Apple’s iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Sam Altman, Jony Ive to Work on AI Devices
Apple’s iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Sam Altman, Jony Ive to Work on AI Devices
Microsoft releases its Copilot chatbot as a smartphone app
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Apple’s iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Jony Ive, Sam Altman to Work on AI Devices
Legendary designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are enlisting an Apple Inc. veteran to work on a new artificial intelligence hardware project, aiming to create devices with the latest AI capabilities.
As part of the effort, outgoing Apple executive Tang Tan will join Ive’s design firm LoveFrom, which will shape the look and capabilities of the new products, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman, an executive who has become the face of modern AI, plans to provide the software underpinnings, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the endeavor isn’t public.
The work marks one of the most ambitious efforts undertaken by Ive since he left Apple in 2019 to create LoveFrom. The iconic designer is famous for the products he helped devise under Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, including the iMac, iPhone and iPad. His hope is to turn the AI device work into a new company, but development of the products remains at an early stage, according to the people. The efforts so far are focused on hiring talent and creating concepts.
Tan will lead hardware engineering at the project while working at LoveFrom, the people said… Projects in the concept stage include devices for the home….
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Microsoft releases its Copilot chatbot as a smartphone app
Without any official announcement, Microsoft uploaded a Copilot app to the Android store just before Christmas. The app offers the same functionality as the Bing web app: you can ask the chatbot questions or give it instructions and receive the corresponding text or image in return.
It is also possible to upload images or take pictures with the camera and chat about the image content. Unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Bing chatbot provides sources for most answers by default - or at least tries to.
According to the chatbot, you can have up to six messages in 60 chats with a Microsoft login. Within a chat, the message limit is 30 messages, after which older messages are deleted. Microsoft's chatbot cites a "technical limitation that will hopefully be resolved soon." You can also use the chatbot without a Microsoft login, but text generation will be limited to a few messages.
The most interesting thing about the smartphone app is that Microsoft explicitly offers a switch to use GPT-4. Apparently GPT-4 is now so well known as a brand that Microsoft sees it as a unique selling point.
The Microsoft Copilot app is available for Android here. An iOS version is not yet available, but the iOS Bing Chat app offers the same features. Copilot can be used on the web at copilot.microsoft.com.
by Matthias Bastian of The Decoder
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