Welcome to this week’s newsletter!
This is CowGL AI Labs, and this week is all about our actions on AI and actions for AI, as well as all sorts of craziness like marketting strategies & ethical AI development by Jered and new products announced by Charlie.
This week, our Lead AI Engineer and Lead AI Executive Charlie from CowGL AI Labs did some research and announced a few updates about the latest open-sourced products.
Meanwhile, Just Apple (aka. “ja”) has been a dedicated iOS18 Beta tester since the Apple WWDC24; Jered C (aka. “jc”) just released a merged ScreenAI Dataset Family from Google’s research paper “ScreenAI” which is now available for use, and a trained LLaMA-3 Tokenizer specialized in Traditional Chinese (zh-TW).
There are also many interesting project updates and latest news we couldn’t fit in this column, so let’s dive in.
Charlie, our Lead AI Engineer & Executive just released a new project that focusses on utilizing terminal UIs to build an interactive Generative AI experience for developers who has the need of proompting AI directly from the terminal. No extra configurations are needed and the installation is completely hassle-free. You can also export chats to share with anyone without the need of manually copying.
Charlie also mentioned that only the five latest chat messages are sent to the API in the README, which is a unique approach to privacy and security compared to other existing projects.
To learn more, check out ‣.
Everything nowdays is all about “you.” You are the central of every kind of software, it’s about “your” interface, “your” experience, “your” preferences, and your “data.”
The Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) just started a few days ago, and they released a new product – Apple Intelligence. They claimed that the model will be aware of your personal context including (but not limited to) emails, notes, messages, files, photos and more. On top of that, Apple stated that the model will run locally on your device so that your data is never shared with anyone else. They also alleged that when your device cannot handle requests at the time, they’ll run the model on your “personal” cloud. What’s more, they even give out your data to third-party softwares like ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI (who recently announced their partnership with Apple).
To me, this feels is a major privacy concern since we, the users, have no clue on know how the data will be processed in detail. In fact, we can’t even make sure of OpenAI not using your conversation history to train their models. Therefore, Apple’s claims using the word “personal” is quite possibly just a marketting strategy and a low-budget excuse.
Apple Intelligence is rolling out in beta this fall to developers and is limited to devices that support the latest technologies (e.g., M3 and A17 biotic chips) including an iPhone 15 Pro.
Learn more about Apple Intelligence as well as other new technologies in the Keynote:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/101/
