#ArticleSummary: "Apple may hire Google to build Gemini AI engine into next-generation iPhone" by #CBSnews
Apple is exploring a potential deal with Google to integrate Google's Gemini AI engine into Apple's iPhones. The deal could help Apple receive or retain payment from Google and enhance its upcoming iOS 18. It is part of a race between Google and Microsoft for dominance over generative AI. Apple has also spoken to Microsoft's OpenAI about using its service. The potential deal could bolster iPhone sales and make the iPhone 16 a game-changing release. Google's Gemini AI chatbot faced controversy for generating inaccurate historical depictions.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-google-ai-gemini-iphone-openai

RT #www.smukher2.eu #www.smukher2.co.uk #www.smukher2.com #www.smukher2.net #www.smukher2.org #smukher2 To #Apple #TimCook #Google #SundarPichai #Everyone:I think this collaboration between #Apple, #TimCook, and #Google, #SundarPichai, is great for both. It's still in talks, so we'll see what finally happens. Its mutually beneficial, like a symbiosis should be, for Apple it will be learning from AI experts Google, and for Google it will be learning from Apple's AI tech. Google is usually hasty with deployment, especially for AI because they are an AI first company, so sometimes run into failures like Gemini AI version 1, while Apple is more careful with deployment because for Apple it is always quality over quantity, be it AI or a new device we never thought we would need (we thought we only needed the iPhone, but Apple showed us we needed the iPad too). It's De Javu, the collaboration method invented by Steve Jobs and perfected by Tim Cook. This concept of "meaningful partnership" was originally innovated at Apple by Steve Jobs in collaboration with Bill Gates and Microsoft, but it took Tim Cook's methodical, organized genius to perfect it. Ergo, Apple has never had the need to break anti-trust rules to acquire; first,  they try to do it themselves (self-made), and if they can't, they are humble enough to accept that others do better, so they collaborate. Sure, "Steve Jobs made Apple, but Tim Cook made Apple the most successful company in the world"—quote from the video Apple: The House that Tim Cook Built (see references). My appreciation for innovating, specifically building technology while respecting user privacy and security, started with this 2019 talk at the Stanford Commencement. Tim Cook's commencement address at Stanford in 2019 focused on privacy, technology, and the importance of standing up for what you believe in. He emphasized the role of technology in our lives and the responsibility that comes with it. Cook also discussed the power of privacy and how it shapes our society. These lessons I use even today when I think about #fairwissenschaft. 
Here's curious trivia about Sundar Pichai and me: he was born in Tamil Nadu, India, and went to IIT in West Bengal, India (IIT Kharagpur for BTech), while I was born in West Bengal, India, and went to IIT in Tamil Nadu, India (IIT Madras for MS Chemistry).In Madras, I got more exposure to great #Rajnikanth's movies in original Tamil (my colleagues were kind to translate it to me) and thus realized the true greatness of #RajaniSir #Thalaiva (Rajnikanth, he's on my #fairwissenschaft fantastic 222 list; soon the list will be increased to 250 as I forgot to add Houdini et al.) and also got more exposure to the variety of South Indian cuisine, which made me realize that my favorite South Indian food is not dosa or idli but tamarind rice with ice cream. This adding ice cream to tamarind rice bit was my innovation, and I loved it, but for inexplicable reason it didn't quite catch on. I guess the reason is "what is food to one man (here woman me), is poison to another." My only regret is that the only Tamil language I picked up was "Tamil teriyade" (I don't know how to speak Tamil), because it would be an honor to watch Rajni Sir's movies in Tamil without need of a translator. But that regret is less now because Rajni Sir is kind enough to also make his great movies available in Hindi (which I understand), and when that's not available, there's always #Google, #YouTube's subtitles, and #Google's #GoogleTranslate. After ITT, Sundar Pichai went to Stanford, US, and the rest is history. He proved his metal and worked his way up to become CEO of Google, but here's some trivia about him that few people know: he was also in consideration for the Microsoft CEO position, which eventually went to Satya Nadella. Yeah, you heard me right, Google and Microsoft both wanted Sundar Pichai to be CEO.
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Watched "Jailer" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11663228) and while it has the usual Rajnikanth style, though at a slightly more muted level given his advancing age, it was overall not a movie that probably would not appeal to anybody other than die-hard Rajni fans since it really doesn’t make a lot of sense 😛

The first half of the movie might have kind of worked, given some suspension-of-disbelief, since it was a fairly straightforward story which (kind of worked). But the latter half had a heist segment which didn’t make a lot of sense nor was warranted since the application of a smidgen of logic at the end of the first half would have prevented that storyline altogether 🙂

Overall though, it was good to see Rajni in action (and Mohanlal too) and I think I’ll leave it at that …

#Movies #Tamil #Kollywood #Rajnikanth #Mohanlal