Apple's decision to focus on fairly limited AI models while using outside firms for more ambitious (and unpolished) models makes sense from a PR perspective. This way Apple gains most of the benefits of having AI on their phones, while dodging tarnish to their brand when the model running on their phones starts telling people to eat glue, since that's the AI company's fault
As a former Apple employee, I'm so glad I don't have to attend these events (WWDC) and can get a fun summary from you guys! If the pied piper had been around (Steve Jobs), he would have productized AI into something amazing and would have allowed for another generation of incredible tech... instead Apple is the laggard that it always was when he's out of the picture. If they had found a way to use the incredible ocean of data they have access to they could probably create the bets LLM on the planet. Instead we will probably end up with the AI version of Apple Maps, which is horrific.
What's to stop X from changing its mind about likes and suddenly making them public again, though? Given some of the sudden changes they've rolled out without seemingly thinking about consequences.
I don't care to defend Musk, but I understand why he might be irritated that his angel investment in openAI as a non-profit was ultimately used to create a for-profit company. A gentleman's agreement as the basis, however, is completely on him.
Although in the law there is the "doctrine of clean hands" in which Musk kind of blew his argument (no matter how seemingly valid) when he suggested (in emails) that OpenAI be folded in to his for-profit company, Tesla 😉.
So, are likes actually going to be unavailable for others (except for Twitter) to see, or will some clever coder out there create a browser addon that will make likes visible to anyone willing to install it? Like the Dislike button on YT.
