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Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud::iPhone maker wants to catch up to its rivals when it comes to AI.

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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Remember, this probably isn’t an either or thing. Both Apple and Google have been offloading certain AI tasks to devices to speed up response time and process certain requests offline.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Yep, though Google is happy to process your data in the cloud constantly while Apple consistently tries to find ways to achieve it locally, which is generally better for privacy and security but also cheaper for them too.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Yea thats why they look trough your images for "cp"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Who looks at images?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ok have to correct myself, they crawled back from this 2 weeks ago due to backlash, but i doubt they wont do it at least in a similar way or hidden like they did with reducing power on older devices to "save battery" https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    All phones reduce power on older devices. Would you rather your phone be a little slower or just cut out at 15%? The problem with Apple is they weren’t upfront about it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Just because a certain requests don’t work offline, that doesn’t mean that Google isn’t actually running models locally for many requests.

    My pixel isn’t new enough to run nano. What are some examples of offline processing not working?

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the handshake between Pro and Nano was intermingled for certain requests. Some stuff done in the cloud, and some stuff done locally for speed - but if the internet is off, they kill the processing of the request entirely because half of the required platform isn’t available.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What a thought provoking reply.

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