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Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images

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129 points celias | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 18:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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bitpush ◴[27 Jun 25 05:34 UTC] No.44393954[source]▶
I find it fascinating that Apple-centric media sites are stretching so much to position the company in the AI race. The title is meant to say that Apple found something unique that other people missed, when the simplest explanation is they started working on this a while back (2021 paper, afterall) and just released it.

A more accurate headline would be - Apple starting to create images using 4 year old techniques.

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danhau ◴[27 Jun 25 05:57 UTC] No.44394030[source]▶
This „4 year old technique“ apparently could give Apple an edge for on-device workloads.

> short: both Apple and OpenAI are moving beyond diffusion, but while OpenAI is building for its data centers, Apple is clearly building for our pockets.

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bitpush ◴[27 Jun 25 06:45 UTC] No.44394277[source]▶
The same edge Apple had summarizing notifications so poorly that they had to turn it off?

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-not...

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janalsncm ◴[27 Jun 25 07:27 UTC] No.44394511[source]▶
That was a bad and unnecessary feature but the privacy benefits of running a model on device rather than in the cloud are undeniable.
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1. bitpush ◴[27 Jun 25 14:17 UTC] No.44396980[source]▶
The fact that they shipped it shows they don't know what they were doing, private or not.
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2. janalsncm ◴[27 Jun 25 19:44 UTC] No.44399686[source]▶
That’s a little unfair imo. Statistical models make mistakes and have failure modes which are difficult to predict.

When the bug popped up, turning the feature off was easier than retraining and redeploying.