Chasing the generative AI trend is disappointing. You can tell when text has been generated by ChatGPT--it has a very generic, formulaic tone. The last thing I wanted was a conversational Siri.
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All this talk about AI and how it can make our lives easier is really making me feel old in the same way that our parents and grandparents generations felt about the emergence of technology over their lives.
I know I should embrace it but I'm more intimidated by it than anything else.
I'm also concerned about its effects in my job field. It might not replace me right now, but at the rate it is improving, it very well could replace the need for someone like me in my position in the near future.
All this stress lately, no wonder I've developed psoriasis in the past year. 😔
I know I should embrace it but I'm more intimidated by it than anything else.
I'm also concerned about its effects in my job field. It might not replace me right now, but at the rate it is improving, it very well could replace the need for someone like me in my position in the near future.
All this stress lately, no wonder I've developed psoriasis in the past year. 😔
Try a male voice, it might be a better listener.
AI applications are crazy. Waiting for some company to AI my toilet paper.
wait!...on second thought...I'm looking for investors to invest in my new Siri-AI powered Bidet company!
wait!...on second thought...I'm looking for investors to invest in my new Siri-AI powered Bidet company!
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Add all the AI features you want, Apple. Just make sure I can turn all of them off.
it's incredible how much time, effort and money Apple has lost following metaverse dreams instead of investing in AI features
Apple is poised to unveil an auto-summarization feature for notifications as part of a series of new artificial intelligence features in iOS 18, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
In today's edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman provided more detail about what to expect from Apple's first major move into generative AI at its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference:
Gurman added that while Apple will mainly rely on on-device processing to support its AI features, it will also deliver them via the cloud in data centers that contain high-end Apple silicon chips designed for the Mac. He also noted that a ChatGPT-like chatbot will be noticeably absent from Apple's upcoming AI features. Apple executives are said to have admitted that they're "playing catch-up" internally.
Apple's inaugural push into AI is widely expected to be revealed as part of previews of its next-generation software updates at WWDC, which begins on June 10.
Article Link: iOS 18 to Use AI to Summarize Notifications, Add to Calendar, and More
Why use AI to read email when you can just delete them with a button?
“Proactive” means that it activates on its own instead of having to be explicitly invoked. Which means that if you don’t want that automatic activation, you’ll have to be able to turn it off.
I'm guessing because they have just farmed this stuff out at the last minute and have not developed anything to run locally, and their "partners" either don't have the time to do it or aren't interested in doing it?
Whatever the case, they have shot themselves in the foot by trumpeting this as their next big thing, and it looks like it is going to be seriously underwhelming at best. I'm guessing a Siri that is very marginally better (hardly difficult) and a few features like summarising emails - big wow!
All they have done by going on about this stuff is draw attention to how far behind they are, and also that they have nothing much else to market at this stage. I imagine there are plenty of red faces around the boardroom. If not, there should be.
I believe the issue was that they could not use Siri commands to play locally stored music. You may add music to the Apple Music library but only in “Apple approved” formats, using other apps sandboxes the files and makes them inaccessible to Siri or other use cases where you may want to access the device’s native music library.
It seems as if this is something that really should be processed locally on-device but isn’t, for whatever reason. I cannot use Siri to play music either but in my case it’s because Apple forces me to sandbox my music files into 3rd party applications
When will the world learn the difference between "AI" and "ML".
"Summarize" is not "artificial intelligence."
"Summarize" is not "artificial intelligence."
That is one definition. Things like when you pull the top bar down and there's a set of apps presented that you are know to use that time of the day is also a form of proactiveness.
I love the level of hairsplitting MR users go through.
Then don’t use it, nobody is forcing you. You’ll be in the minority though, not that it matters.
It seems too little too late. They really are playing catch up. Too much time and resource wasted on pointless failed projects like the Vision Pro thingy or Apple car, and they missed train on the actually transformative technology that is changing the world.
LLMs are very complex heavy models. You definitely can’t run them on tiny low powered processors such as M1 or similar. They might be able to run tiny models reduced to the point where they are small enough to run locally, but the full models will need a server for the foreseeable future.
Can we opt out of the AI "enhancements" ?
Apple is poised to unveil an auto-summarization feature for notifications as part of a series of new artificial intelligence features in iOS 18, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
In today's edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman provided more detail about what to expect from Apple's first major move into generative AI at its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference:
Gurman added that while Apple will mainly rely on on-device processing to support its AI features, it will also deliver them via the cloud in data centers that contain high-end Apple silicon chips designed for the Mac. He also noted that a ChatGPT-like chatbot will be noticeably absent from Apple's upcoming AI features. Apple executives are said to have admitted that they're "playing catch-up" internally.
Apple's inaugural push into AI is widely expected to be revealed as part of previews of its next-generation software updates at WWDC, which begins on June 10.
Article Link: iOS 18 to Use AI to Summarize Notifications, Add to Calendar, and More