I guarantee it'll be mostly useless. It might work 9 out of 10 times but that last missing time but that last 1 out of 10 times it screws you over on a hallucination or bad assumption will instantly devalue it to 0.
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I guarantee it'll be mostly useless. It might work 9 out of 10 times but that last missing time but that last 1 out of 10 times it screws you over on a hallucination or bad assumption will instantly devalue it to 0.
You're using CoPilot, that's why.
Try again with Gemini and it'll slap you with a roll of electronic newspaper.
Yep I agree. I don't trust the AI not to mess up every once in awhile, and it could completely screw you over that 1 time.
Bing Image Creator is free and it looks like it works better than Apple's Image Playground. Google's Imagen 3 / ImageFX is also free. Midjourney is usually a paid service, but it's also temporarily free.
If you want to find good coffee along your route, Google Gemini is accessible via the Google app on iOS, and you can ask it to find you good coffee (or whatever you're in the mood for) in a specific area or along a specific stretch of road, and it'll show you those results on a map, along with links to establishments, customer ratings, and a little description of what they're like. It's much easier to access and gives more information if you're using a Pixel, but it still works surprisingly well on iOS. Perplexity (also available via an app) will do the same thing, with even more information.
All of this is available today, on your current iPhone. No betas, no waitlists, no "maybe you'll get it by this date, but only if you buy a new device."
For me new ”AI” features are just… new features. And as always I’m interested in some new features depending are they just gimmicky “play for first 2 days” kinda features or seriously useful for my needs. Like Animojis, I played with them 2 days when they were launched and then never ever used them again.
There was a time when people didn't even see the need for smartphones. Apple Intelligence will reshape the universe in ways people can't imagine right now. In a couple of years, you'll struggle to maintain your existence without Apple Intelligence directing you.
Sure, Apple's image generator is handicapped. But are Gemini and Perplexity really competitors to Apple Intelligence? Those are both, for the most part, chatbots with search engines strapped onto them.
Maybe Apple Intelligence looks like that as well at the moment. I can't wait for Personal and Onscreen awareness to hit - those features all looked super impressive and actually useful day to day.
I think you're running on faith which shows you are even less objective than an LLM.
Here's Gemini's version where it doesn't understand that a capacitor is in Farads and an inductor is in Henries, and it produces an incorrect answer authoritatively without even questioning.
That demonstrates three points:
1. This is garbage.
2. People trust it when they shouldn't.
3. People who do know how these things work really do know how they work.
This whole concept is a dead end. But it won't happen until there's some dead bodies involved.
an honest assessment, nope. I think some 'bright' person will determine how to use it to place product/service, then back down the sewer of search engines again, I hope not but fear possible dark reality.
Nope. It's clear for visionaries like me where the world is headed.
Oh so we get a different answer. Even better! Sometimes it knows and sometimes it doesn't.
Also 1THz makes no sense in context to the question, which it does not understand.
It is garbage.
Edit: I argued with it some more
1. this is wrong .... ok so it apologised then worked out the units.
2. 1THz doesn't make sense in a lumped circuit model .... so it apologised again and said what about a transmission line model.
3. this is wrong. It's a fully distributed model ... so it suggested full wave EM simulation, which is sort of right.
This is completely bloody useless if you have to tell it that it's wrong every two minutes when it makes errors even a undergrad EE wouldn't make.
As you've demonstrated, the quality of the prompt is still a heavy factor in the usefulness of the response. Garbage in, garbage out.
You'll deny it, but I bet this is a continuation of a current chat that causes the AI to try and build on earlier parts of your conversation. Start a new chat and prompt it.
This was done as a new chat entirely.
I asked continued questions if you see the edited post, giving it more "input" (tokens).
The point is irrelevant though. It could not parse or understand the question conclusively on the first try. It could not validate that the question made sense. And it gave an authoritative answer immediately which was firstly incorrect, secondly misleading and thirdly quite insane.
I mean I have a friend Paul, who thinks he knows everything. But in fact he just did a bit too much weed and his brain doesn't know when to tell him to shut up and think about stuff. I trust him to get an objective answer on something more than the best language model.
I am not paying for it so I can't test it.
Why would I pay for something which is fractionally less misleading?
The value tends to zero.
A dystopian hellscape run by hallucinating automation that gaslights people into believing that they are doing something worthy for their existence other than feeding data into the model which gaslights them.
That's no better than middle management today!
I'm on a 30 day trial which I think is open to anyone.
Would I pay for this? Hell no.
Will I pay for Apple Intelligence? Hell yeah. It's clear Apple is building a cohesive intelligence experience around its entire ecosystem that just makes sense for everyone.
People will have their reasons for using or not using AI, and the reasons will be valid for them.
However, you cannot use Siri to gauge anything, because even if we define Siri as AI (I don't), as some people do, it is not remotely close to what people want when they think of AI, and Siri cannot even deliver on the things that it is supposed to do.
Suppose you claim that you will never ride on a plane because you never go anywhere on roller skates, it would make no sense, only that in this analogy Siri is worse than roller skates.