“AiPhone” by Zvi

Apple was for a while rumored to be planning launch for iPhone of AI assisted emails, texts, summaries and so on including via Siri, to be announced at WWDC 24.

It's happening. Apple's keynote announced the anticipated partnership with OpenAI.

The bottom line is that this is Siri as the AI assistant with full access to everything on your phone, with relatively strong privacy protections. Mostly it is done on device, the rest via ‘private cloud compute.’ The catch is that when they need the best they call out for OpenAI, but they do check with you first explicitly each time, OpenAI promises not to retain data and they hide your queries, unless you choose to link up your account.

If the new AI is good enough and safe enough then this is pretty great. If Google doesn’t get its act together reasonably soon to deliver [...]

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Outline:

(01:30) AiPhone

(04:00) Privacy

(05:27) Practical Magic

(07:38) Dance With the Devil

(08:30) Does It Work?

(10:54) Do You Dare?

(11:59) Who Pays Who?

(13:37) AiPhone Fans

(19:36) No AiPhone

(23:54) In Other Apple News

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First published:
June 12th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GrsYwCpRCcYtDCfZN/aiphone

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