Apple Experimenting With ‘Apple GPT’ AI Tool
July 19th, 2023One of my children figured out a few cunning tricks to work around his time limits on his PC running Windows 10. I saw what he was doing and thought that I could solve it with some automation. In short, I needed a script to log just him out on workstation lock; completely terminate the session instead of the usual disconnect. I have other processes running on the system, which need to be left alone.
I prompted the free tier of ChatGPT to create this script for me and, yes, it knew how to do this and gave me usable code. The batch file looks up the session ID assigned to my son and issues logoff to that ID. I set it up in the task scheduler to trigger on workstation lock and it worked.
“Daddy used AI to fix my exploit. Unfair.”
It seems like a trivial thing, but it’s really not. You can read all of the AI unemployment doom articles you want, but it’s a different feeling altogether when that thing spits out working code for you…
For young people now, it’s probably best to advise them that jobs involving someone paying them to look at a computer screen are going to become increasingly rare as time goes on. (That’s a mild way of explaining it to a child. Just between you and me: Forget it. It’s over.) On the bright side, perhaps get them to think about self employment and how they can use AI tools to give them some advantage to doing tasks in the real world, which are not easily automated away.
Via: MacRumors:
Apple is working on “Apple GPT” artificial intelligence projects that could rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Work on AI has become a priority for Apple over the course of the last few months, as chatbot services and AI functions in apps have proliferated.
The Cupertino company has developed an “Ajax” framework for large language models like ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing, and Google’s Bard, and it has developed its own internal chatbot that some engineers refer to as “Apple GPT,” a play on ChatGPT. Apple does not yet have a “clear strategy” for creating a product for consumers, says Gurman.
Given the popularity of AI chatbots, Apple is worried that it is lagging behind on new AI-based technologies that will change the way that people interact with smartphones. Apple employees must get special access to access the chatbot app that Apple is working on, and its output cannot be used to develop new product features for customers. It is being used for product prototyping and can answer questions based on the data that Apple used to train it.
