The chatbot thing seems to be less and less of a passing fad, and the Apple GPT is, on first reading, further proof and particularly convincing that at least today The entire technology sector is considering many plans for this type of servicealbeit with different deployment strategies And yes, it’s true that chatbots have been around for decades (the credit for being the first goes to ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966), but it’s undeniable that the appearance of ChatGPT at the end of last year marked a before and after.

Until then, with a few exceptions (such as the ill-fated Toy from Microsoft, which served as a rough-and-tumble learning curve for the entire industry), chatbots were mainly oriented towards use in professional environments. OpenAI design showed that chatbots also have a place in the end-user world and since then we have seen the arrival of new designs led by Bard and Bing. from Google and Microsoft. And we have also seen more than a significant number of services that are based on existing chatbots, although we have seen some restrictive moves by some of those responsible for said services to integrate them into other platforms.

Thanks to extensive movements in the sector For several months now, many of us have been wondering about Apple’s plans, if any, in relation to artificial intelligence. And it’s because earlier in the year at an in-house event, Tim Cook was heard boasting about the company’s AI advances, despite not having products and services aimed at competing with the plethora of the same that have emerged and/or popularized over the past year and a half.

Well, it seems that we are already facing a movement to compete in this field. And as we can read in Bloomberg, Apple is working on its own chatbot, which is internally called Apple GPT for now. This temporary and internal name doesn’t make you think it’s the result of a collaboration between Apple and OpenAI, because in fact the Cupertinos are also working on their own core technology, including their own LLM (Large Language Model). Of course, Google JAX, the search engine company’s machine learning framework, would serve this purpose.

According to Marc Gurman, who signs off on this information, we will have to wait a little longer to at least officially know what they are up to in Cupertino, although the name Apple GPT already puts us on the track, because the company is considering a major announcement about this sometime next year. And while it could be anytime, for context it makes sense to think it will happen at WWDC 2024, so we’d have to wait about a year.

It seems unlikely (though not impossible) that Apple will consider launching another chatbot, so We can suspect that their plans include integration into future versions of their operating systems, perhaps a highly evolved version of Siri.. Recall that, in this sense, Microsoft announced Copilot for Windows 11 a few months ago, precisely to cover the space left by Cortana, its voice assistant. So it’s too early to talk, but we can already start thinking about Siri 2.0 with functions similar to ChatGPT, but with the special touch that Apple always gives to its products, in the versions of the operating systems that will debut on the market in September 2024.