Isn’t this proof that Apple is NOT working on an equivalent ChatGPT? Else, they’d be using their own LLM instead of cgpt.
I’d expect that Siri group had grown substantially recently and is having a lot of fun, building the next generation.
My experience is of Siri being, if anything, slightly better than a few years back; conversely, half the time Alexa would respond to me saying "Küche hundert prozent" with "Ich kann nicht Küche auf Spotify finden" and we don't even have Spotify.
So, if anyone really thinks Apple is suffering from being "behind" in it, by all means expound on how. I'm genuinely interested.
That’s not to say I think they’re making an equivalent, just that I doubt many of the employees looking to use ChatGPT would have access to their internal LLM even if it was excellent.
It might be good evidence that they won’t be announcing one at WWDC in a couple weeks, since I can imagine they might roll something like that out internally a couple of weeks before launch, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
We would go to lunch fairly frequently - and jeasus those guys were all extremely honorable of their NDA/secrecy - it was impressive.
One of the guys moved to google and worked on some of their first mainboard designs - which was secret at the timew, and I only found out about it when I went to meet him for lunch and I saw a mainboard under his desk and said "ooh whats that!" he freaked out and we got out of there quick....
Some of the hardware at FB in ~2012/13 they designed was really awesome....
I always wonder what happens to these closed HW systems as they uplift/replace them over time. I am sure they are destroyed. Which sucks for many reasons.
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When we built Lucas' presidio campus and converged their DCs to that campus they through out tons of huge SGI boxes - and I was free to take some - but I didnt have any place to put it at the time - and I wish I would have figured that out more earnestly, as SGI always had beautiful cabinets.
They are not at all well positioned and have basically 0 expertise in this space.
They have little expertise in language specifically. Relative to almost all other tech companies, they have a very small amount of the DL practicioner share.
Self driving is a completely orthogonal problem and Apple is mostly relying on classical techniques there, not DL. Hardware groups are not modeling groups.