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Shortcuts Creators Debut Sky, an AI Helper That Understands Everything on Your Mac's Screen
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Sounds like a great recipe for privacy disaster - I’d rather have Clippy back.
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I don't need to destroy the planet to do that.
I don't need to destroy the planet to do that.
But it's only being left behind if you're actually missing out on something that would definitely have been useful to you had you given it a chance. For example, are people who prefer sitting down and reading physical books being left behind by the proliferation of audio books?
Regarding the current trend of "All AI Everything", I think huge part of the challenge facing the wide adoption of these new AI tools is that so many of them feel like technologies in search of broad, easily-monetizable use case when their strengths are best suited almost exclusively to the enterprise world and office professionals. Most people simply don't need a tool to write emails for them, or to text their friends on any sort of regular basis, and certainly not to the extent that they would pay a subscription for that.
People do seem to think that Apple are above data mining and collection for some reason (well, the reason is known, it's fantastic marketing). While Apple are guided by the current leadership there's no coming back from the stupidity and hubris that is their current AI offering.
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I saw the movie, and everything turns out OK. I think.
It is. I mean, it's always something. But I'd want an artificial assistant I can trust completely.
"So we're making an AI assistant for the Mac, but we'd really like to brand it and style the logo after a defunct airline from yesteryear."
Designer: "Say no more."
Designer: "Say no more."
Looks great. I am. shocked they used sky though... and with such a terrible logo..
Sky is a huge media Network in United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy... It's owned by Fox and they are litigious as hell.
Sky is a huge media Network in United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy... It's owned by Fox and they are litigious as hell.
Yeah…it’s not like we’re in that timeline anyway? Right….right ???
It was originally called Workflow but was called Shortcuts after Apple acquired/purchased it and was featured during the 2018 event, can't remember whether it was in WWDC or iPhone event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcuts_(Apple)
It was announced during iPhone XR, XS, XS Max event at 52:35
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcuts_(Apple)
It was announced during iPhone XR, XS, XS Max event at 52:35
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I’m not interested in anything AI unless they begin their pitch with their privacy policy. No mention of that here, not interested.
Yesterday I read AI agents can “bleed” private data such as this into their training models 🫠
So if Apple bought the Shortcuts app they should perhaps buy this, as it sounds rather interesting. I thought I read Apple acquired the company, but apparently it was only the app. Apple might want to buy up as much AI as possible.
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Sky will be acquired by Apple and renamed “Skiri” …
I don’t understand everything that’s happening on my Mac’s screen. So, pretty sure I’m not gonna just let an AI run rampant through everything.
This is what Shortcuts should be. “I want this to do this” etc. However, I cannot see how someone not technically minded can figure out how to use Shortcuts and make it work I’m no Luddite, but I gave up on Shortcuts as whatever I made didn’t work, didn’t work the way I want it to, or don’t know what Shortcuts would be useful for me
Yep, came here to say this. Start the countdown clock on “From time to time, Apple buys smaller technology companies…”
We don’t even need to communicate with each other anymore. Our AI Agents can do it all for us! Great world we live in, saves so much time. In reality, I see and am working on how these can be great for customer service but like most I don’t want it running on my Mac and don’t trust anyone, especially Apple, with my privacy. To me the privacy crap Apple has marketed is just marketing. They have had just as bad of reputation outsourcing data as other big tech companies.
Which remains a superior name for such a system.
Still have to explain to people it's not a shortcut on the desktop (except when you create a shortcut on the desktop to run a Shortcut published by the Shortcuts App) and it's not cheating at anything (it's defining a series of procedures to accomplish a task, which only sometimes feels like cheating).
And then they already had the Automator brand name sitting right there... completely unchanged from when it was introduced in 2005.