Apple reveals ReALM — new AI model could make Siri way faster and smarter

Apple has unveiled a new small language model called ReALM (Reference Resolution As Language Modeling) that is designed to run on a phone and make voice assistants like Siri smarter by helping it to understand context and ambiguous references. Details were released in a new open research paper from Apple published on Friday. The company claims it even outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4 on certain tasks.

ReALM is a visual model that reconstructs the screen and labels each on-screen entity and its location. This creates a text-based representation of the visual layout which can be passed on to the voice assistant to provide it context clues for user requests.

If ReALM is deployed to Siri, it will have a better understanding of what user means when they tell it to open this app, or can you tell me what this word means in an image. It would also give Siri more conversational abilities without having to fully deploy a large language model on the scale of Gemini.

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X's Community Notes: Musk's Anti-Disinformation Tool Arrives in India

Elon Musk's fact-checking platform, 'Community Notes', has become available in India—a welcome relief for the country battling against disinformation and fake news due to unathorised sharing.

It enables users to provide context for posts on the social media platform and is an effort to stop the spread of misleading information. Since its first release in the US, the feature has been made available in 69 more countries.

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Greetings, everyone!

We are organizing a panel discussion related to BharOS with Mr. Karthik Ayyar. It'll be hosted by Tech Karan, Miguel, and Isaiah. Our panelists, Techyminati, Gian, Pranav Talmale, Coderastic, and Adeveloper79, will discuss about the technical merits of BharOS and its indigenous nature. Below are the event details:

Date: 6th April, 2024

Time:
• 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT +5:30
• 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM GMT.

The event will be simultaneously livestreamed on various Telegram channels like Xiaomeme, my channel (Agam's Tech Tricks), Droid Den, RVX lite, while also being livestreamed on YouTube (courtesy of Tech Karan).

Have any questions? Send them over to @bharos_panelbot! Our questionnaire @not_ayan99 will be asking them directly to Mr Karthik.

Note: If you send a question and you edited it, the edit won't be visible. Please send a new message instead.

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The recording of the BharOS discussion, there ya go!

(The video is not that good, but audio quality is good enough. Not like anyone opened cameras, so that's not an issue)

Share this and spread this to everyone!

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This is why you don't watch 3 Idiots too many times!

1:05, the ball pen, LMAO.

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Meet BharOS: The OpenWRT destroyer!

Apparently, as BharOS is based on "linux", it can run on routers as well!

OpenWRT folks, better watch out! Mr. Ayyar is after you ;D

5:00

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Here's a few lessons in Androi- I mean, Linux distro development, by yours truly!

First thing, kids: Linux kernel is the first thing that"gets loaded". Nope, it ain't the bootloader or all that stuff, its the kernel ofcourse, duh! 1:40

Second: when you make a new pribate app store concept, you do NOT store the app packages! :D 3:25

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