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Clearly says he's through to the final, doesn't it? Admittedly it uses a bit of that weird language that's only used in headlines (though only a bit - just the word "cruises"), but still, I don't think it was ambiguous.

I think this is just what you get when you try to summarise summaries. It's a stupid thing to do.

I think "cruises to final...after defeating" is confusing. Like the meaning is definitely clear to human readers, but I definitely had to read it twice to fully grasp it.

More importantly - somebody not winning a sports competition is not news!

No arguments here 😂 could say the same about random nonagenarian actors/composers/playwrights/artists dying, which the NYT is constantly bombarding me with.
 
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If Apple Maps had been especially prone to directing people off cliffs, or Apple Pay had been inclined to send money to the wrong person they might not have got there...

There's a difference between missing features or a rubbish UI and actively spewing disinformation.

...and this is straight up false information hallucinated by "AI" that isn't yet fit for purpose, easily solved by simply not rolling out products like this that simply aren't ready. We're not talking about anything debatable, it's not about censoring someone's opinion, or stuff being labeled as "fake news" by people who disagree with it.
The product is in beta. Additionally, both google maps and apple Maps sent people off cliffs in the beginning.

Nobody is guaranteeing that AI is yet thinking as a human. So while this tech is being improved the guardrails to using it as our common sense.
 
It even gets Apple news wrong…

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I think that this helps prove an issue that is not just an AI problem. Without context I can see that many PEOPLE would also see Apple @ Work: Ubiquiti unveils... they would say uh... I don't know what Ubiquiti means but cool that apple launches Wifi 7, hopefully they will update the Mac to support it soon.

AI uses Natural Language to summarize, when the language is not natural, it's going to have a hard time.

I think part of the reason that this is "dangerous" is because our headlines leave a lot up to interpretation.
 
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This portends ill as AI burps, coughs, flatulates, and defecates "forward". What will we see when really fine-grained "intelligence" is called up?
 
I doubt it'll ever work reliably. Language is subtle and irregular lexically and semantically speaking. You can't conclusively define a language well enough for there to be any determinism in interpretation of it. If you look at how humans react to language which is carefully crafted to have meaning other than what is obviously written or uses idiomatic or metaphorical speech rather than simple conceptual speech then it gets even dirtier.

What pops out is a statistical approximation of the information that went in. If you include a metaphor which is obvious but has been contextually adapted then it'll throw the weights off and garbage comes out every single time.

Statistical approximations also have a significant error. The current error margin is 30-40% on the best models on even basic things. That is large enough with low enough confidence that validation is required for every output, which is likely more costly than doing the work yourself in the first place, at least from experience.

Add to that, the cost of generation and execution of the models grows exponentially whereas the error decline is almost linear, suggests it'll never converge on a usable product. We're already hitting a hard wall now and investors are losing interest in propping it up.

Really though, if you assume that 1 in 3 things the summary says is bullcrap and you have to Google everything and find a source and check it yourself in case it's talking bullcrap, is that a viable technology?

Nope!

And trust it you must not from day one. Unless what you are creating or using it for is of zero value.
very well said!
 
More importantly - somebody not winning a sports competition is not news!
...but the result of a sports match being announced before the match has taken place might be news - and might be detrimental to the reputation of the news agency to which it was falsely attributed.
 
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Apple Intelligence is the dumbest product Apple ever released to the public.

Should’ve never been released in this state at all and I’m sure under some other well known CEO this would’ve never seen any customer.

But hey, I’m glad that Apple spared me from this piece of **** since a) my phone was almost a year on the market and b) they couldn’t roll out the software on 75% of the globe.
 
...but the result of a sports match being announced before the match has taken place might be news - and might be detrimental to the reputation of the news agency to which it was falsely attributed.
It happens outside of AI, when an entity, such as the NYT, misreports something. With AI it’s a distinct possibility of misreporting. You have the good with the bad.
 
It happens outside of AI, when an entity, such as the NYT, misreports something.
...which would be very embarrassing for NYT and put a significant ding in their reputation... but it would be firmly NYTs fault and they'd deserve to eat humble pie.

But what we have here is not Apple misreporting something (which would be their problem) but Apple misattributing their mistake to the BBC.
 
...which would be very embarrassing for NYT and put a significant ding in their reputation... but it would be firmly NYTs fault and they'd deserve to eat humble pie.
That stuff happens and I’m guessing any reporting outlet has had it happen to them. In this brave new world it’s AI.
But what we have here is not Apple misreporting something (which would be their problem) but Apple misattributing their mistake to the BBC.
It’s still misreporting. I guess we could debate the severity of it. Do t know how a correction could be applied though.
 
No media outlet pushes out more fake news than the BBC in the UK....
Half the news on the BBC is made up anyways
It's cute that the BBC thinks it and other legacy media are still credible trusted news sources
Talk about misinformation; there's far far worse outlets like GBeebies, TalkTV or the 'red top' UK papers than the BBC.
Saying that, it no surprise that folk believe drivel like that when it's the same folk that get their news from highly questionable social media accounts and Musk and his minions 🤣
 
It’s still misreporting. I guess we could debate the severity of it.
It's a brand new source of "misreporting" at a level that doesn't even need to exist.

It's not as if large sums of money change hands on the basis of sports results, or that the idea that a result was decided before the match could cause trouble. Some of the other "misreportings" have potentially more serious consequences.

...and look back at the image in the article. It doesn't say "Apple Intelligence" it says "BBC News". This is all being done with a total disregard for consequences.
 
This is what it did for me when summarizing a response email to a job interview. Saved me the anxiety of wondering how the interview went.

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See Apple Maps - that launched in a half finished state and was widely mocked & ignored for years by the public, even though it was just as good/better than Google maps a couple of years later.
Apple maps is fine for directions when you're going from A to B. It's still absolutely destroyed by google maps for actually finding nearby places. If I put in a "curry house" or "drum lessons" or "live music" or something into google maps near where I am there's usually at least 3 times as many places listed by google.

I use Apple Maps to navigate as I prefer the UI, but if I'm out of town and want to find points of interest using google maps is a no-brainer, definitely in the UK at least. So it's definitely still not even close if you're trying to find places. Ironically they'd be better if they googled stuff in the background and displayed it on apple maps!
 
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It's a brand new source of "misreporting" at a level that doesn't even need to exist.

It's not as if large sums of money change hands on the basis of sports results, or that the idea that a result was decided before the match could cause trouble. Some of the other "misreportings" have potentially more serious consequences.

...and look back at the image in the article. It doesn't say "Apple Intelligence" it says "BBC News". This is all being done with a total disregard for consequences
People have been fired over misreporting. That’s bad consequences. For example; Dan Rather. Did it on live TV as well.

Here it’s on an iPhone summary screen and only if you have apple Intelligence enabled.

This is the brave new world of AI. We as a society will have to figure out how to deal with this. But sure, this minor thing be raised to the level of an incendiary explosion.
 
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