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Posts Tagged → machine learning

When the Machines Remember

posted in AI, chatgpt, machine learning, privacy on April 23, 2025

Early in my experience with ChatGPT’s voice feature, my daughter walked into the room and I told it to say hello to her. It did, cheerfully, and it totally creeped her out. I turned the voice off. A week later, I fired ChatGPT back…

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Perplexity Moves into Mobile

posted in AI, gemini, machine learning, siri on April 22, 2025

News broke this week that Perplexity AI is in talks to integrate its assistant directly into Samsung and Motorola phones. What’s especially interesting here is how this upends the usual Android assistant narrative. Google has been baking Gemini into Android with increasing urgency, and…

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Perplexity Pages

posted in AI, artificial intelligence, LLM, machine learning on June 17, 2024

My experiments with Perplexity continue. This alternate search app takes a different approach to getting answers from the Internet. Rather than giving you a list of links to read, it reads the Internet and tries to give you an answer with footnotes going back…

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Hope Springs Eternal for Apple Intelligence

posted in AI, Apple Intelligence, LLM, machine learning, privacy, siri on June 12, 2024

Yesterday, Apple announced its new name for artificial intelligence tools on its platform: Apple Intelligence. If you watched the keynote carefully, it was almost humorous how they danced around the term “artificial intelligence” throughout. At the beginning, Tim made reference to “intelligence” without the…

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Apple Licensing Data for its AI Training

posted in AI, artificial intelligence, machine learning on December 28, 2023

The New York Times reports Apple is in negotiations to license published materials for training their generative AI model. This shouldn’t be a surprise. A few years ago, when image processing was the big thing, everyone thought Apple would fall behind because they weren’t collecting all…

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