That's EXACTLY why I choose to use an iPhone 5 with iOS 6. In today's day and age, this is my "dumb" phone. It does everything I need, nothing I don't need.
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That's EXACTLY why I choose to use an iPhone 5 with iOS 6. In today's day and age, this is my "dumb" phone. It does everything I need, nothing I don't need.
It's really not good at it. People who know nothing about translating things get an approximation of a translation. The nuances are almost entirely unsuitable for professional use. In fact I know a professional translator who is getting a lot of business from massive screw ups that were done quickly and cheaply on a false promise. One problem caused a fairly large diplomatic incident.
As always, AI looks like it works if you have no idea what you are doing or don't care about the quality of the results.
Like the Magic Mouse?
I agree. They got caught really off guard and don’t have the leadership neither in software nor the ceo to actually do what it takes to catch up.
Let’s remember it’s been almost two years since open Ai revolutionized everything and apple hasn’t even started.
No like all of the original unibody Macbook line, original iPads, first ten iPhones, (Apple has done barely anything with it since), the Apple Watch (again barely changed since).
Do Apple currently have any industrial design staff? must be an easy job...
The gold miners are the ones investing in this stuff. The shovels and lodging are the companies and middlemen that let the investors pursue their dreams of striking it rich.
Oh please can we stop this.
AI is not a thing yet. The economic and business model doesn't make sense, none of the promises have materialised, all the businesses purely involved in it are in catastrophic failure stages. Even in professional circles it's a pretty hot pile of steaming garbage with everything from coverups, academic corruption. Even Microsoft who rolled it out in their own GitHub repos is in trouble as their own product keeps submitting unfixable garbage, but they keep pushing it because their lying CEO told everyone 30% of their code is written by it.
The only innovation is building a tool to make stupid people who don't know anything do stupid things faster and write layoffs off without the negative PR.
Note: used it to write a web page today because I couldn't be arsed and had to spend an hour fixing the crap it kicked out had a pile of bugs in it, it was incapable of fixing. Yesterday, I couldn't get it to draw me a calculator with the correct number of equals buttons.
A.I. is also good at helping students with their homework and in tutoring
Chegg lays off 22% of workforce as AI tools disrupt EdTech industry - Tech Startups
Chegg is laying off 248 employees—22% of its workforce—and shutting down its U.S. and Canada offices, becoming the latest victim of AI disruption. The move is part of a sweeping restructuring effort as students increasingly ditch traditional study platforms in favor of AI tools like ChatGPT. The...
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Chegg is laying off 248 employees — 22% of its workforce — and shutting down its U.S. and Canada offices, becoming the latest victim of AI disruption.
The move is part of a sweeping restructuring effort as students increasingly ditch traditional study platforms in favor of AI tools like ChatGPT.
The move is part of a larger cost-cutting effort to simplify operations and deal with what Chegg calls a fundamental shift in how students find academic help. More are skipping traditional platforms and going straight to free or low-cost AI tools that deliver instant answers.
Online education company Chegg sues Google, says AI is killing business
The company, once popular among students, said its “strategic” options could include a sale. Chegg blamed Google’s AI summaries for taking away traffic.
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A new lawsuit against Google alleges that the search giant’s artificial intelligence summaries have hurt online education company Chegg’s traffic and revenue so much that the company may not survive in its current form.
Chegg, which provides students with homework help and test answers, filed the suit against Google and parent company Alphabet this week in federal court. In its quarterly report released Monday, the company tied its recent financial struggles to AI-generated search summaries and claimed Google has “unjustly retained traffic” that once flowed to Chegg’s site.
It’s funny to me, watching these videos and realizing how amazing Steve Jobs truly was. Jony and Altman come across as so contrived, and the whole thing is so staged it’s almost comical. The video is well-produced, but the characters just aren’t anything special. Altman is a super nerd, and Jony thinks too highly of himself — that British accent adds a touch of arrogance, too.
Steve would never have done an announcement like this. He had a way of making things captivating, drawing the viewer in and building real excitement. None of that is present here.
