According to a recent claim from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is working on building AI chatbot (Apple GPT) capabilities to compete with OpenAI, Google, and other companies in the field. The multinational technology corporation has developed a chatbot that some of its developers call internally “Apple GPT.” Apple has not yet devised a plan for making the technology available to customers, but the company is apparently planning to make a substantial announcement about artificial intelligence in the next year.
According to the article, Apple has developed its own framework, which has been given the codename “Ajax,” in order to generate big language models. big language models are AI-based systems that underpin services like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
According to Bloomberg, Ajax is hosted on Google Cloud and was developed using Google JAX, which is the machine learning framework developed by the search giant. A ChatGPT-like tool used internally at Apple is being built on top of Ajax, which is being used to generate huge language models and serve as the tool’s base.
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Due to worries over generative AI security, the chatbot’s internal distribution was temporarily suspended, but it has subsequently been made available to additional Apple workers. The chatbot is becoming increasingly accessible to employees, but access requires special authorization. According to Bloomberg, any output from the chatbot cannot be utilized to create features aimed at users.
The chatbot is being used by Apple staff to assist with product development. Based on the data it was trained with, the chatbot may be used to summarize text and provide answers to queries.
The company’s chatbot is comparable to Bard, ChatGPT, and Bing AI since it lacks any further capabilities that set it apart from what is already on the market.
The claim comes at a time when Apple is looking for expertise in generative AI. On its career page, the organization offers a few job openings looking for generative AI specialists. It seeks engineers who have a “robust understanding of large language models and generative AI.”
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Apple has been very silent on the AI front in comparison to other tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, which have been working aggressively to bring their generative AI technologies to market. Although the tech giant has been releasing AI capabilities across its products and applications for some years, it is currently trying to catch up with the demand that customers have for generative AI tools that can assist with activities such as the creation of essays and photographs.
According to the article, Apple is putting a lot of effort into finding solutions to possible privacy issues associated with artificial intelligence. The chief executive officer of Apple, Tim Cook, has stated that the tech company would introduce artificial intelligence (AI) to more of its products, but that it will do so on a “thoughtful basis.”
Machine learning, a sort of AI, is used by Apple in all of its software and across all of its devices. Its virtual assistant, Siri, already benefits from the Ajax framework and leverages machine learning and natural language processing. Before releasing the first Apple AI chatbot for commercial use, the business is still attempting to work out a strategy for the difficulty of generative AI.
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