Re:Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neura...
by tzakrajs on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:48AM
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They have tons of computer vision, NN inference and natural language processing in their products. It's reductive to say Apple products don't have much AI.
Re:Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neura...
by wokwokwok on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @06:34AM
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Can you be more specific?
What AI products are present in other ecosystems (eg. Android, Samsung, whatever) and missing from Apple?
Honest question: I find the platform distinction largely meaningless in most cases apart from “what your phone looks like” and “can you side load apps”…
Re:Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neura...
by niek_pas on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:32AM
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I'm not sure what you mean by "AI products", and why you think Apple needs them for their platforms.
Re:Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neura...
by lynx23 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @06:59AM
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I am guessing you are not familiar with the AI-powered vision features that already ship since a few years. Mostly accessibility related, so I am not surprised you missed it.
Re:Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neura...
by devinprater on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:38AM
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Yep. Google, the AI company, only recently launched image descriptions in TalkBack, which VoiceOver has had for years now. Google still doesn't have Screen Recognition, which basically does OCR and image/UI classification to make inaccessible apps more accessible.
Re:Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neura...
by lynx23 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @04:46AM
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Don't get me even started on TalkBack and Android. It was never on-par with VoiceOver, and is still a few years behind... However, VoiceOver is also getting slowly, but surely, worse and worse over time when it comes to small subtle bugs...
Re:Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neura...
by matthewmacleod on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:10PM
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For one thing, I can search for any text I’ve ever take a photo of. Finding a picture of someone I took 20+ years ago by searching for a single work I remember on their t-shirt is pretty cool, and is all done on-device.
I think it’s important to remember that there are a bunch of actual useful AI-driven features out there that aren’t just GenAI chatbots.
So because their first party AI products are so non-existent, I think WWDC is a desperate attempt by Apple to get third party developers to build compelling AI products. I say desperate because they're already a year behind the competition in this space.
(I can imagine they'll be trying to get developers to build Vision Pro software too, though I hear sales there have collapsed so again, way too little, too late)