Apple to hold first in-person summit in years, focused on AI

As Apple begins to ease its COVID policies, the company has decided to hold its annual internal AI summit in person, which could mean the company may soon return to traditional media events.

The AI summit is similar to Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, except it caters only to Apple employees. Topics this year are expected to focus on ChatGPT and OpenAI.

While the event will be held in-person, it will still be streamed for employees who are unable to attend.

The news was shared on Twitter by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Interestingly, the event will be held in the Steve Jobs Theater at the Apple HQ and the in-person event will be streamed to employees as well. So, essentially how Apple held media events pre-Covid. Have to wonder if Apple will also return to that for public product launches. https://t.co/uhLv4se9oW
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) February 6, 2023

While it's impossible to tell just yet, Apple could return to the live format for its other events, such as iPhone launch events and WWDC.

It was recently learned that Apple changed its corporate worker COVID-19 policy and will no longer require employees to get tested before entering the office.

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ravnorodom 721 comments · 8 Years

About 1 year ago

That ChatGPT thingie creates some serious ripple effects.

mikethemartian 1493 comments · 18 Years

Will any AIs be allowed to attend or just people?

OnPartyBusiness 93 comments · 5 Years

ravnorodom said:

That ChatGPT thingie creates some serious ripple effects.

I hope one of these ripple effects will be that Apple gets the impetus to seriously improve Siri. My latest aggravation is that although I have been able to say “speak screen” , and Siri would do it suddenly one day it stopped doing it. I had several conversations with Apple support and we could not get it to speak screen again. “ sorry, there’s nothing to read here.”. Also, recently, when I ask Siri to read my calendar for tomorrow it will just tell me how many events I have for tomorrow, and will not read out what they are like it was doing. The sudden disruptions in service are very annoying especially when you end up spending days on different forums trying to find out if Apple has merely taken away a function, as they did, when Siri used to be able to search your photos for objects, dates, etc. or if it is a problem with your device.

kestral 306 comments · 23 Years

What is Apple doing about ChatGPT / Bard and the AI wars? This is huge. Apple hired an AI guy, time for him to earn his pay.

Marvin 15355 comments · 18 Years

kestral said:

What is Apple doing about ChatGPT / Bard and the AI wars? This is huge. Apple hired an AI guy, time for him to earn his pay.

The top AI guy that Apple hired left due to Apple's remote work policy and went to work for Google DeepMind last year:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/05/07/apples-director-of-machine-learning-exits-over-return-to-office-policy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-goodfellow-b7187213

He was at Apple for over 3 years. Still, a lot of this stuff is open source now.

This could be Apple's entrance into online search that was rumored a while ago. It could behave much like Siri with conversational search but obviously more advanced and a bit more accurate due to typing instead of speaking.