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🍏 Apple’s AI breakthrough

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are the kings of AI right now. These models are super useful for a gazillion different tasks, but there’s a catch - they require a lot of computing power and memory.

According to a new research paper, Apple’s scientists have come up with a smart solution to make LLMs work efficiently on smaller devices with less memory (hint: phones).

The results? They can run models up to twice the size of the available memory capacity. And it's way faster – we're talking 4-5 times faster on CPUs and 20-25 times faster on GPUs compared to basic loading methods. The answers will be instant.

You can already run a chatbot right on your phone. Just last week, Microsoft rolled out Phi 2, a tiny chatbot with 2.7 billion parameters, designed for this. The benefits are clear: it’s fast, needs no internet and your data stays private. And with Apple's latest invention, phones will be able to handle models that are twice as big and powerful.

Soon AI will power everything

As the technology gets cheaper and more efficient, AI will integrate into everything. In just a year since ChatGPT 3.5 launched and sparked the AI revolution, the cost of operating a model with similar capabilities got 100x cheaper. With this rate of progress soon even small electronics and home devices like our fridge, treadmill or microwave oven might have an AI system running on it, so it can diagnose its problems and think for itself.

Imagine your fridge keeping track of the best before dates of all items in it. Your oven monitoring the cake based on the recipe and turning the heat down if it thinks it’ll burn it. They’ll even have a personality you can set.

Not to mention phones. Soon, they'll carry a vast knowledge of the world, accessible anywhere, even without internet or reception. Up until now, if you got lost in a remote place like the Rocky Mountains with no coverage, your phone was pretty much just a flashlight. But soon, it'll be a survival guide. It'll recognize edible plants through the camera, describe the area, keep you company, monitor your mental state, and even give you a pep talk if you need one.

Your smartphone will become a pocket-sized source of world knowledge, knowing you better than anyone else. It'll be like your all-knowing sidekick. This will revolutionize how we tackle problems, turning us into capable problem solvers, even in areas we're not familiar with, be it bushcrafting, coding, or car mechanics.

The next few years of the smartphone industry will be just as exciting as the early years following the introduction of the iPhone.

ONE MORE THING

Mercedes will have a light on their car to show other drivers the car is self-driving.

Not everyone in the comments is on board with the idea, mainly because blue lights are usually for police cars, but I think it's a good idea to have a way to tell if the car in front or behind is driving itself.

⌚ If You Have One More Minute

• 🏠 Airbnb using AI to help clampdown on New Year’s Eve parties globally

• 🔍 An AI video search tool that searches in parts of video.

• ⚖️ AI cannot be patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case

AI Art of the Day 🎨

DomoAI just dropped their video-to-video feature this week, and it's been a huge hit. They've already got 10,000 new users in just a week because of it.

@iamfakhrealam tested it on a clip from 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'

The results are incredible: super clean and stable!

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That's all for today, folks!

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