhones; journalists rejoice | Nieman Journalism Lab
“Creators are gonna LOVE iPhone mirroring — so they can do all their posting remotely via native apps for X, Instagram, YT shorts etc which often have a lot more functionality than posting via the web client.
“iPhone Mirroring! Now you can use your iPhone on your Mac, while using Mac Virtual Display on AVP, so you never have to take it off! I can finally drop my Studio Displays and Pro Display XDR!
“iPadOS 18 Math Notes feature is WILD! 🔥🔥 No doubt about this. #WWDC24
Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 – The Verge
iOS 18 Siri – AI, advanced in-app features, more features
“Apple’s reality distortion field is strong. It’s kinda wild that with “semantic index,” Apple is basically doing what Microsoft wants to do with AI recall + Copilot, and without any of the big brother backlash. Semantic index means all your private content (messages, emails,” / X
“Data aggregation with privacy: Apple can enable you to find your content across apps, for example finding your Drivers licence number and then filling a form for you.
Apple’s AI promise: “Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple” | Ars Technica
“Everyone’s expecting a reborn Siri at WWDC today. Well, Apple already published a paper on it that disclosed way more details than what we expect from Apple. It’s called “Ferret-UI”, a multimodal vision-language model that understands icons, widgets, and text on iOS mobile
“Yesterday Apple strongly advocated for on-device AI with @Apple Intelligence! Today, we know they will run ~3B LLM on device (Mac, iPhone, iPad) using fine-tuned LoRA Adapters for different tasks, claiming to outperform other 7B and 3B LLMs! 👀 What we know: 📱 On-device 3B
“This talk from Apple is the best ad for fine tuning that probably exists. They are also using adapters (and hot swapping IIUC)
“Apple’s AI will rewrite your emails (standard and expected feature) and summarize emails.
“As always, Apple demonstrates their dominance in tech as they unveil the future of integrated generative AI services into their full stack of devices and software. Check out what a truly integrated AI assistant, system-wide, looks like with their new Siri: #WWDC
“Power On: Apple’s AI push isn’t so much about its current devices, but enabling its next wave of hardware from AR glasses to AirPods with cameras to potentially humanoid robots and more.
“Many people are mocking Apple’s “Private Cloud Compute” as any other cloud service with the same guarantees and privacy concerns. Please, read a bit before you make yourself a clown before everyone else. Some notes about Apple’s Private Cloud Compute:
1. Apple can’t access your data, even if they want to. Under any circumstances.
2. Your data is never retained, logged, or used for debugging.
3. An attacker can’t access a specific user’s data without compromising the entire system. Even if an attacker gets physical access to a node, they won’t be able to compromise the rest.
4. Security researchers have access to verify Apple’s privacy and security guarantees.
5. Apple is using custom-built server hardware using Apple silicon. They use the same Secure Enclave and Secure Boot they’ve used on the iPhone.
6. They created a new secure operating system with a narrow attack surface.
7. They replaced existing general-purpose cloud components that everyone uses (like remote shells and observability tools) with custom, more secure components.
There’s a ton of serious security research and engineering behind the Private Cloud Compute. Apple has been working on it for years, and the result looks really good.
“Love how @Apple is advocating for on-device AI at WWDC . Local, smaller, specialized models are the future of private, secure and efficient AI.” / X
“🚀 Chat with MLX 0.2 is here – a whole new LLM experience on your Apple Silicon Mac! 🍎 – Revamped UI/UX – Fully-featured Chat UI – Chat, Completion, Model Manager – Better and Faster RAG Upgrade your AI conversations now! 💻 GitHub –
“Ok I take it back. Apple’s ‘Private Cloud Computing’ actually takes ‘Confidential Computing’ to the next level. It’s SO secure that they can’t even comply with law enforcement requests. > No data retention (unlike every other cloud provider) > No privileged access (even Apple
“Actually, really liked the Apple Intelligence announcement. It must be a very exciting time at Apple as they layer AI on top of the entire OS. A few of the major themes. Step 1 Multimodal I/O. Enable text/audio/image/video capability, both read and write. These are the native” / X
“I wonder how many Apple users know that iCloud isn’t fully managed by Apple? 🤔 Surprise! It’s actually a ‘hybrid cloud’ that leans heavily on Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. Rivals in the streets. Lovers in the sheets. That’s just how it goes in Silicon Valley.
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AI News #37: Week Ending 06/14/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 7 Must-Read Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
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- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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