Steve would never have done an announcement like this. He had a way of making things captivating, drawing the viewer in and building real excitement. None of that is present here.
i think your question/point is the most important aspect of this story.
i was thinking: for USD 6.5 billion what openAI is getting from this ?
the only answer is if you view it in terms of what is the cost to acqui-hire what (i think probably) is the best design/chip manufacturing/software team in the world.
so, the money exchanging hands is to simply take control of the best team of people working in this sphere. its the potential they as a whole represent.
this type of acquisition used to cost from 20 to a 100 million USD. now its shooting to 6.5 B.
as someone has pointed out in this thread, this probably points to a pinnacle of an ai bubble.
all that as it may be, i would like to mention a thing about the very cool announcement format of this acqui-hire.
this several minute film is actually a press release. but a very cool press release.
the best press releases in traditional format cant compare to this.
the productional value of this short film was unusually high.
it achieved everything for them: background to the acqui-hire, reason for it, potential of it, and creating a " warm fuzziness" about it.
all without anything more than a hint that there is some kind of actual physical device prototype in existence.
i have utmost respect and awe for ives and his team. none for altman.
i kind of think ives is in the harvest time of his remaining life. selling out to the highest bidder.
i wish he would have given the keys to his kingdom to a company other than io.
jony, if your listening, im disappointed.
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According to The Verge Ive said Rabbit and the Humane pin were poor products.
Jony Ive says Rabbit and Humane made bad products
Remember last year’s big AI gadgets?www.theverge.com
Well, d‘oh.
Both.
Professionally I lead proposal development for my company, so I do a lot of analyzing large PDFs to figure out if something is worth bidding on, and if it is, assembling a team to write the proposal. (Note that at work we use a paid AI model that does not train on corporate data.) We run potential opportunities through AI tools prior to a bid/no bid decision now - have it pull out requirements, deliverables, due dates, response requirements etc. The proposal analysis literally saves my company tens of thousands of dollars a year, we were previously outsourcing that to an outside contractor because it's so time consuming and we're a small business so every hour of non-client-billable work is a big tax on our profitability.
Note that for anything mission-critical we have someone review/spot check things. A lot of the time it is writing the "first draft" of a document based on our corporate experience write ups and previous proposals, and then proposal writers are going in to tweak/massage the language.
Here are some typical use cases (I've shared some of these on MacRumors before).
- Taking a problem statement from a potential client and some write ups of our experience to develop the first draft of a White Paper explaining how my company would approach solving the problem. This shaved a day or two off the completion timeline.
- "One voicing" proposal content (If you have four people writing different parts of a proposal you want it to sound like one person wrote it - things like making sure acronyms are only spelled out once, consistent use of Oxford comma, etc.)
- I find this particularly annoying and time consuming and would likely pay for AI for this alone.
- Running an accessibility check to ensure deliverables meet strict client requirements
- Review PDF request for proposals (RFP) to pull out contractually required deliverables and their due dates and build a schedule of deliverables in Excel (depending on the length layout of the proposal request this can take me a couple of hours, it does it in less than a minute or two).
- Turn above schedule of deliverables into Gantt chart
- Determining which staff resumes on file best line up to position descriptions in RFP; tailoring the resumes to address requirements
- Tailoring past performance narratives to better align to the requirements in RFP
- Perform competitive analysis to flag potential competitors or partners we may not have heard of
- Perform research on potential clients, review their social media feeds, news releases, etc. to pull out major initiatives and identify key themes that might appeal to them
- Grading proposal content against published evaluation factors; provided recommended areas for improvement
- Identifying weaknesses or risks in an approach to do work so I can proactively address them in the proposal
- Tailoring resumes / cover letters for specific position descriptions (Tell my boss sorry!)
- Recommend sunglasses based on my face structure
- Taking a selfie and generating photos with different sunglasses superimposed on my face
- Analyzing whether or not applying to a job was a good use of my time (review my resume, position description, what you know about me and determine whether or not I have a decent shot - again, sorry boss!)
- Writing step by step instructions for my mother-in-law for disabling her current SIM card's data and activating an eSIM card's data while she was traveling internationally.
- Review code for a personal project (I don't code for work) to determine why I was getting an error message
- Got me a good banana smoothie recipe
- Reviewing my Mac's crash logs to determine what was causing a crash
- Calculate calories and macronutrients in a meal based off of list of ingredients for use in meal tracking
A.I. is also good at helping students with their homework and in tutoring
Chegg lays off 22% of workforce as AI tools disrupt EdTech industry - Tech Startups
Chegg is laying off 248 employees—22% of its workforce—and shutting down its U.S. and Canada offices, becoming the latest victim of AI disruption. The move is part of a sweeping restructuring effort as students increasingly ditch traditional study platforms in favor of AI tools like ChatGPT. The...
Chegg is laying off 248 employees — 22% of its workforce — and shutting down its U.S. and Canada offices, becoming the latest victim of AI disruption.
The move is part of a sweeping restructuring effort as students increasingly ditch traditional study platforms in favor of AI tools like ChatGPT.
