Postcards from the Exponential Age: Day 1
Hi there,
As promised on Friday, this week we’re sending you short postcards from the Exponential Age — written by my Exponentialist co-creator David Mattin on the emerging technologies that are reshaping our world.
At the end of each post, there’s a daily poll question to help us better understand how you’re thinking about the Exponential Age and tech investing.
Take it away, David…
Ready to be friends with Apple’s new AI companion?
Ahead of Apple’s WWDC event in June, a new research paper offers an early glimpse of what the company is cooking in its AI lab.
The paper introduces ReALM (Reference Resolution As Language Modeling): a multi-modal AI model that can understand both natural language conversation and on-screen content.
Why does this have tech watchers talking?
When it comes to this generative AI moment, we’ve all been waiting patiently for Apple to make its move. It’s widely expected the company will make a series of AI announcements at the upcoming WWDC.
Now, with ReALM, it looks as though the pieces of the puzzle are coming together. ReALM’s ability to understand both user conversation and on-screen content means it can underpin a major upgrade of Siri, Apple’s on-device AI assistant.
This isn’t just about a better AI assistant. It’s about the AI conversational companion of our dreams: a guide, counsellor, and AI friend that knows us better than anyone and is there to talk 24/7. The Exponentialist will be watching WWDC closely.
Startups are also racing to create this kind of all-purpose virtual companion. But Apple can roll one out to over 1 billion iPhone users. The race is theirs to lose...
Now to the poll…
Will you ever be friends with an AI companion?
Maybe not my own AI Companion but imaging you loose your spouse and you continue to talk to her/his AI Companion LOML