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The Verge and others are reporting that Apple's big bets on AI is leading to product innovations sooner than you may expect. This includes their plans to add dedicated AI processing in future versions of the iPhone. The initial use of this is an important one. A lot of needed developments in smart phones are code intensive. This includes augmented reality, biometrics, simulations and advanced encryption technologies. This is not to mention the potential for sci-fi inspired leaps in automated assistants.
Tasks that are very code intensive are therefore processor intensive and that makes them power and therefore battery intensive. Add AI chips to iPhones and you reduce the processing power that needs to be dedicated to these tasks and make smaller batteries last longer. This is important because productizing AI technologies will drive massive increases in innovations. Profits, manufacturing scale, increased job creation and attraction of investment dollars are the fastest way to accelerate any field. Academic, government and venture investment are important too but the drive they provide is very different. When the field gets pushed forward by the economic tsunamis that products like the iPhone create it will lead to more rapid advances on the other end of the computing spectrum. Today it can take super computers up to a year to run certain simulations. Quantum chromodynamics is the theory of strong interactions and relates to model of nuclear forces. Astrophysical and cosmological dark matter simulations can take months. So when you buy future iPhones you may be powering the forces that will unlock our understanding of everything from atomic processes to the very structure of the universe.
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AuthorMichael Zammuto is the CEO of Completed.com and Cloud Commerce and a strategic adviser to several startups. Mike's background is in SaaS services, B2C sites and B2B firms and has worked extensively in online reputation, digital marketing and branding. Archives
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