Here in one paper is the probable reason why Apple abruptly pulled out of OpenAI's current funding round a week ago, after previously being expected to buy at least a billion bucks of equity.
(AI is peripheral to Apple's business model and not tarnishing their brand in the long term is more important than jumping on a passing fad.)
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Florian Idelberger
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Sevoris
in reply to Florian Idelberger • • •that may in part be a campaign to gather information on possible interaction workflows.
They‘re maybe also prototyping API designs for being able to pipe semantic information between different applications.
Florian Idelberger
in reply to Sevoris • • •Sevoris
in reply to Florian Idelberger • • •that depends on how you think about the interaction workflows around people manipulating and moving information between applications.
I mean yes it‘s a poisoned data source, and it‘s definitely a compromise, but it‘s not like "I want this from my digital assistant" isn‘t data that can be used in some shape or form.
Jeremy Kahn
in reply to Sevoris • • •> I want [this] from my digital assistant
is 1000% valuable product-direction research data
Current systems are basically outsourcing to call-center style labeling factories — with a bit of ML laundering in between — & this fully pre-dates the LLM boom (Facebook M,? & when Siri was new)
Recent LLM innovation has let them do more of the ML laundering and time shifting by throwing compute at it
But they're still mostly emulating what a call-center drone can do
Jeremy Kahn
in reply to Jeremy Kahn • • •That "emulate form without doing actual reasoning" is so effective at charming the executive class into throwing money at it…
…is kinda damning of the executive class' own "genius" intellectual self-regard
They themselves have used prose-based discriminative pattern-matching (& privilege) to get where they are, not actual reasoning
"That guy fast-talks like he knows what he's talking about, put him in charge of a division" is no way to run a system of {governance}