Apple announces Siri will integrate ChatGPT, 5 AI-related tokens fall
Apple's WWDC 2024 conference ended successfully this morning (11th). The focus this time was Apple Intelligence and the announcement that OpenAI's ChatGPT product would be imported into Apple Siri. However, this conference failed to stimulate the interest of traders. Not only did Apple stock close down by about 2%, but the following five AI-related cryptocurrencies also fell simultaneously in the past 24 hours:
Render ($RNDR), Fetch.ai ($FET), SingularityNET ($AGIX): all down 3% to 5%
Bittensor ($TAO): down about 6%
Near Protocol ($NEAR): down 3.2% (although it is not an AI technology token, it is often divided into the AI sector)
The currency circle foreign media "CoinDesk" pointed out that the CoinDesk Computing Sector Index, used to measure AI-related fields, has become one of the worst-performing crypto asset sectors in the past 24 hours, with a cumulative decline of 2.5%, underperforming the broader market index CoinDesk20.
Musk slams Apple for integrating ChatGPT
Apple’s entry into the AI track has aroused doubts from some media and celebrities. Ian Carlos Campbell, deputy editor of the technology foreign media "Inverse", pointed out that since there are billions of Apple users, the combination of Apple products and AI may tend to be conservative and not as revolutionary as expected while ensuring user privacy and security. Sexual changes.
Musk, CEO of Tesla and X (formerly Twitter), questioned whether Apple and OpenAI can really protect user information, and called the integration of the two an unacceptable security violation. He said that if Apple handed over user data to OpenAI, they would not know what happened, and criticized Apple for handing over user data to downstream manufacturers.
Musk also warned that if Apple's operating system determines to integrate OpenAI's products, employees of his companies will be banned from using Apple devices.
Image source: X/Elon Musk
Musk slams Apple's Siri integration on X
Foreign media: disappointed with Apple WWDC 2024
The well-known foreign media "CNET" pointed out that over the years, Apple has usually announced a large number of new hardware products at the WWDC conference, including the mixed reality (MR) helmet Vision Pro that debuted last year, but this year it chose to focus on new software features and AI technology.
Even before the conference, people familiar with the matter broke the news that no new hardware products would be released this time, but reporter David Carnoy still thought it was "a bit disappointing." He privately felt that this conference should bring the following content to users, but unfortunately it did not. occur:
iPhone 16
iPhone SE4
AirPods MAX 2nd Generation
AirPods 4th generation
MAC computers with new chip M4
More affordable Apple TV devices
HomePod long speaker device
AirTag 2 代
Another reporter, Abrar AI-Heeti, pointed out that Apple first promised to support iMessage last year due to the U.S. antitrust law, which accused Apple of failing to extend its iMessage service to the Android system, thereby destroying the function of cross-platform messaging. RCS (Advanced Communications Solutions).
But at this conference, the information about RCS was brushed aside without revealing when it would be launched? What RCS features are supported? And what will the interface design be like? This was a huge disappointment to Abrar.