📆 June 11th 2024📆 

Catch Day 1 of WWDC, are the announcements that big or just Apple playing catchup? Despite Apple taking over we have time for a sneak peak at some other news from Microsoft and new research.

• Get the top announcements from Apple’s WWDC 2024 conference

• Latest chat bots struggle with a controversial fact… who won the 2020 election?

• Researchers are using game theory to improve the accuracy and reliability of AI.

• Microsoft continue to face concerns over Recall feature and false claims of availability for some new Copilot features

• As always, too much to put in headlines. Check out the Other News Rollup section for a quickfire review of the top stories in AI.

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📰 News 📰 

Apple WWDC 2024 Keynote: Day 1 Updates

Apple's WWDC 2024 keynote unveiled major updates on Apple Intelligence, focusing on generative AI in iOS 18, macOS 15, and more. The event showcased advancements in spatial computing, privacy, and on-device AI processing, emphasizing Apple's commitment to user privacy and security. As I hear the critics saying Apple is late to the party I’m reminded of the powerhouse that is Apple’s ability to market their products. Many new technologies went to market long before Apple integrated them - are we looking at the same with AI?

Key announcements today:

Siri's ChatGPT Upgrade - Apple teams up with OpenAI to enhance Siri with ChatGPT for free, boosting AI capabilities and writing tools.

Emoji Creation - Apple debuts AI for custom emojis allowing users to create custom emoji called 'Genmoji' and fun images like 'smiley relaxing wearing cucumbers'.

MacOS AI Update - Apple reveals macOS Sequoia with AI, iPhone mirroring, and Passwords app updates at WWDC 2024.

iOS 18 AI Update - Apple's iOS 18 brings AI advancements, customization, and messaging upgrades with RCS support at WWDC 2024.

VisionOS2 - This update is bringing spatial photos to VisionOS, using machine learning to turn any picture in your library into a 3D photo. You can then share these spatial photos with others in a cool new live share mode.

WatchOS 11 - The new Vitals app provides insights into key health metrics like heart rate and blood oxygen levels. The update also introduces a training load feature to better manage workout intensity.

Keep up to date - Apple WWDC 2024

Game Theory Enhances AI Accuracy and Efficiency

MIT researchers have used game theory to improve large language models' accuracy and reliability. Their "consensus game" aligns generative and discriminative components, leading to more consistent and correct responses. This method has outperformed larger models by ensuring internal consistency and reducing answer variance. This approach has demonstrated significant improvements, with the consensus game enhancing the performance of smaller models to surpass that of much larger ones

Read More At: Wired

Google and Microsoft AI Chatbots Limit Election-Related Responses

Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot now restrict responses to election-related queries to prevent misinformation. Both chatbots direct users to traditional search engines for reliable information, ensuring the integrity of data during election cycles. These measures reflect the tech industry's commitment to ethical AI use in politically sensitive contexts, aiming to safeguard democratic processes by avoiding the dissemination of false or biased information

Read More At: Wired

🧠 Research 🧠 

Mixture-of-Agents Enhances Large Language Model Capabilities

This paper presents a Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) approach to enhance the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). The MoA methodology leverages multiple LLMs in a layered architecture where each agent uses outputs from previous layers to refine its response. This collaborative approach significantly improves performance on benchmarks like AlpacaEval 2.0, MT-Bench, and FLASK, surpassing even GPT-4 Omni. Key findings highlight the inherent collaborativeness among LLMs, where models generate better responses when given auxiliary outputs from other models. Future research should explore optimizing MoA architecture and reducing Time to First Token (TTFT).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04692

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🗞️ Other News Rollup 🗞️ 

AI Impact Unveiled - AI's transformative potential faces scepticism and mistrust, yet promises significant advancements and job disruptions.

AI Dependence Concerns - European banks fear reliance on US tech giants for AI resources, risking market competition and data privacy.

Nvidia's AI Doubts - Investors bet $34.4 billion against Nvidia's AI success, fearing a market cap decline and potential bubble burst.

Child Image AI Training - Brazilian children's images misused for AI training, sparking privacy and child protection concerns. LAION-5B dataset under scrutiny.

AI Job Interviews - AI cartoon characters conduct job interviews, raising concerns about biases and impacting candidates. Future may see AI-driven avatars.

Misleading Copilot Availability - Microsoft accused of misleading Copilot availability claims, warning users against using preview features in production.

Windows 11 Recall Update - Microsoft halts Recall feature update temporarily due to security concerns. Release Preview build paused.

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