Guess I am too attached to my phone. This is hardly ever the case for me as I check every notification as soon as it reaches me. Makes sense for influencers and celebrities with a billion of notification at once I suppose
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I wonder if the SEOs poison of the world will find its way here too?
Just like in the beginnings of the internet, searching for apples and bananas would result in many pages about apples and bananas -from the very first hit- but today it would instead pollute the results with so many of the sort “celebrities that like apples! Number 15 is bananas!”
Wouldn’t be surprised if the webpage summaries could be tricked too.
On another note, for those complaining that there’s going to be missing information on emails and message notifications… not finding that argument to be that strong.
Myself I just see it as a glorified “subject” and “first lines description” preview that we have already but a bit more clever… nobody complains that the subject or description preview doesn’t have all the info, of course it doesn’t, but it helps big time to hopefully have an idea what is it about: is it about a delivery incoming soon? Is it just potential spam? A bank important message? Etc. THEN we click on the thing to have the whole content.
Just like in the beginnings of the internet, searching for apples and bananas would result in many pages about apples and bananas -from the very first hit- but today it would instead pollute the results with so many of the sort “celebrities that like apples! Number 15 is bananas!”
Wouldn’t be surprised if the webpage summaries could be tricked too.
On another note, for those complaining that there’s going to be missing information on emails and message notifications… not finding that argument to be that strong.
Myself I just see it as a glorified “subject” and “first lines description” preview that we have already but a bit more clever… nobody complains that the subject or description preview doesn’t have all the info, of course it doesn’t, but it helps big time to hopefully have an idea what is it about: is it about a delivery incoming soon? Is it just potential spam? A bank important message? Etc. THEN we click on the thing to have the whole content.
I sometimes feel that thanks to AI and SEOpocalypse Google has dumbed down their search engine so that user spends MORE time searching something than is actually needed. Back when Google had old design with blue/purple links I found info much more faster (and minus the ad sponsored links at the top, hopefully on mac those are removed by adequate adblock). And now they also added those “fake news” styled snippets at the top, what a world🤦♂️
So... when ever i meet a human being who uses AI i can from now on never be sure again, what they are saying or writing is actually what they themselves think and probably mean? I have always be wary, when being in a conversation with someone who owns an iPhone 15/16 they probably will record every call?
Don't you want the physics defying space heater that energy companies don't want you to know about? Don't you want to know about the miracle green tea derived hair growth formula that the Maya have been using for centuries?
AI will generate all scam ads and be run by some anon shell companies in the Caymans and Dubai.
Oh what am I saying they already do this scams with Google and YouTube's blessing. Amazing what happens when you have yes men CEOs.
Summaries have been mostly okay for me, however…
“Smart” replies are utterly moronic and always wrong.
Clean up is still raw sewage
These features are simply being rushed out half baked, we’re 2 weeks away from 18.1 public release and it’s still so trash.
This is what happens when you focus on vanity project headsets and then use AI in marketing to sell a lacklustre phone.
“Smart” replies are utterly moronic and always wrong.
Clean up is still raw sewage
These features are simply being rushed out half baked, we’re 2 weeks away from 18.1 public release and it’s still so trash.
This is what happens when you focus on vanity project headsets and then use AI in marketing to sell a lacklustre phone.
Steve & co. would have never jumped into a half-baked technology. He would have recognized the shortcomings of AI and waited until the technology was mature. Being as sharp as he and his team were, they wouldn’t have just slapped AI onto the iPhone. No chance. They would have carefully studied the incredible potential of AI to create a completely new product. So, when the technology behind AI assistants was truly ready, Apple would have delivered a masterstroke that would knock out the competition and dominate the market. Steve was all about vision and laser beam focus. He would have clearly understood that AI assistants have the potential to revolutionize the world just like the iPhone did. He wouldn’t have missed that opportunity, especially by doing the lame thing Microsoft always does—pushing half-baked technology everywhere just to say they have it.
So does this only work with apples native email app? I hate apple mail for my business email account, it’s so limiting. Will I be able to use these features with 3rd party mail apps like outlook?
So now it is two steps instead of one to make sure the information is correct.
Perfect innovation.
If you can't trust the summary then there is no need for the summary.
I like summaries but it’s summarizing and highlighting spam. Messages I plan to delete, it’s making them important due to key words. I have a feeling spam builders know this and will continue to take advantage of the service with keywords that are deemed important.
Good question. I've always assumed any AI in Outlook and other Office programs would be MS's Copilot.
That said, I've been thinking of ditching Outlook (messy macOS interface with numerous functions that are overkill for me plus it's been identifying clients' emails as junk, despite my repeatedly flagging them and their senders as legit). In which ways do you find Apple Mail limiting for business use? Thx.
No one is telling you to use it. If you don’t want to use it, then turn it off. I’ve been using it and haven’t had any problems missing out on important information. The use case, to me, is grabbing your phone out of your pocket, taking a peak and seeing if there was anything important, then putting it back in your pocket if you don’t want to respond right then. Don’t use it if you don’t trust it.
I wish they generated summaries of iMessage audio messages.
They already make transcripts - all they need to do is feed that in to the summariser.
You can do it manually by highlighting all the text, but that’s annoying to do for long messages so I’d appreciate if they just did it automatically.
They already make transcripts - all they need to do is feed that in to the summariser.
You can do it manually by highlighting all the text, but that’s annoying to do for long messages so I’d appreciate if they just did it automatically.
Companies do like to slap the AI sticker onto everything these days.
I bet there’s brand new toilets for sale that come with “AI machine-learning” features.