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ME: "Siri give me directions to the nearest gas station"
SIRI: "Here's the song Directions from the band Gas Station"

I say it like James Hetfield…saf but true (actually that was autocorrect changing sad to saf because I didn’t have English keyblatnthe moment…but makes it even MORE 1337)
 
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If I had to guess, the problem is the 8GB of RAM. That's very little to run any llm, Apple has put themselves in a corner.
So it all comes back to greediness again. Apple always say they’ve been working and planning years before release. So it’s planned obsolescence to get more money and it’s getting worse by the year.
 
Apple stock is down almost 6% today. No doubt their admission that Apple Intelligence isn’t all that has something to do with it.
It can’t fall hard enough if you ask me. Time to let those greedy shareholders to feel some pain too instead of constantly bragging about Apple’s profits 😝
 
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Well that settles it ..

I'm not buying the new iPhone Mini until they get the features sorted and delivered!

My 13 Mini will have to keep soldiering on!
A very wise choice. I also advise you to not only look in the walled Apple garden for a new phone. Compare and choose the one that fits your needs.
 
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ME: "Siri give me directions to the nearest gas station"
SIRI: "Here's the song Directions from the band Gas Station"
I asked Siri how long it would take to drive across the State of Rhode Island.

It gave me directions to some random destination in Rhode Island.

Only then I had to tell it to ask ChatGPT for an answer, which then I received the right information. That shouldn’t happen.
 
It’s like MHBHD always says, never buy a phone with the promise of future software updates. Buy it for what it is now.
Yes but there is a difference Apple as the company actually promised this & the marketing campaign was designed for the 16’s with Apple intelligence.
So he’s talking garbage in this aspect because these phones will get them
 
1 co-worker, no friends and family (though I can think of one or two that might do something like that). The other ones have been, I guess I would call them customers? Clients? I’m involved in some non-profit organizations that deal with the public.

IMO, this is nothing new. I’m sure everyone has experience with that person that reads the first sentence of your email and then replies to that or calls you about that and then when you ask them about the important questions and problems you brought up later in the email they’re like what??? I think it’s the exact same people that do that, just now they’re relying on generative AI and trusting it too much.

I suppose one could argue that my problem is people, not Apple. But Apple certainly enables this behavior and makes it worse. And don’t get me wrong, I’m sure if you ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, et al. to summarize a 50 word text message down to six words it would get it wrong also. The whole idea of summarizing potentially long communications into less than 10 words displayed on a lock screen is just idiotic. It is an ill conceived idea that should’ve never made it past the drawing board. It’s clear they’re trying to address a real problem, which is people being bombarded with so many notifications that they miss the ones that are important. I tried the notification summary feature that gives me an update several times a day, but that didn’t work for me either. But I digress….
I think its fair to say its both a people problem and an Apple problem (you did nothing wrong). I'll have to look out for folks making snap judgement over bad summaries in my sphere and was curious about your experience. I wish we could prevent our messages from being received as summaries for specific people we know are highly reactive.
 
Honestly, AI has been between bad and terrible on most platforms right now. From content creation, to questionable copyright issues, hallucinations, misinformation, etc. Please let this AI-fad blow over asap.
i generally agree, and AI development is costing more while producing less now that they have already Hoovered up almost all the available data.
 
Personally, I think the ads are terrible, not only because they're for a non-available feature, but because they're used to show (encourage?) untruthful behavior. It's one thing to use AI to be reminded of things, it's another to pass off that that you remember details about a person when you don't. Why not be honest - "Oh, Zak, yeah I remembered your face but had to ask Siri about when we met. Now it's coming back to me..."
 
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Hey Siri" Make me a better Liar!
Hurry condense the information I need I know nothing!
Thats what i got out of the video.
 
Can they stop putting Built For Apple Intelligence on everything too?
Tim Cook:
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