The move is part of a larger cost-cutting effort to simplify operations and deal with what Chegg calls a fundamental shift in how students find academic help. More are skipping traditional platforms and going straight to free or low-cost AI tools that deliver instant answers.
Online education company Chegg sues Google, says AI is killing business
The company, once popular among students, said its “strategic” options could include a sale. Chegg blamed Google’s AI summaries for taking away traffic.
A new lawsuit against Google alleges that the search giant’s artificial intelligence summaries have hurt online education company Chegg’s traffic and revenue so much that the company may not survive in its current form.
Chegg, which provides students with homework help and test answers, filed the suit against Google and parent company Alphabet this week in federal court. In its quarterly report released Monday, the company tied its recent financial struggles to AI-generated search summaries and claimed Google has “unjustly retained traffic” that once flowed to Chegg’s site.
This is a little wrong.
Some of my life is in academic circles. What it has done is crush any growth driven EdTech organisation market capital. That is not the same as helping students with their homework and tutoring.
It regularly gets things horrifically wrong and I spent some of my time correcting complete piles of head scratching level stuff from students. It does some superficial stuff really well but a good tutor it is not. It goes completely off the flipping rails. And I mean invents its own solutions which don't make sense. It actually has no conceptual understanding of some simple things either because you're getting a statistically probable answer.
Good example
That's a simple problem. The answer is completely wrong. The method is coco bananas.
Now try something simple in a technical or educational specialism, say like applying De Moivre's theorem to an abstract problem and see where it gets you. Coo coo kachoo ***** comes flying out.
It's imperative that your teacher doesn't lie to you confidently and knows what it's talking about. This does not.
Very likely. Though at this point it is too early to tell who the disruptor will be. Ive has an impressive portfolio, but while he has made some great products, IMO he has been a bit stuck in the same mold since his original hit designs. Maybe he just needs a blank slate and will come up with something new & fresh.
But one thing is for sure, Apple is at risk here and I'm not really sure they have any saving grace, the company is just too large, and has strayed far away from its old "operates like a startup" days. More nimble, newer companies that have much less to lose will have a pretty big shot to build the next product that supplants the smartphone.
Definitely Ive's wet dream: devices that can look as sculpted and futuristic and minimal as he wants, without all the fussy problems of physical controls -- since you'll just be talking at them or they'll be surveilling your microexpressions or some other such dystopian crap.
I'm just an armchair observer here, but IMO Ive's best work was done with the tension of Steve Jobs keeping him in check and advocating for actual usability. Once Jobs was gone, he ran amok and we ended up with **** like zero-travel butterfly keyboards and laptops with one port.
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I get people focusing on the money and the hype skepticism but there is some huge news here outside of Ive: Tang Tan, Scott Cannon, and Evans Hankey all going to OpenAI is massive. Hankey was the head of hardware design at Apple for a few years after Ive left (and she worked with him on the design team for years) and Tang Tan was the Design Chief for iPhone and Apple Watch and also worked on the team for years. Really important to underscore the talent that is beyond Ive here.
By doing their homework for them?A.I. is also good at helping students with their homework and in tutoring
Chegg lays off 22% of workforce as AI tools disrupt EdTech industry - Tech Startups
Chegg is laying off 248 employees—22% of its workforce—and shutting down its U.S. and Canada offices, becoming the latest victim of AI disruption. The move is part of a sweeping restructuring effort as students increasingly ditch traditional study platforms in favor of AI tools like ChatGPT. The...
Chegg is laying off 248 employees — 22% of its workforce — and shutting down its U.S. and Canada offices, becoming the latest victim of AI disruption.
The move is part of a sweeping restructuring effort as students increasingly ditch traditional study platforms in favor of AI tools like ChatGPT.
The move is part of a larger cost-cutting effort to simplify operations and deal with what Chegg calls a fundamental shift in how students find academic help. More are skipping traditional platforms and going straight to free or low-cost AI tools that deliver instant answers.
Online education company Chegg sues Google, says AI is killing business
The company, once popular among students, said its “strategic” options could include a sale. Chegg blamed Google’s AI summaries for taking away traffic.
A new lawsuit against Google alleges that the search giant’s artificial intelligence summaries have hurt online education company Chegg’s traffic and revenue so much that the company may not survive in its current form.
Chegg, which provides students with homework help and test answers, filed the suit against Google and parent company Alphabet this week in federal court. In its quarterly report released Monday, the company tied its recent financial struggles to AI-generated search summaries and claimed Google has “unjustly retained traffic” that once flowed to Chegg’s site.