🥟 Chao-Down #197 Apple's approach to generative AI, NVIDIA and iPhone maker Foxconn team up to build 'AI factories', YouTube builds an AI tool to let creators sing using musicians' voices

Apple is gearing up to respond to the AI revolution by developing generative AI features for its entire range of devices.

Apple, which had fallen behind as competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon rolled out AI innovations, is now investing heavily in generative AI. CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple has been working on generative AI for years, and the company is reportedly spending about $1 billion annually on this effort.

Plans to integrate AI are underway across apps and platforms like Siri, iOS, and development tools like Xcode. The company is considering a combined approach for deploying generative AI, balancing on-device processing for speed and privacy with cloud capabilities for advanced tasks.

Given Apple’s desire to build everything as a vertically-integrated solution, will their approach win?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

What Is Apple Doing in AI? Revamping Siri, Search, Apple Music and other Apps - (Bloomberg)

Nvidia and iPhone maker Foxconn to build 'AI factories' (BBC News)

AI bias tests gloss over a crucial aspect of skin color, Sony research claims (The Verge)

YouTube Working on AI Tool That Lets Creators Sing Using Musicians' Voices - (Bloomberg)

Live From the Uncanny Valley: How AI Tools Are Turning Words Into Music (Pitchfork)

UK’s Sunak Pushes Nations to Label AI as Capable of ‘Catastrophic Harm’ (Yahoo News)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Product-led SEO and why it matters in the age of AI (indiehackers.com)

We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak (unixsheikh.com)

What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (substack.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert: 🚀🧠💬 Supercharged Custom Instructions for ChatGPT (non-coding) and ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis (coding). (Github)

eric-ai-lab/MiniGPT-5: Official implementation of paper "MiniGPT-5: Interleaved Vision-and-Language Generation via Generative Vokens" (Github)

optimizers/distributed_shampoo at main · facebookresearch/optimizers - Distributed Shampoo is a preconditioned stochastic gradient optimizer in the adaptive gradient (Adagrad) family of methods (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Query and Response Augmentation Cannot Help Out-of-domain Math Reasoning Generalization (arxiv)

Unsupervised human-to-robot motion retargeting via expressive latent space (arxiv)

MAGVIT - Masked Generative Video Transformer (cmu.edu)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Amazon Tells Managers They Can Now Fire Employees Who Won't Come Into the Office 3 Times a Week (businessinsider.com)

DARPA asks a $170 billion question about profiting on the Moon (qz.com)

Roblox mandates return-to-office, saying virtual workplaces fall short (qz.com)

How Long You’re Contagious With Covid, Flu, R.S.V. and More (The New York Times)

Ozempic Weight Loss Just One of Many Uses for Novo Nordisk Drug - Bloomberg

A surge in wealth has boosted most US households since 2020 and helped sustain economic growth (AP News)

One Last Bite 😋

How well can large language models forget? Researchers test it with Harry Potter!