Apple is set to integrate artificial intelligence into its new phones, but billionaire Elon Musk has threatened to ban the devices from his companies over what he claims are security fears.
The tech giant held its annual developers conference in California on Monday, during which it made the long-awaited announcement that it would bring AI to its devices.
Nicknamed Apple Intelligence is a collection of features that includes text and image generation and an improved Siri voice assistant.
This will be supported by the integration of the already popular ChatGPT on the company’s phones.
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Musk has a contentious relationship with OpenAI: he was one of the company’s founders, but has since turned against it and accused it of not following its founding principles.
Apple’s new artificial intelligence system would revamp Siri, allowing it to extract information from a user’s apps.
But South African billionaire Musk said the decision was an “unacceptable security breach” and claimed that if OpenAI is integrated at the operating system level “then Apple devices will be banned from my companies.”
He accused, without evidence, the Silicon Valley company of providing user data to OpenAI.
Apple’s WWDC developer conference was held this week at Apple Park headquarters. Photo: AP
But in its announcement, Apple said the new AI system would be privacy-based and carry out most processes on the device itself.
Any computing done externally, Apple said, would be done through a new procedure called private cloud computing, which it said would keep user data secure.
They added that users would have to give permission before sharing any requests with OpenAI.
The dispute reflects divergent views on AI and the speed with which the technology is being developed and deployed.
When OpenAI announced ChatGPT in November 2022, it kicked off the tech industry’s AI arms race.
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Since then, some of the world’s largest companies, such as Microsoft and Google, have moved ahead of Apple with their own use of AI.
But with this week’s announcement, Apple has jumped into the race.
It came after the company experienced a slowdown in global sales in recent years and recently Overtaken as the second most valuable company in the world. from Nvidia, a maker of AI microchips.
The deal will also put ChatGPT, the high-profile AI startup, directly on the phones of potentially millions of users and put Apple alongside other tech companies in betting that AI is the future of its industry.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said AI features would be “indispensable” in the company’s products in the coming years.
But in May last year, the Washington Post reported that Cook was less enthusiastic about AI, saying that generative AI still had “a number of problems that need to be resolved.”
After Monday’s conference, Apple executives said the company was open to striking more deals with other AI chatbots to give users more options for generative tools.
It has often been pointed out that popularly used AI models have flaws, including the creation of information.
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