Apple joins AI competition with 'Apple GPT'

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Apple joins AI competition with ‘Apple GPT’

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📸 Business Spotlight: New AI program could help doctors design drugs and proteins

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Apple joins AI competition with ‘Apple GPT’

Apple is finally jumping into the AI arena with a conversational AI chatbot called Apple GPT. The tool will compete with leading chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard.

The company has developed an internal framework for AI called Ajax. Apple’s new large language model is already being used by employees internally.

Although Apple is late to the LLM trend, the company has the software and hardware to be a strong competitor to existing chatbots.

Apple is considering using Apple GPT to help with customer support by giving the tool to its AppleCare support staff. The company isn’t sure what it wants to do with the chatbot on the customer-facing side yet, but is aiming to launch a consumer project next year.

Apple GPT could have significant implications for other Apple products like Siri speech recognition and the Photo app’s face and pet detection.

Check out these two articles published by CNBC and The Verge to learn more.

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📸 Business Spotlight: New AI program could help doctors design drugs and proteins

A team of U.S. researchers has created an AI program capable of designing custom-tailored proteins. This may speed up the process of designing everything from drugs to fight cancer and infectious diseases to novel proteins that extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The program, called RFdisffusion, analyzes a 3D model of a target protein and then designs novel proteins to bind to the target. It starts with random guesses as to the protein’s structure before tweaking calculated architecture to bind more tightly to the target.

The researchers say that RFdiffusion improved the success rate of finding tight binders up to 100-fold compared to other non-AI protein design programs.

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