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苹果在人工智能领方面远远落后于微软、谷歌和马斯克?库克回应质疑

苹果在人工智能领方面远远落后于微软、谷歌和马斯克?库克回应质疑

CHRISTIAAN HETZNER 2023-08-08
蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook)无意像其他首席执行官一样,通过热门的人工智能炒作来提振自家的股价。但这并不意味着他的公司没有利用人工智能的力量。

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蒂姆·库克或许没有埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)那样的声望,但自2011年以来,他一直默默经营着全球市值最大的公司,而无需许下打造半机械人或在火星上建设永久定居点这类浮夸的承诺。

而且,蒂姆·库克也不屑于效仿特斯拉(Tesla)首席执行官的做法,向苹果公司(Apple)的投资者承诺其公司将迎来“ChatGPT时刻”。

在上周四的季度财报电话会议上,库克宁愿谈论苹果公司近年来推出的首款全新硬件:价值3500美元的Vision Pro头显或者在印度取得的进展(苹果公司在印度开设了第一家零售店),也不愿提及生成式人工智能甚至一般的人工智能。

值得注意的是,直到会议接近尾声,德意志银行(Deutsche Bank)的分析师悉尼•何(Sidney Ho)终于提起人工智能时,这个让英伟达(Nvidia)几乎在一夜之间市值飙升数千亿美元而突破万亿美元的话题才被提出来。

他指出,“你在人工智能方面的战略似乎与许多首席执行官迥然不同,至少你就很少谈论人工智能”,并询问库克能否详细说明他对这项突破性技术的投资,以及该技术对苹果公司未来收入的潜在影响。

库克有力地回应道,虽然他不谈论人工智能,但这并不代表他的工程师团队没有利用这项技术的力量。他表示,如果不是运用该技术,今年秋天将推出的iOS 17的一些功能(如个人语音功能)——甚至苹果手表(Apple Watch)已有的摔倒检测功能——就不可能实现。

这位苹果公司的首席执行官回答道:“我们将人工智能和机器学习视为核心基础技术,它们几乎是我们打造的每一款产品不可或缺的一部分。”目前,苹果公司的市值已经相当于三个英伟达加起来的市值。

据MarketWatch统计,苹果公司的电话会议上一共6次提到人工智能,全都发生在同一次交谈中。相比之下,微软(Microsoft)提到73次,Alphabet提到90次——这两家科技公司分别在ChatGPT和谷歌Bard中使用了彼此竞争的大型语言模型。

并非每个首席执行官都像库克一样有保持低调的资本

与此同时,特斯拉的马斯克却一再声称,当涉及生成式人工智能时,他的公司总是被投资者不公正地排除在讨论之外。

在上个月的投资者电话会议上,马斯克将其公司在人工智能领域的成果与微软和谷歌(Google)的大型语言模型进行了比较,并称对于他常说的“带有轮子的半感知机器人”,特斯拉正在追求一个远比以往更加野心勃勃的目标。

这位企业家预测,他的公司很快将迎来“ChatGPT时刻”,到那时数百万辆特斯拉智能汽车将在一夜之间获得生命,可以无需人类监督而完全自主驾驶。

马斯克相信,当空中下载技术软件补丁面世时,特斯拉的资产价值将创下有史以来最大的单次涨幅。据他估计,这将有助于推动特斯拉的市值(目前仅为8210亿美元)达到苹果公司的两倍。

相比之下,库克更多的是从人工智能如何能“为了丰富人们生活而以负责任的方式改进我们的产品”的角度来看待人工智能,而不是把它当成在对投资者大肆宣传时随意抛出的词。

对人工智能发表完看法后,这位苹果公司的首席执行官再次将注意力放回到电话会议的其它问题上,称他不打算改变这种低调的方式。

库克说:“我们倾向于在产品投入市场时再公开它们;这是我们一贯的做法,我想坚持这点。”(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-刘嘉欢

蒂姆·库克或许没有埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)那样的声望,但自2011年以来,他一直默默经营着全球市值最大的公司,而无需许下打造半机械人或在火星上建设永久定居点这类浮夸的承诺。

而且,蒂姆·库克也不屑于效仿特斯拉(Tesla)首席执行官的做法,向苹果公司(Apple)的投资者承诺其公司将迎来“ChatGPT时刻”。

在上周四的季度财报电话会议上,库克宁愿谈论苹果公司近年来推出的首款全新硬件:价值3500美元的Vision Pro头显或者在印度取得的进展(苹果公司在印度开设了第一家零售店),也不愿提及生成式人工智能甚至一般的人工智能。

值得注意的是,直到会议接近尾声,德意志银行(Deutsche Bank)的分析师悉尼•何(Sidney Ho)终于提起人工智能时,这个让英伟达(Nvidia)几乎在一夜之间市值飙升数千亿美元而突破万亿美元的话题才被提出来。

他指出,“你在人工智能方面的战略似乎与许多首席执行官迥然不同,至少你就很少谈论人工智能”,并询问库克能否详细说明他对这项突破性技术的投资,以及该技术对苹果公司未来收入的潜在影响。

