I love when Apple Intelligence "summarizes" my last 30 long Slack messages on 10 different topics into 20 words or less. Comedy gold. Also, completely useless.
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In the South, it has to be "Y'all ain't gonna believe this..."
Yes, more time in the oven. Apple needs to stop pushing out half-baked products. By the time AI is ready for prime time, it would have generated enough ill will that people won't even give it a chance. I don't know if their auto-correct is working properly, but I never have it turned on anymore. I've ended too many emails with "kind retards" thanks to frakking auto-correct.😠
You cannot criticize something you admittedly turned off a while ago. Auto-correct is working just fine for me, and I’m regularly using two or three languages: English, Italian and Dutch.
AI was to be released, and it will improve over the time. If you don’t think it is ready for your needs, just don’t use it.
I just don’t get it anymore. Siri is stupider than ever. I asked her today to navigate to one of my contacts and she couldn’t do it.
Me: Navigate to person X
Siri: what do you want to know about person X
Me: driving directions
Siri: where do you want to go?
Me: person X
Siri: what do you want to know about person X
Me: driving directions to X
Siri: there is no contact called driving directions
Me: drive to person X
Siri: calling person X
Me: *hits a tree*
Apple, fix what you promised over a decade ago instead of adding new buggy features.
Me: Navigate to person X
Siri: what do you want to know about person X
Me: driving directions
Siri: where do you want to go?
Me: person X
Siri: what do you want to know about person X
Me: driving directions to X
Siri: there is no contact called driving directions
Me: drive to person X
Siri: calling person X
Me: *hits a tree*
Apple, fix what you promised over a decade ago instead of adding new buggy features.
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Seems Apple should have opted-in to not offer this feature until the bugs were worked out. Releasing a feature like this for real-world testing to work out the bugs is a dumb move.
Those examples are hilarious but serious, and serious but hilarious, all at the same time
The problem is, everybody else is also throwing out half-baked products as well, but most of those companies aren't held to the same high bar as Apple, when it comes to product perfection.
I have yet to use an GPT tool that doesn't make similar errors, yet OpenAI, Microsoft, Claude, Leo et al seem to get a pass or the errors are just shrugged off and are good for a quick laugh, especially when they were as far along in their development as Apple's currently is, maybe because Apple is so far behind in getting something to market, that we have forgotten how bad those others were?
In recent years, Apple has released a number of products prematurely: maps, autocorrect, crash detection, Siri😁 and now AI.
I have heard maps and autocorrect works well now, but too late for me. I have lost faith in those two. They could fart rainbows and piddle coins, but I still won't use them. The trust is gone.
Aye. There's a backlash against AI among a lot of folk today because of the hit or miss results generated by AI. Mostly in the older generation. We grew up on Star Trek and have come to expect AI to function at the 24th/25th century level.🤓 Go big or go home.
Today's garbage AI is really off putting.
I only use Apple Maps, I don't even have Google Maps installed on my phone. For the 2-3 times a year that I actually use it, it is fine.
There probably is something to the Star Trek argument (also 2001
). But, for me, I want to have results I can rely on, not ones where I have to go and double check the results, because I don't trust them.There was a consumer protection TV programme in the UK when I was growing up and I used to watch it regularly and found it helpful... Until they did a report on viruses and email service providers, or something, and the information they provided was so wildly wrong that I lost all confidence in them, when they were giving advice in domains where I didn't have the knowledge to decide whether they were giving sensible or accurate advice or not.
That’s the maddening thing. It’s so unreliable and unpredictable.
Some things just require time to evolve. Features like crash detection, save some lives but have false positives seems like a net positive. AI absolutely looking forward to some very useful integration.
I haven’t lost faith, still have trust and like the above. YMMV.
I think the backlash is MR amplified.
Yes I’m there, but also look forward to ai.
No, it’s in beta and there is money, time and talent being thrown at it. I don’t feel it’s off putting.
People hold Apple to a higher standard because that's their whole business model. They charge a *ton* more and people expect it to be high quality
Other companies are cheap or even free and people understand that you get what you pay for
If Apple's software isn't high quality, we're not getting what we pay for
But, in this case, the Apple software is free and the competition costs between $20 and $200 a month...