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by danhau 354 days ago
This „4 year old technique“ apparently could give Apple an edge for on-device workloads.

> short: both Apple and OpenAI are moving beyond diffusion, but while OpenAI is building for its data centers, Apple is clearly building for our pockets.
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bitpush 354 days ago
The same edge Apple had summarizing notifications so poorly that they had to turn it off?

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-not...

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janalsncm 354 days ago
That was a bad and unnecessary feature but the privacy benefits of running a model on device rather than in the cloud are undeniable.
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bitpush 354 days ago
The fact that they shipped it shows they don't know what they were doing, private or not.
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janalsncm 354 days ago
That’s a little unfair imo. Statistical models make mistakes and have failure modes which are difficult to predict.

When the bug popped up, turning the feature off was easier than retraining and redeploying.

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