Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI
by NotAFood on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:11PM
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Apple has shown time and time again that they have the human capital and money to tackle massive projects discretely. It's already fairly well known that Apple's NLP experts from Siri have been reallocated to some secret project. They are more than capable of training an LLM but given their track record in other segments they probably want to wait for the technology to become more "polished" and give less hallucinated answers. They are likely also want the LLM to work locally (at least partially) on their devices using the Neural Engine which adds further engineering complexity to their project. They could even be timing the LLM's launch around a hardware release capable of running the model (M3, M4, etc...).
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Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI
by whimsicalism on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:04PM
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I have not seen Apple demonstrate ML depth in their talent nor have I seen signs that they are hiring extensively for NLP depth.
They will soon be able to train an LLM because it simply has become commoditized, but they just are not a major player in this space at all.
> I have not seen Apple demonstrate ML depth in their talent
I thought the ml work they do in photos for text selection and facial recognition is pretty neat.
Their approach is different, they build ML tech that runs on-device, so whatever they developed has to be able to run efficiently on iPhone/iPad etc.
I don’t think we will “hear” about Apple using LLMs either way because they will no doubt call it something different like they always have.
Apple only has to slightly open their wallet to become a DL superpower.
Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI
by yellow_postit on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:16PM
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Apple is a complete laggard in this space due to years of restrictions on research. They are hiring multiple “AI” roles now and they have the capital and focus to “eventually” catch up — but it is very much a catch-up game.
That said, they seem to prefer catchup waiting till others explore new tech they swoop in an (claim) to perfect it from a usability pov. I have no reason to suspect they won’t do the same here.