Everything these days is designed to "float unobtrusively over what you're doing" so we get popups on our popups after our popups over other popups pop up so Pops can pop up while he pops up in case he hasn't seen any pop ups while watching the other pop ups animating their pop ups.
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Shortcuts Creators Debut Sky, an AI Helper That Understands Everything on Your Mac's Screen
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Everything these days is designed to "float unobtrusively over what you're doing" so we get popups on our popups after our popups over other popups pop up so Pops can pop up while he pops up in case he hasn't seen any pop ups while watching the other pop ups animating their pop ups.
“sky network” is too clunky—how about we just call it “skynet” for short?
No thank you. I don't' want anything "hovering over my screen seeing everything I'm doing".
I know, I am probably too old for this new tech wave, but I find it creepy to allow whatever ai app to go through my screen/mails/other stuff.. probably will lead to me being unemployed in few years/months, as ai is according to “all” new necessity for anything
Computers are extension of Self.
Self send the email to>
Self send URL to Xperson>
Self Open said web browser to X-pages.
About time!
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Aw privacy always come up as you only think you have clothes on while sitting there!
They know more about you than you know about you.
You been spied on for how many years now on the internet?>
Emperor has no Clothes.
Self send the email to>
Self send URL to Xperson>
Self Open said web browser to X-pages.
About time!
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Aw privacy always come up as you only think you have clothes on while sitting there!
They know more about you than you know about you.
You been spied on for how many years now on the internet?>
Emperor has no Clothes.
It‘s right there in the article? Works with GPT and Claude, which have no free API access.
So you‘re essentially double paying for this app: for one you need to pay the API pricing of your choice and two, you pay the Sky app subscription.
on topic: Apple‘s next purchase? They need to fix their on screen awareness.
Not a good example. Although it is better for someone’s eyes to listen to audiobooks, it’s not the same as reading. Left behind would maybe be the guy who praises his physical books like they were godgiven while demonizing e-readers.
I use open ai a lot when looking for information or have it write some code and afaik that’s what most people do and also what most use the internet for. I never needed it to write ann email for me.
Anyway, maybe read the article again. It’s not just about writing some emails or texting friends FOR you.
We are just at the beginning of what AI will be useful for.
It's still actually not clear. Sky could include API costs into their subscription pricing rather than having users subscribe separately and bring their own API keys to plug in.
Well it's changed by having more extensibility over time. Technically it doesn't do that much exciting, it's simple code blocks right? I wish they had a node based editor for this stuff.
This is awesome. Game changing.
Can't wait. Great idea! For those expressing privacy concerns here, it is easy solvable with a ON/OFF switch, so you can type your credit card number when needed (or whatever) with no fear.
It will surely be part of macOS in the future.
Can't wait. Great idea! For those expressing privacy concerns here, it is easy solvable with a ON/OFF switch, so you can type your credit card number when needed (or whatever) with no fear.
It will surely be part of macOS in the future.
with all this sticky AI popping up everywhere not only privacy is an issue. We’re storming at a wall called electricity crisis.
Yep. Why couldn’t they have, after all these years, just made Siri and Automator work magically together ? Or since they had to purchase Siri to get a local chatbot and had to purchase Workflow, now renamed, Shortcuts, to have something better, I guess, than Automator, then why haven’t they worked on integrating Siri into Shortcuts to make something like Sky….which they’re probably going to to buy anyway?
May be this is the plan. The company already made a lot of money, selling Shortcuts to Apple. Why not this one, too? With everyone talking about "agentic AI", such a thing is currently missing in Apple's vision of Apple Intelligence.
I'm not sure handing control of our personal computers to AI is a good idea, as it seems unlikely to end well.
Next Part is to network the Sky AIs so that they can collaborate.. Let's call it SkyNet.. Arnold? are you there.
It is incredibly deep for something that Apple officially backs - it's at odds with how shallow a lot of their software services and features are.
It is definitely not straight forward to create shortcuts and AI isn't very good at helping with them as it's not raw code and they don't appear to have lots of data on them - so it can guide and help a little but it's often wrong about how to get something working.
I've built quite a few lately though - today I made a shortcut where I highlight a bunch of numbers right click and tap "sum" and it'll either output the total to the document i'm in or copy it to the clipboard so I can paste it somewhere - quite handy when i'm not using a spreadsheet app with some numbers.
But really it should now be trained into Apple's LLM so there's a text box at the top, you tell it what you want to do and it builds the shortcut for you (if it's possible and tells you if it isn't and why) - similar to how it works with IFTTT.