Also turned it off. You can't trust AI enough to get it right so I'd just end up reading all the notifications to make sure I didn't miss anything anyway.
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Apple Faces Criticism Over AI-Generated News Headline Summaries
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AI isn’t perfect, but I like that feature. It will improve. If I want to find out more I click through. No need to have the mentality of throw the baby out with the bath water.
I highly doubt the BBC have started using AI to write articles. It would be the end for them.
“AI continues to make stuff up - people act surprised”
As if AI hasn’t been making stuff up and outright lying since day 1, and continues so to do.
As if AI hasn’t been making stuff up and outright lying since day 1, and continues so to do.
It’s a mess. I started out by disabling summaries on my important apps: news, health, financial, email, messaging and home automation. Last week I went further and turned everything off. Like a lot of AI, it’s half-baked and should never have left the lab.
Reminds me of the quote by Blaise Pascal: “If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter”.
Reminds me of the quote by Blaise Pascal: “If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter”.
Apple should not comply. It’s under “Beta” itself and users have option to opt out of Apple Intelligence entirely to avoid this. Asking Apple to remove this feature is censorship in my opinion.
It’s still in its infancy, and unlike other AIs like Gemini which uses cloud for notification summary (which is a massive privacy disaster waiting to happen), Apple’s notification summary is all done on device via Neural Engine. This is why this is still “Beta” and not a full main feature. Here’s an example of the notification summary I got that’s awray:
The actual notification once expanded:
Summarized notification via Apple Intelligence :
Summarized notification is not accurate but again this is “Beta” so it’s up to users to see if it’s accurate.
Again, users can opt out by disabling it. Although in my opinion, I think only way users should opt out is disabling Apple Intelligence entirely, not just turning off notification summary. This is “Beta” so users need to expect there are some bugs.
Issue aside, who actually wants their phone to send them notifications of the misery around the world??
I know. It’s like taking pill B to to fix pill A’s side effects, and so on through the alphabet!
From the people who brought you Apple Maps and Siri… …comes a new feature with the potential to be great… …that will take another six years to get there… …or will it? Coming a few summers sooner than you’d want.
The BBC article was clear and concise. It was just a typical AI error.
They're without a doubt behind the curve.
But they're also trying to thread the needle with privacy and avoiding all politically incorrect content, which makes their efforts all the more complicated and hence even more behind the curve.
I think it was driven more by the fact that their competitors were promoting AI features and Apple didn't want to seem like they were lacking them (even though they were)
It very much depends, I was using Leo AI last night to help solve a networking problem... Its solution was to install a version of iOS from 2013!
LLMs are a crap solution. I predicted this years ago after reading how they work. Literally every outcome.
I reckon I can retire on short selling on this turd.
I reckon I can retire on short selling on this turd.
Best thing I ever did was turn off all notifications and badges for Linked In. Every hour it would be pinging me with dross.
Now I open the app every couple of weeks and my feed is actually relevant and worth reading. Try it.
Why?
Some of the other Apple Intelligence features are useful.
Notification summaries… Not so much.
And for the record, I’ve left it enabled for weeks, it provided no benefits.
The AI stuff is pretty poor. In Mail, it gave priority to a message that was clearly a phishing attempt. For it not to be considering that in its judgments and potentially propagating risk to users, that’s not a direction any major tech company should be going in.
If it is a beta, it should be in the beta channel, not the release channel. This is a problem with many (most?) LLMs, they are error prone and give the wrong results. But, hey, if we call them hallucinations instead of errors, that makes it all fine!
Not on purpose. That would imply a specific intent. The last I knew computers didn’t feel emotions.
Fake news is correct.
I’m glad that CEOs only exist to increase shareholder value and Apple’s CEO is the ultimate Boy Scout who will never thumb his nose at the board with malicious compliance like Jobs when he knows their demands suck.
Apple should have slow rolled this stuff and let the startup hype train to siphon speculative investment with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NO SERIOUSLY FOR REAL THIS TIME derail.
Apple should have slow rolled this stuff and let the startup hype train to siphon speculative investment with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NO SERIOUSLY FOR REAL THIS TIME derail.