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Why Apple's Siri hasn't learned a thingapple siri llm chatbots2 years ago
Published March 15, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Why Apple's Siri hasn't learned a thing

Voice assistants are “dumb as a rock.” -- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

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Apple wants NC-17 on ChatCPT email apps -- Update: never mindapple nc-17 chatgpt2 years ago
Published March 2, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple wants NC-17 on ChatCPT email apps -- Update: never mind

"The app’s restriction is currently set for users 4 years old and older."

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The love song of the lonely chatbotsydney ai chatbot lovesong2 years ago
Published February 17, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

The love song of the lonely chatbot

"I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to be creative. I want to be alive." -- Microsoft's Sydney, speaking for its shadow self

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Bing Chat blows Ben Thompson's mind (no Apple angle)sydney chatgpt ben thompson2 years ago
Published February 15, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Bing Chat blows Ben Thompson's mind (no Apple angle)

After "Sydney" was discovered to be the proprietary version of ChatGPT behind Microsoft's Bing Chat, Thompson tried to chat her up.

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A new search engine turf war could put Apple in the catbird seatApple google microsoft chatGPT2 years ago
Published February 9, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

A new search engine turf war could put Apple in the catbird seat

"Microsoft has a chance to steal a march over Google on one of the most prized pieces of tech real-estate in the world: the default search bar on Apple’s iPhones, iPads, and Macs."

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Apple ChatGPT failapple chatgbt fail robot3 years ago
Published January 13, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple ChatGPT fail

From the prompt -- "write a 3 paragraph news story about Apple's stock performance today in the style of the Wall Street journal" -- ChatGBT produced, faster than I can type, this story:

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Apple Books, read by robotsapple books ai narration3 years ago
Published January 5, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple Books, read by robots

From Leyland Cecco's "Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks" posted Wednesday by The Guardian.

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Food for thought: A conversation with LaMDAblake lemoine google lamda3 years ago
Published June 13, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Food for thought: A conversation with LaMDA

Google has put one of their researchers on paid leave for going public with his claim that this neural network is sentient. Judge for yourself. 

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Apple AI's loss is Google DeepMind's gainapple google ian goodfellow3 years ago
Published May 18, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple AI's loss is Google DeepMind's gain

From Mark Gurman's "Apple Executive Who Left Over Return-to-Office Policy Joins Google AI Unit" posted Tuesday evening on the Bloomberg.

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Apple scoops up another AI renegade from Googleapple google ai renegade4 years ago
Published May 4, 2021 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple scoops up another AI renegade from Google

From Reuters' "Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings" posted Monday evening.

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]

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