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Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

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Re: Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

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iPhone share is ~59% of smartphones in the US. Their customer base is effectively all demographics.

Those who dislike censorship and enjoy hacking avoid iPhones for obvious reasons.

How does an iPhone contribute to censorship?

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> For on-device inference, we use low-bit palletization, a critical optimization technique that achieves the necessary memory, power, and performance requirements. Did they go over the entire text with a thesaurus? I've never seen "palletization" be used as a viable synonym for "quantization" before, and I've read quite a few papers on LLM quantization

https://apple.github.io/coremltools/docs-guides/source/palet...

Huh, it’s PNG for AI weights.

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Halfway down the article contains some great charts with comparisons to other relevant models, like Mistral-7B for the on-device models, and both gpt-3.5 and 4 for the server-side models. They include data about the ratio of which outputs human graders preferred (for server side it’s better than 3.5, worse than 4). BUT, the interesting chart to me is „Human Evaluation of Output Harmfulness” which is much, much ”bette…

I want to know what they consider "harmful". Is it going to refuse to operate for sex workers, murder mystery writers, or people who use knives?

They'll inject whatever ideology / dogma is "the current thing" into this.

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it would have been nice if they allowed you to build your own apple AI system (i refused to redefine apples AI as just AI :-p ) using clusters of mac minis and mac pros. but of course they still want that data for themselves like google does. its secure against everyone but apple and the NSA probably lol.

What is stopping you from doing that? Nothing. Start cooking

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> We train our foundation models on licensed data, including data selected to enhance specific features, as well as publicly available data collected by our web-crawler, AppleBot. Web publishers have the option to opt out of the use of their web content for Apple Intelligence training with a data usage control. And, of course, nobody has known to opt-out by blocking AppleBot-Extended until after the announcement wher…

I hate to tell you, but I've been training a neural network on the internet for over a decade now. Specifically the one between my ears. Unfortunately, it seems to be gradually going insane.

you paid for that content either directly, or indirectly through ads.

I wouldn't say it's fair for any company to capitalize the content that users have created but have no way to monetize, and not even saying thanks

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"AI for the rest of us."

Except Apple isn't really for the rest of us. Outside of America and a handful wealthy western countries it's for the top 5-20% earners only.

Approximately 33% of all smartphones in the world are iPhones.

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> For on-device inference, we use low-bit palletization, a critical optimization technique that achieves the necessary memory, power, and performance requirements. Did they go over the entire text with a thesaurus? I've never seen "palletization" be used as a viable synonym for "quantization" before, and I've read quite a few papers on LLM quantization

I also found it confusing the first time I saw it. I believe it is sometimes used because the techniques for DL are very similar (in some cases identical) to algorithms that were developed for color palette quantization (in some places shortened to "palettization"). [1] At this point my understanding is that this term is used to be more specific about the type of quantization being performed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quantization

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> For on-device inference, we use low-bit palletization, a critical optimization technique that achieves the necessary memory, power, and performance requirements. Did they go over the entire text with a thesaurus? I've never seen "palletization" be used as a viable synonym for "quantization" before, and I've read quite a few papers on LLM quantization

https://apple.github.io/coremltools/docs-guides/source/palet...

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Re: Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"AI for the rest of us."

Except Apple isn't really for the rest of us. Outside of America and a handful wealthy western countries it's for the top 5-20% earners only.

In the EU the market share is 30%
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