I don't use Instagram, but I do use Faceache now and again, what Ai stuff is on there?
As for Ai in general, not that interested to be honest, i use my echo dots to turn things on and off and to play music and that is about it.
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As for Ai in general, not that interested to be honest, i use my echo dots to turn things on and off and to play music and that is about it.
Toss a new battery in you're not gaining anything by upgrading to a newer iPhone
People don't appreciate that basic features like the on-screen keyboard are powered by AI.
When typing "bana", the keyboard predicts "n" as the next most likely target, so makes its tap target larger than surrounding keys. You can't see it, but it's happening.
Auto-suggestion and auto-correct are not just dictionary lookups, but tied into language models on-device.
That's why LLMs (Large Language Models) are distinct because they are a much larger that those used by our keyboards.
When typing "bana", the keyboard predicts "n" as the next most likely target, so makes its tap target larger than surrounding keys. You can't see it, but it's happening.
Auto-suggestion and auto-correct are not just dictionary lookups, but tied into language models on-device.
That's why LLMs (Large Language Models) are distinct because they are a much larger that those used by our keyboards.
Until it replaces you at your job, and then see how you feel.
that is the problem with this AI stuff, people are going to lose jobs and to be honest, I really don't want to talk to a machine when I have a problem with my broadband or any other service.
I have an Android phone and as soon as Gemini came onto it, I disabled it.
Based on how long I've been waiting for Siri to mature, I won't hold my breath.
Did you think Apple had been doing well for 10 years with Siri?
Funny enough I take the opposite position- that automation and AI are too narrowly focused to be a threat. At least short term. This whole field is slowing dramatically until the next major iteration, whenever that is. Could be a year, could be 5, we just don't know
I have seen this Rewrite stuff on a few services, and it is too Americanised and uses words that would not be used in the U.K.
This is funny to me, there's always some Siri stanning and for the life of me I can't understand why unless Apple is astroturfing here
I think it serves me well, emphasis me. And has much more privacy than the other “smart assistants”.
But nothing except: what is the weather and what time is it? OMG 10 years of machine learning. If you are happy, then ok. I am not happy.
I think everyone will have a different risk/reward scale for what they are willing to put up with in terms of limiting factors and performance vs benefits to privacy. I'm starting to wonder if it can be done well, or competitively well enough, within that framework or if Apple will have to reconsider their privacy stance (which is mostly performative and marketspeak anyway). It may come down to Apple architecting things that more resemble a Google or Facebook approach with an asterisk of "trust me bro."
They are certainly struggling and so far behind right now that I wonder how long it would take for them to be good enough in this field, and whether they can pivot institutionally to this new way of thinking about and making software. The old way is engrained in the company and I expect the old guard to put up quite the fight on the way out the door
Apple Intelligence opinions so far:
In short I don’t think the focus is in the right place here.
- The summaries are useless, they are mediocre 99% of the time but the 1% they’re downright horrifying. The BBC headline was bad, had one yesterday that changed “there’s a missing child” to “we found the missing child”, plus a few orders summary emails where it summarized my $10 purchase as a $2,000 purchase, more than once…
- Playground is fun but not useful
- Genmoji has yet to produce a single useful thing
- The writing tools are ok
- Siri does seem smarter
- Mail categories made it so I can’t see more than a few emails and couldn’t find anything I needed
- I can use 10% of my battery playing a podcast for 30 minutes. I can only assume it’s AIing constantly in the background. My iPhone 13 Pro on 17 got ok battery life. It got worse on 18. My brand new phone on 18 was worse than the 13 and that’s before the AI stuff got added. Editing this to add that my wife also upgraded and has not even opted into Apple Intelligence and has the same battery life concerns so maybe I’m wrong there
In short I don’t think the focus is in the right place here.
I actually used it the other day to write a "professional" email after receiving an interview opportunity to a company, I found it quite helpful
The settings is a mess, iOS is bascially Android at this point.
The writing tools is the best part but they made them too hard to get to, I bet most don't even know they are there.
I pay for a Grammarly premium account and was hoping Apple AI could replace that. Nope. Apple AI has zero features that I use. Summarisation is off, the image playground is never used, and the photo stuff is not good compared to the competition.
Apple is typically very good at disrupting a workflow that is already in place with its own apps/workflows, but not this time. Being later than the rest is okay if the product or feature is killer.
Cleft Notes is by far my favourite AI app, I use it across all my apple devices and it is wonderfully simple and powerful and does require me to do anything extra to change how I do something.
Apple is typically very good at disrupting a workflow that is already in place with its own apps/workflows, but not this time. Being later than the rest is okay if the product or feature is killer.
Cleft Notes is by far my favourite AI app, I use it across all my apple devices and it is wonderfully simple and powerful and does require me to do anything extra to change how I do something.
Arguably worse. Its a pale imitation that misses big on what Android does well.
In fact, grammarly is baked into my Android keyboard. I'm picking up the Pixel or Galaxy a lot more than my 16 PM most days
AI for consumers is 95% pointless gimmicks, driven almost entirely by tech industry marking department FOMO.
I cannot wait for the hype to burn out, then perhaps the likes of Apple will go back to trying to develop good quality interfaces for people who actually want to use their devices to do stuff themselves.
I cannot wait for the hype to burn out, then perhaps the likes of Apple will go back to trying to develop good quality interfaces for people who actually want to use their devices to do stuff themselves.
I was most excited for the notification summaries but they are terrible. It provides summaries that are inaccurate or, at best, confusing.
Perhaps Apple should have done a survey before sinking millions into a feature no one is interested in.
Yes. I question my sanity and level of tech-savvy whenever I go into the settings app on both iOS and MacOS lately.
I'll level the same argument on their tens-of-billions car project. Maybe without that direction they'd have been further along with LLM integration
I was watching the Chiefs-Browns game yesterday, and during halftime, there was a short advert for Siri. Something along the lines of "If you just put some snacks in the oven, tell Siri to set a fifteen-minute timer."
If a sizable number of iPhone users are still struggling to use Siri just for something so simple, Apple Intelligence is done. Hey Siri, forget the timer; it's already cooked.
If a sizable number of iPhone users are still struggling to use Siri just for something so simple, Apple Intelligence is done. Hey Siri, forget the timer; it's already cooked.