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The cofounder of Google's AI division DeepMind says everybody will have their own AI-powered 'chief of staff' over the next five years::Mustafa Suleyman said AI will "intimately know your personal information" and be able to serve you 24-7.

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[–] Elohim@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The big thing that’s holding Apple back regarding Siri is that they aim to have all their AI-driven functions processed on the user’s hardware, for security/privacy. So they not only need the software component, they want to have the hardware capable of running it inside the individual phones.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

eh... sounds like privacy theater to me. Only the audio transcription may be processed on the device.

In all cases, transcripts of your interactions will be sent to Apple to process your requests

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They might aim to have a full blown LLM on the device, but it'll never be as good as the others with these limitations.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Many teams are currently working on striking the right balance of fine tuning and model size. Most aren't considering phones yet, but PCs off network.

It is entirely possible to have an LLM run "closed loop", but obviously Google and Apple want in that loop