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iOS Notification Summaries Lost in Translation? How to Turn Them Off
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Yeah, it's more for when you get a bunch of them. It'll summarize all your notifications into one. For example, the other day I had one from Teams that said something like "server down; people looking into it; server back up". I didn't have to read all 10+ notifications I had.
We can also still tap the summary and read each individual notification, just as before, in case the summary doesn't make sense...which is why I leave it on, maybe I'll eventually get something funny as some of these.
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You're right. Apple no longer seems to be buoyed by the design team but by the chip team. Their chips are outstanding. But I'm glad someone else pointed out the outdated camera hardware. Seems like a lot of people don't care about that as much as I thought. Was really hoping to see Sony's IMX903 sensor this year but Apple kept the same sensor they have been using for a third year in a row. Chinese phones like Oppo, Xiaomi and others have been using 1" sensors for several years now and the images look amazing.
Very little indeed is particularly critical in my life that a summary is going to derail, so I'm right there with those folks who are keeping it turned on for now solely for the amusement factor. That said... I actually do take some issue with this entire movement being labeled as "artificial intelligence." It's really just... well, not.
We all have images in our heads from science fiction about what AI is supposed to look like, and our current technology level is not remotely anything like Data from Star Trek TNG -- and never will be, with this approach. Heck, we're not even talking about just the conversational capabilities of HAL from 1968's 2001 A Space Odyssey; we still can't do that, Dave.
So in that regard, it feels to me very much like an entire industry is just foisting their latest weird experiments on an eager customer base, but using deceptive marketing to fool us into believing that the fantasies we've been waiting for since time immemorial have finally arrived on our doorsteps... while the sad reality is, they may well never materialize.
We all have images in our heads from science fiction about what AI is supposed to look like, and our current technology level is not remotely anything like Data from Star Trek TNG -- and never will be, with this approach. Heck, we're not even talking about just the conversational capabilities of HAL from 1968's 2001 A Space Odyssey; we still can't do that, Dave.
So in that regard, it feels to me very much like an entire industry is just foisting their latest weird experiments on an eager customer base, but using deceptive marketing to fool us into believing that the fantasies we've been waiting for since time immemorial have finally arrived on our doorsteps... while the sad reality is, they may well never materialize.
There was Home Screen editing improvements, and RCS. Both of which also turned out to be disappointments and not as widely available as expected.
Wow good link. I didn't know Cnet was good again. That's a name I've not heard in a long time. I thought they died in an acquisition.
And if AI tells you burning fossil fuel causes global warming, will you believe that?
Yep, what the snake-oil salesmen are currently trying to over-excitedly flog to the public isn't really all that much "cleverer" than that now decades-old Eliza program (much more complex, yes, but cleverer, no), but with a much larger corpus of words to rummage around in. I don't doubt that eventually we will develop something which will have some utility (and reliability), but I'm not convinced that the current fad-like approach of just inhaling words and then spewing back out some words that seem to appear in proximity to each other is really going to produce the best results, and this very much seems to be evidence of that.
I have "Summarize Previews" disabled in MacOS but it's not disabled in Messages. Does it also have to be turned off on iPhone to affect MacOS?
These summaries are absolutely ridiculous and counter productive.
These summaries are absolutely ridiculous and counter productive.