Apple Says M2 iPad Air Has 9 GPU Cores, Not 10 as Originally Stated

[VulchR]

We also need to stop imbuing these algorithms with agency. AI can't lie, or be unethical. I can be trained to do so by lying or unethical humans. If not trained specifically for that purpose, then the AI response is simply wrong.

Good point. I agree that AI is amoral. That does not mean its output can't be unethical. Just ask Taylor Swift...

EDIT: Also, bear in mind that any algorithm using reinforcement learning at any level gives AI agency.

 

[currocj]

Tim to the team: we found more binned CPUs/GPUs, quick… update the website!

 

[CarAnalogy]

Isn't one GPU core the difference between the current iPhone processors? So does it make a big difference, or not? When it's in Apple's marketing favor, apparently so. When not, apparently not.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Proper amateur hour at Apple these days.

 

[Total Respray]

The overarching point here is Apple’s underhand way of dealing with this. This behaviour does not engender trust in their ethics or transparency.

 

[slippery-pete]

I'll tell you what, I am not sure why some people come to this board. All the negativity and complaining. Must be miserable in their day to day lives.

 

[Analog Kid]

Good point. I agree that AI is amoral. That does not mean its output can't be unethical. Just ask Taylor Swift...

EDIT: Also, bear in mind that any algorithm using reinforcement learning at any level gives AI agency.

It's output can be used unethically, that's different than the output itself being unethical. Sadly, I lost Taylor's number so can't get the specifics from her...

Saying reinforcement learning gives AI agency then gives any system with a feedback loop agency. AI, at least to date, is just an algorithm. It is a complex and opaque algorithm, but there's no sign right now that any of these systems have an agenda beyond transforming input to output.

 

[Darth Tulhu]

Does it really matter? with iPadOS you can still do everything on chips from five years ago

Exactly.

iPadOS is ripe for a Pro vs regular OS fork.

As long as the common denominator is the base iPad with an A-Series chip, we'll be stuck here.

 

[truthsteve]

They wouldn't advertise 10 cores if it wouldn't sell more iPads

I'm sure they would love the impending class action lawsuit just to sell a bit more units of iPads

 

[Someyoungguy]

“Buy now before it loses another core next month!”

“Buy now or another core gets it!”

 

[Someyoungguy]

Proper amateur hour at Apple these days.

I blame “WFO” (work from office). Seriously, when do we get to start claiming this to all the dimwits who blamed previous issues on WFH?

 

[btrach144]

Isn’t this false advertising for those who already bought one and are outside their return window? Seems like another class action waiting to happen.

 

[Silverado]

OMG. Watching for falling sky 🫣

 

[anthogag]

Some people believe 10 is a lucky number, not 9 😂

 

[d-klumpp]

I’m not one to talk when it comes to clerical errors, but I’m also not writing technical copy for Apple….

Right -- how does this happen?! Can't imagine, "About your car, we meant, 'you'll love that 3-cylinder engine!'"

 

[Piggie]

As the very old saying goes:

Core today, Gone tomorrow

 

[mansplains]

The core will be added back in iPadOS 18, that’s the only update

 

[Ghost31]

I would be expecting a $59.90 or $79.90 refund from Apple if I already purchased one of the new Airs.

Entitlement. How about a hot stone massage from Tim Cook himself?

 

[VulchR]

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Saying reinforcement learning gives AI agency then gives any system with a feedback loop agency. AI, at least to date, is just an algorithm. It is a complex and opaque algorithm, but there's no sign right now that any of these systems have an agenda beyond transforming input to output.

I would not only say that AI using reinforcement learning has agency (a drive that guides behaviour), but that the AI is addicted, but that's just my opinion (as somebody working in the neuroscience of reinforcement learning).

 

[SFjohn]

Does it really matter? with iPadOS you can still do everything on chips from five years ago

You are able to run Death Stranding Director’s Cut on your iPad from 5 years ago? Sure you are… 😂

 

[tomtad]

Here comes the lawsuit

 

[TechRunner]

What if people who already purchased do have 10 GPU cores and it's just new ones that have 9+?

Tongue-in-cheek my friend. 'Twas a joke.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Did they wait for the preorders to ship to issue this correction?

 

[AndyMacAndMic]

Not an issue. Move on.

I didn't realise you where promoted to the traffic police force. Congrats!

 

[Analog Kid]

I would not only say that AI using reinforcement learning has agency (a drive that guides behaviour), but that the AI is addicted, but that's just my opinion (as somebody working in the neuroscience of reinforcement learning).

Anything with a feedback loop has a drive that guides behavior. Maybe we're using different definitions of what agency means in this context, but I take it to include self determination and intent. My car's cruise control is a drive that guides behavior, but I wouldn't assign it agency. Likewise the voltage regulator in my power supply. Or the spin rate governor in a steam engine.

Perhaps "self determination" would have been a better phrase for me to use...

A neural network transforms inputs to outputs. We can wrap it in some interesting control systems and feedback loops to converge to the desired mapping function more quickly or perhaps with less precise expectations provided in training, but I believe it a stretch to think it has any sense of ethics guiding its decision or that it is pursuing any agenda beyond the goal of providing the most correct output for the given input. Maybe humans exhibit ethics because our neural nets are so much more complex and interconnected, but at the level of sophistication we have with artificial networks we're far from being able to assign right and wrong to the machine rather than the humans creating and using it.