128 / Apple Intelligence
The new Siri, secured by blockchain

Apple's declining iPhone sales prompt a partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into devices, replacing Siri. Discussion covers potential privacy concerns, Apple's proposed secure private cloud compute nodes, and blockchain-like technology for transparency. The episode critically examines Apple's promises and the challenges of maintaining security against sophisticated attacks.

Timeline

00:00 Intro
02:59 Buzzwords are baggage
05:30 AI is off-device
11:00 AI and blockchain
11:53 How they do it
13:30 Enforcable security
14:51 tl;dr
20:13 No proof

Participants

fulldecent
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William Entriken

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Episode notes

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Great quotes from the blog post:

However, to process more sophisticated requests, Apple Intelligence needs to be able to enlist help from larger, more complex models in the cloud.

Publishing the measurements of all code running on PCC in an append-only and cryptographically tamper-proof transparency log