cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16391311
Andrej Karpathy endorses Apple Intelligence
Actually, really liked the Apple Intelligence announcement. It must be a very exciting time at Apple as they layer AI on top of the entire OS. A few of the major themes.
Step 1 Multimodal I/O. Enable text/audio/image/video capability, both read and write. These are the native human APIs, so to speak.
Step 2 Agentic. Allow all parts of the OS and apps to inter-operate via "function calling"; kernel process LLM that can schedule and coordinate work across them given user queries.
Step 3 Frictionless. Fully integrate these features in a highly frictionless, fast, "always on", and contextual way. No going around copy pasting information, prompt engineering, or etc. Adapt the UI accordingly.
Step 4 Initiative. Don't perform a task given a prompt, anticipate the prompt, suggest, initiate.
Step 5 Delegation hierarchy. Move as much intelligence as you can on device (Apple Silicon very helpful and well-suited), but allow optional dispatch of work to cloud.
Step 6 Modularity. Allow the OS to access and support an entire and growing ecosystem of LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT announcement).
Step 7 Privacy. <3
We're quickly heading into a world where you can open up your phone and just say stuff. It talks back and it knows you. And it just works. Super exciting and as a user, quite looking forward to it.
Saying Apple is much better than TikTok, Meta and Google, is just setting the bare very low... Apple advertise heavily about how privacy oriented they are, it's only fair to compare them to other privacy champions (regardless of company size) e.g. Proton, Signal.
I absolutely agree with you. It's not possible for most to be a security conscious self-hosting gourou, and we can't expect for everyone to care about digital privacy and security. It's why I see it as our duty, as more tech-savy people, to set the standard for the industry, advocate and lobby for the companies to do better.
You don't ask nurse to set the safety standards for electrical installations, but everyone benefits from electricians and engineers defining and setting these safety standards !
It's actually not that people don't care about privacy. It's they don't know about privacy, because they don't think about it, and it's alright. But ask someone random to hand you over their phone unlocked and start browsing their photos. They will care.
Anyway, I'm glad we could have an educating conversation here. I got to learn a couple of things :)