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Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

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Re: Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

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Post by cyrusradfar »

causalmodels wrote: post #30
tartoran wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of tech does qAi bring to the table?

" As first reported by Reuters, Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments."

[puts on tin foil]

you mean something that improves the detection and transcription of voices when the person doesn't realize the mic is on, like when it's in our pocket?

Re: Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

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Post by Noaidi »

causalmodels wrote: post #30
tartoran wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of tech does qAi bring to the table?

" As first reported by Reuters, Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments."

Yeah, so, I am never turning on Apple Intelligence...

Re: Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

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Post by danhite »

concavebinator wrote: post #28

In case there are any Ender's Game fans here, the capability to understand micro-expressions reminds me of how Ender subvocalizes to Jane. Orson Scott Card predicted yet another technological norm.

Also earlier credit due to Isaac Asimov in Second Foundation [1953] "...

The same basic developments of mental science that had brought about the development of the Seldon Plan, thus made it also unnecessary for the First Speaker to use words in addressing the Student.

Every reaction to a stimulus, however slight, was completely indicative of all the trifling changes, of all the flickering currents that went on in another's mind. The First Speaker could not sense the emotional content of the Student's instinctively, as the Mule would have been able to do – since the Mule was a mutant with powers not ever likely to become completely comprehensible to any ordinary man, even a Second Foundationer – rather he deduced them, as the result of intensive training.

Re: Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

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Post by mNovak »

causalmodels wrote: post #30
tartoran wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of tech does qAi bring to the table?

" As first reported by Reuters, Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments."

Maybe to allow sub-vocalized commands when wearing airpods, for example? I think this was a theme in the later Ender's Game series books.

Re: Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

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Post by tanseydavid »

Noaidi wrote: post #33
causalmodels wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" As first reported by Reuters, Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments."

Yeah, so, I am never turning on Apple Intelligence...

Hope they do not adopt the MS approach to updates with the "shaken" Etch-a-Sketch for your settings on every update.
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