Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, has said it will spend $1 billion a year to try and catch up on the generative AI boom. It says it wants to use AI to improve several of its services, such as Siri, Messages, and Apple Music. Other rival companies to Apple such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have already unveiled new/different AI products and features, and Apple is trying to catch up. Generative AI is a certain type of AI that creates things like text, pictures, and videos. Chat GPT, the increasingly popular text generator, is a type of generative AI.
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- What is a simple definition of generative AI?
- How much money does Apple want to spend per year to catch up?
- What are 2 out of 3 example services that Apple wants to improve using this generative AI?
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/23/apple-to-spend-1-billion-a-year-in-ai-catch-up-efforts-report-.html
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Answer Key:
- Generative AI is a certain type of AI that creates things like text, pictures, and videos.
- $1 billion dollars
- Siri, Messages, Apple Music.
