- During the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple said that it will be incorporating Apple Intelligence, a new artificial intelligence program, onto the Mac, iPad, and iPhone. It also revealed a collaboration with OpenAI, offering the possibility to incorporate ChatGPT powered by GPT-4o into some of its applications, such as the enhanced Siri. Later this year, ChatGPT integration will be free of charge for anyone without an account on iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.
- Elon Musk criticized the collaboration in a number of tweets on X, the previous Twitter platform. Musk stated that Apple devices would not be allowed at his firms if Apple incorporated OpenAI at the operating system level. Instead, guests would need to put their Apple devices in Faraday cages, which are containers that impede electromagnetic signals. Although Musk could guarantee that OpenAI would safeguard customers’ security and privacy, he said it was “patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI.
- “Protections are built in for users who access ChatGPT,” according to Apple, which also said that OpenAI wouldn’t keep requests and that device IP addresses would be kept confidential. Additionally, the release stated that users will be subject to ChatGPT’s data-use restrictions if they want to connect their accounts.
- Musk has long had a dislike for OpenAI, which he helped fund and cofound. The billionaire and CEO Sam Altman have a public falling out, and he has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that the company has abandoned its initial goals of being open-sourced and “developing AGI for the benefit of humanity.” Following his split from OpenAI, Musk founded xAI, a competing AI startup, and Grok, a ChatGPT competitor.
- Musk has also had disagreements with Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, in the past, but the two appeared to work things out when Cook asked Musk to visit Apple headquarters back in November 2022. Musk expressed his unhappiness on Monday in response to a tweet made by Cook that pushed Apple Intelligence.
Source:
Business Insider
