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Apple Acquires French AI Company Specializing in On-Device Processing
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And if you're Microsoft, then you don't even buy the whole company (OpenAI) and instead invest a ton of money via cloud compute credits.
Not many people stay at a single company for their entire working lives but when Bertrand Serle, Scott Forstall, Tony Fadell, Jobs and a couple others left Apple the writing was on the wall.
Out went those who truly cared about the products Apple made and in came Cook & his Stooges and slit the neck of the golden goose.
Except that it's actually not true and, as has been mentioned many times, being critical of a company people love does not equate to "Doom & Gloom".
Which weird parallel world are you posting from?
Cook has been around for 25 years and was highly trusted by Jobs. He has been responsible for Appleās expansion for the whole time.
Federighi was with Jobs at NeXT.
Schiller is still active at Apple and has been around since most of you were born.
They have an internal university established by Jobs to teach new employees Appleās vision.
Jobs left behind a roadmap and there are a ton of patents and idea from that time still under development.
Everything is better than before.
They always play the the same strategy. Let competition release **** quality products and then release a better quality version.
If a product fails itās because the market didnāt care for it. Itās a bubble product. Things return to the mean. Everyone just wants a fast device that is private and easy to use.
Somewhat true, they are rushing to catch up. The concern I have is the over-hyping of iOS18, Appleās late start makes it more likely that you wonāt see major AI advancements until 2025, at the earliest, on iPhone.
Open Ai wonāt exist for a day with out Microsoft cloud credits. Apple would be paying billions of $$ to Microsoft.
What better way to implement reinforcement learning in consumer AI systems then judging the emotional state of the consumer from their face (smiling -> reinforcement; frowning, clinched teeth etc -> punishment)? If they added a profanity detector then they'd be on to a winner.
Erm... it has been estimated that it costs OpenAI $700,000 a day to run ChatGPT. That's ~255 million per year. The new LLM's have a massive number of free parameters, and it is takes a massive amount of energy, processing power and storage capacity to run ChatGPT as a result. And, as I recall, that was just for CHATGPT 3.5, let alone ChatGPT 4.
The irony is that most of AI is modelled on human information processing, which requires distributed codes entailing a massive number of processing nodes and a huge number of connections. Companies interested in on-device AI might be better served by looking at neural processing in invertebrates, which have far fewer neurons, but dedicated to specific information processing tasks, and much sparser connectivity among neurons (nodes). I suspect at some point we'll be seeing custom chips with baked in connections rather like the nervous system of insects. So far computer scientists have been trying to mimic brain functionality without looking at anatomy (structure). That approach is going to hit a wall of limited energy and finances.
Itās that kind of stuff exactly that worries me about Apple. For the first time in a long time they have simultaneously released a big flop hardware product, canceled a major project completely, and missed the boat on the actual ānext big thingā to the point that they smell a little of desperation.
Earlier this year, they also acquired DarwinAI.
In 2021 they acquired Curious AI.
In 2020, Voysis and Xnor.ai
In 2019, PullString
In 2018, Laserlike and Silk Labs
in 2017 Lattice Data
These are all in AI and related fields. Apple has been building up skills in AI. Of course we havenāt seen that applied to Siri but it seems like Siri was seen as a lot cause within Apple anyway. Now they have a chance for Siri to be reborn.
