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Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Post by gremlinsinc »

agentcoops wrote: post #276
hosh wrote: post #246

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Apple doesn’t have to win developer trust or build an AI platform. They just have to build a compelling consumer product that can only function with AI, and they are better equipped to do that than Google or Microsoft. It remains to be seen if OpenAI will go that route instead of a business built on training and providing access to foundational models.

Yes, this is the most important point and I think somehow least present in even discussions here: the technical question of who produces the best/cheapest LLM/future architecture is considerably less important than who, if anyone, creates a fundamentally new and dominant consumer experience built on AI. Most of the existing players (Google, Meta) would of course prefer that nobody produces such a newly dominant parad…

I think Microsoft is going to eat openai, I mean the company is practically half in and out of Microsoft's mouth. Bing will likely add more and more features that are native to chatGPT, Google I think will eventually get in the game, Facebook is actually doing better than Google, especially for open source models which is buoying the smaller researchers and developers.

In the end one company will build AGI or super AGI that can do the function of any existing software even games, with any interface even VR, or no interface at all - just return deliverables like a tax return. The evolution might be, give me an easier but similar QuickBooks UI for accounting to just do my taxes, the company who gets here first could essentially put all other software companies out of business, especially SaaS businesses.

The first company to get there will basically be a corporate singularity and no other company will be able to catch up to them.

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Post by bbor »

dilippkumar wrote: post #277
bbor wrote: post #52

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Ok our options Multimodal large language model Large multimodal language model Large language multimodal model Large language model (multimodal) I prefer 1, because this is a multimodal type of an existing technique already referred to as LLM. If I was king, I’d do Omnimodal Linguistic Minds, but no one asks me such things, thank god

Some of the modalities in multimodal are non-linguistic. For example, image or video input. In those cases, is it still a language model?

I’d say yeah cause it’s understanding the inputs through linguistic structures/patterns

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Post by barfingclouds »

antiframe wrote: post #159
darthrupert wrote: post #146

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My expectation of Apple is that they lurk in the shadows, looking at what others do while perfecting their own thing. Then on the day of release, they'll be a decade ahead of competition. They've done this a dozen times already.

Which dozen times has Apple released something decades ahead of the competition? I'm blanking on 4-12.

iPhone, Siri

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Post by ignoramous »

yreg wrote: post #290
ignoramous wrote: post #217

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> marketing team chose to keep it for future iOS/MBP/iPhone generations to keep the profits high. VisionPro is nice. I can see costs coming down over a period of time. Also, we've been waiting long enough for that AI car.

Apple has never promised any car. From what is known, project Titan has been cancelled years ago. The only exeption of not delivering I can recall was AirPower. It's a product they've announced and then embarassingly weren't able to finish up to their standards (or up to what was promised), so they have cancelled it altogether.

My point was, it isn't the marketing team why Apple tanks innovative/disruptive/new products.

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Post by shrimpx »

cezart wrote: post #289
shrimpx wrote: post #236

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That's true, I have found that mildly annoying sometimes. But most of the time it's a win. It was really annoying manually switching modes over and over when typing in mixed-language, which I do fairly often. It'd be great if there was a setting though.

I had the opposite problem, the languages I usually typed in(Romanian + English) didn't have a multi language mode on iOS. So it was a constant pain to switch btw them when I needed to insert some English terms in Romanian sentences. IOS didn't support multi language for this language pair. On Android it always worked like a charm.

Hey I'm Romanian, too. The latest iOS does what you want -- it has multi-language support and typing mixed English + Romanian is seamless now. Yeah it was a total pain to keep switching languages before iOS 17.

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Post by Kerb_ »

illiac786 wrote: post #300
superb_dev wrote: post #283

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In this context “literally” is being used to draw attention to the perceived obviousness of the information. Essentially saying “how could you not see this?”

In this context, "what's the literally here?" means that the author think the post would be better without it: it's too agressive, sarcastic, demeaning, etc. for example. Hence it's a false question. It's actually funny because you answered a false question (potentially on purpose). Like: "What the hell are you doing?!?" "Well Im stealing your car, obviously."

In this context, the verbose explanation to a rhetorical question seems to be the point of the comment, to reemphasize said aggression or sarcasm. It's actually funny because we both are doing the same thing, also potentially on purpose.

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Post by Baldbvrhunter »

astrange wrote: post #238
Baldbvrhunter wrote: post #234

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yet in 15+ years I have never used any of mine for that

Good for you. It's the only thing phones are required to be able to do in the US even if they don't have a working SIM or you haven't paid the phone bill. Well, I guess they're also not allowed to cause RF interference or randomly catch fire.

sure, but that doesn't make it their #1 job

my pyjamas are regulated to be fireproof too

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Post by fennecbutt »

shrimpx wrote: post #216

Apple has been looking sleepy on LLMs, but they've been consistently evolving their hardware+software AI stack, without much glitzy advertising. I think they could blow away Microsoft/OpenAI and Google, if suddenly a new iOS release makes the OpenAI/Bard chatbox look laughably antiquated. They're also a threat to Nvidia, if a significant swath of AI usage switches over to Apple hardware. Arm and TSMC would stand to w…

Are you so sure? Even this link is built on top of the work of others, I'm not sure they've contributed as much as you think they have.
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