Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training AI
by Monica Chin from The Verge - All Posts on (#6EH1M)
Image: CFOTO / Future Publishing via Getty Images Apple is investing millions of dollars per day into artificial intelligence, according to a new report from The Information. The company is reportedly working on multiple AI models across several teams.
Apple's unit that works on conversational AI is called Foundational Models," per The Information's reporting. It has around 16" members, including several former Google engineers. It's helmed by John Giannandrea, Apple's head of AI, who was hired in 2018 to help improve Siri. (Giannandrea has reportedly expressed skepticism to colleagues about the potential usefulness of chatbots powered by AI language models.")
Additional teams at Apple are also working on artificial intelligence, per The Information. A Visual Intelligence unit is...