Apple is testing a new ChatGPT-like generative AI tool called “Ask,” that, if testing is successful, will aid technical support employees to offer faster support in the future. Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: ‎ Apple recently launched a pilot program that provides select AppleCare support advisors with access to a new tool called “Ask” that can automatically generate responses to technical questions they receive from customers, according to information obtained by MacRumors. Advisors can then relay the info to customers in online chats or on the phone. “Ask” will automatically respond to a query with relevant information from Apple’s internal knowledge base, and advisors can rate an answer as “helpful” or “unhelpful.” Advisors can ask up to five follow-up questions per…

Apple, scrambling to catch up in artificial intelligence capabilities, is nearing the completion of a generative AI tool for app developers that would step up competition with the world’s most valuable company, Microsoft, Alphabet, xAI, and others. Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News: ‎ The company has been working on the tool for the last year as part of the next major version of Xcode, Apple’s flagship programming software. It has now expanded testing of the features internally and has ramped up development ahead of a plan to release it to third-party software makers as early as this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The new system will operate similarly to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and use artificial intelligence…

The latest demonstration of Apple's AI expertise is Keyframer, software that turns an image into a video based on natural language instructions. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

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Apple's vice president of product design Tang Tan is set to join Jony Ive's LoveFrom to design hardware products for OpenAI, Bloomberg reports. Tan will become the latest Apple designer to join LoveFrom, a design company founded by Jony Ive after he departed Apple in 2019. A total of 14 members of Ive's former design team at Apple have now left the company. Only around six designers who once reported to Ive still remain at Apple. Ive took more Apple designers with him to LoveFrom than remain at Apple. To date, more than 20 former Apple employees have joined Ive's new design firm, including Marc Newson and Shota Aoyagi. Bloomberg says that Ive's work for OpenAI marks one of his…