库克有力地回应道,虽然他不谈论人工智能,但这并不代表他的工程师团队没有利用这项技术的力量。他表示,如果不是运用该技术,今年秋天将推出的iOS 17的一些功能(如个人语音功能)——甚至苹果手表(Apple Watch)已有的摔倒检测功能——就不可能实现。

这位苹果公司的首席执行官回答道:“我们将人工智能和机器学习视为核心基础技术,它们几乎是我们打造的每一款产品不可或缺的一部分。”目前,苹果公司的市值已经相当于三个英伟达加起来的市值。

据MarketWatch统计,苹果公司的电话会议上一共6次提到人工智能,全都发生在同一次交谈中。相比之下,微软(Microsoft)提到73次,Alphabet提到90次——这两家科技公司分别在ChatGPT和谷歌Bard中使用了彼此竞争的大型语言模型。

并非每个首席执行官都像库克一样有保持低调的资本

与此同时,特斯拉的马斯克却一再声称,当涉及生成式人工智能时,他的公司总是被投资者不公正地排除在讨论之外。

在上个月的投资者电话会议上,马斯克将其公司在人工智能领域的成果与微软和谷歌(Google)的大型语言模型进行了比较,并称对于他常说的“带有轮子的半感知机器人”,特斯拉正在追求一个远比以往更加野心勃勃的目标。

这位企业家预测,他的公司很快将迎来“ChatGPT时刻”,到那时数百万辆特斯拉智能汽车将在一夜之间获得生命,可以无需人类监督而完全自主驾驶。

马斯克相信,当空中下载技术软件补丁面世时,特斯拉的资产价值将创下有史以来最大的单次涨幅。据他估计,这将有助于推动特斯拉的市值(目前仅为8210亿美元)达到苹果公司的两倍。

相比之下,库克更多的是从人工智能如何能“为了丰富人们生活而以负责任的方式改进我们的产品”的角度来看待人工智能,而不是把它当成在对投资者大肆宣传时随意抛出的词。

对人工智能发表完看法后,这位苹果公司的首席执行官再次将注意力放回到电话会议的其它问题上,称他不打算改变这种低调的方式。

库克说:“我们倾向于在产品投入市场时再公开它们;这是我们一贯的做法,我想坚持这点。”(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-刘嘉欢

Tim Cook may not enjoy the same stature of an Elon Musk, but he has quietly run the world’s most valuable company since 2011—without the need for flashy promises of cyborgs or permanent settlements on Mars.

And he’s not about to be lured into copying the Tesla CEO by promising a “ChatGPT moment” for Apple investors, either.

During the quarterly earnings call on Thursday, Cook preferred to talk about his first all-new hardware in years, the $3,500 Vision Pro headset, or his progress in India, where the first retail stores were opened, rather than generative artificial intelligence or even A.I. in general.

Notably the subject—which added hundreds of billions to Nvidia stock and made it a trillion-dollar stock practically overnight—did not come up at all until almost the very end, when Deutsche Bank analyst Sidney Ho finally raised the issue.

“Your strategy on A.I. seems quite different than many of your peers, at least you don’t talk too much about that,” he noted, asking if Cook could elaborate on his investment in the groundbreaking technology and its likely impact on the company’s revenue going forward.

Cook answered by effectively saying that just because he doesn’t talk about it doesn’t mean his engineers are not harnessing its power. Some of the features of iOS 17 coming in autumn such as personal voice—or even the Apple Watch’s currently available fall detection—would not have been possible without its use, he argued.

“We view A.I. and machine learning as core fundamental technologies that are integral to virtually every product that we build,” replied the Apple CEO, whose company is already worth the equivalent of three Nvidias put together.

In total, MarketWatch tallied up just six references to A.I. during Apple’s call, all of which occurred during that one exchange. This compares with 73 for Microsoft and 90 for Alphabet, the two tech companies with competing large language models in ChatGPT and Google Bard, respectively.

Not every CEO can afford to be as low-key as Cook

Tesla’s Musk meanwhile has repeatedly claimed his company has unjustly been left out of the investor conversation when it comes to generative A.I.

Comparing his company’s A.I. work to Microsoft’s and Google’s LLMs during last month’s investor call, Musk claimed Tesla is pursuing a far more ambitious goal with what he has often called his “semi-sentient robots on wheels.”

The entrepreneur predicted his company would soon see its own “ChatGPT moment” when millions of his intelligent cars overnight come to life and drive themselves entirely on their own with no need for human supervision.

Musk believes this over-the-air software patch, when it comes, will result in the single biggest asset value increase in history. This would then help boost the market cap of Tesla, currently worth only $821 billion, to twice that of Apple, by his own estimate.

By comparison, Cook viewed A.I. more through the prism of how it can “responsibly advance our products with the goal of enriching people’s lives” and less as a word to be thrown around liberally at a time of investor hype.

Finishing his remarks on the subject before turning his attention again to other matters on the call, the Apple CEO said he had no plans to depart from that low-key approach.

“We tend to announce things as they come to market; that’s our MO, and I’d like to stick to that,” Cook said.

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