Apple Builds AppleGPT But Doesn't Know What To Do With It

Plus, what Gen Z thinks of generative AI

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Nathaniel Whittemore
July 20, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Thursday July 20, 2023

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Judge Sees Issues with Artists Lawsuit Against AI

  • 4. K-Pop Label Using AI for Translation

  • 3. Google’s New AI Journalism Tool

  • 2. What Gen Z Thinks of Gen AI

  • 1. Apple Working on ‘AppleGPT’

5. Judge Sees Issues with Artists Lawsuit Against AI

A San Francisco judge has said that he’s inclined to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of artists against generative AI platforms including Stability AI and Midjourney. The judge said that they should be able to provide better arguments than they have so far given that they have access to the source code.

US judge finds flaws in artists' lawsuit against AI companies

U.S. District Judge William Orrick said during a hearing in San Francisco on Wednesday that he was inclined to dismiss most of a lawsuit brought by a group of artists against generative artificial intelligence companies, though he would allow them to file a new complaint.

www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-judge-finds-flaws-artists-lawsuit-against-ai-companies-2023-07-19

4. K-Pop Label Using AI for Translation

What’s better than a global megastar? A global megastar singing in multiple languages. South Korea’s biggest record label HYBE has been experimenting with using AI to release their artists tracks in multiple languages at the same time. The process involves breaking down words and language into constituent parts and then recombining native speaker pronunciation with a singer’s natural voice.

3. Google’s New AI Journalism Tool

Google has demoed a tool they’re calling Genesis that takes the key information of a given news story and turns it into an article. Genesis has reportedly been shown to executives at the NYTimes, WSJ, and Washington Post. Google pitched the tool as an assistant to journalists, but some of the people who saw it found it “unsettling.”

2. What Gen Z Thinks of Gen AI

A new research report suggests that Gen Z and Millennials have a pretty strong sense of AI’s inevitability. 41% of those surveyed at least ‘somewhat agree’ that within 20 years, most entertainment including books, music, movies and art will be made by AI.

1. Apple Working on ‘AppleGPT’

Today’s “not-shocking-but-still-massive” lead story is a Bloomberg report that Apple has built an AI framework for LLMs it calls Ajax, as well as a chatbot service that engineers internally have been calling “Apple GPT.” Even though the report suggests that Apple doesn’t know what they want to do with the tech yet, just the hint of it was enough to send Apple stock to all time highs.

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