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Apple says it’s been working on AI research for years, and recent job listings show its current focus, reports the Financial Times.
Over the last few months company has posted dozens of AI jobs in the US, France, and China, looking to fill roles that could help build generative AI tools that use local processing on mobile devices, like this one:
We are seeking a candidate with a proven track record in applied ML research. Responsibilities in the role will include training large scale language and multimodal models on distributed backends, deployment of compact neural architectures such as transformers efficiently on device, and learning policies that can be personalized to the user in a privacy preserving manner.
On Meta’s Q2 earning call Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg called Llama 2, the company’s latest generative AI model, an “open source project.”
Except it’s not actually open source, since its license has usage restrictions. Here’s Stefano Maffulli, the executive director for the Open Source Initiative:
‘Open Source’ means software under a license with specific characteristics, defined by the Open Source Definition (OSD). Among other requirements, for a license to be Open Source, it may not discriminate against persons or groups or fields of endeavor (OSD points 5 and 6). Meta’s license for the LLaMa models and code does not meet this standard; specifically, it puts restrictions on commercial use for some users (paragraph 2) and also restricts the use of the model and software for certain purposes (the Acceptable Use Policy).
[Voices of Open Source]
The Verge’s Josh Dzieza appeared on Vox’s Today, Explained podcast to discuss his recent report on the human element involved in creating the AI tools everyone is talking about lately.
As he wrote then, “a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.”
Following user complaints of GPT-4 becoming “slower and dumber,” OpenAI said it made improvements to APIs on the latest model.
The company asked users to send in evaluations so they can continue to improve its models.
We are working hard to ensure that new versions result in improvements across a comprehensive range of tasks. That said, our evaluation methodology isn’t perfect, and we’re constantly improving it.
Months after we heard Google founder Sergey Brin made a reappearance at Google amidst the rise of ChatGPT, now a report from The Wall Street Journal suggests Brin’s return might be more permanent than we thought.
Sources tell the WSJ that Brin has been visiting Google’s offices three to four days per week to help build Google’s Gemini AI model. Brin has not only “convened weekly discussions of new AI research with Google employees,” but has also taken point in “the hiring of sought-after researchers,” the WSJ reports.
Microsoft has announced that Bing Chat now supports Visual Search (still based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model that was announced in March with image inputs, while Google Bard added image search in May) to “understand the context of an image, interpret it, and answer questions about it.”
The new multimodal search capabilities are rolling out now on desktop and in the Bing mobile app, and Microsoft says it’s working to add it to Bing Chat Enterprise “over time.”
The Vox podcast Unexplainable has started a two-part series on AI by interviewing Sam Bowman, a researcher for Anthropic and professor at NYU, about how AI tools work and how you get from “a really fancy autocomplete tool” to something that seems more like a virtual assistant.
With these neural networks [e.g., the type of AI ChatGPT uses], there’s no concise explanation. There’s no explanation in terms of things like checkers moves or strategy or what we think the other player is going to do. All we can really say is just there are a bunch of little numbers and sometimes they go up and sometimes they go down. And all of them together seem to do something involving language. We don’t have the concepts that map onto these neurons to really be able to say anything interesting about how they behave.
Code in Samsung Internet Browser version 22.0.0.54 has several references to ChatGPT, as spotted by Android Authority.
Android Authority speculates that the integration as is would only be used to generate page summaries. Samsung is reportedly open to replacing Google as its default search engine, possibly due to Microsoft’s quick AI moves, so the idea of the company exploring its options isn’t far-fetched.