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WWDC 2024 Apple Event Live Keynote Coverage: iOS 18, Apple's AI Push, and More
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next time I will have AI watch WWDC and sum it up for me.
Rofl, that’s the same talk about the iPhone. iPhone 16 will be the same as 15, 14,13,12.
It’s so boring because all this has been shown by other companies long before.
For me it was a very uninspiring keynote with a big “ME TOO” on it.
Still thinking apple intelligence that has to prompt you to use ChatGPT for practically everything is funny.
Interesting as I’m still not seeing it. Be right back shows on beta.apple.com
I watched this Apple show. Maybe it's me but I found it cluttered with too much information in too little time.
And concerning all this AI stuff, it seems to me that Apple is making it so you present yourself in a manner that Apple, in all its wisdom, believes you would want to have others perceive you.
Apple's AI is person centered rather than topic centered - and I don't like it.
And concerning all this AI stuff, it seems to me that Apple is making it so you present yourself in a manner that Apple, in all its wisdom, believes you would want to have others perceive you.
Apple's AI is person centered rather than topic centered - and I don't like it.
I've just begun watching the keynote. So far, they're trying to shove "this", "that", skydiving, and TV+ in my face. I'm not offended, but I'm also not impressed. The skydiving video was kind of lame, which makes me question their judgment in TV matters. Plus, I don't have TV, so they'd have to really sell me on it more than anybody who has tried in the last 12-14 years.
All television is boring. Apple Vision sounds interesting, even for productivity or games. If I can have a 72" monitor without having a 72" monitor, that would be kind of nice. I just don't want to spent $4500 for the privilege, lol! I'll wait and see on that one.
Hey, can somebody get that dude to come down off the roof? He's casting a shadow on the solar panels!
Man, we've spent a lot of time on the home screen. I guess it's okay. I still want to know how they're going to fix Siri.
"In Apple Related News today, an Amazon delivery driver was crushed by the garage door at the home of an Apple executive. The door was activated during Craig Federini's presentation during the WWDC keynote address."
I like that satellite messages feature. Now there's no reason for me not to go on that hiking trip to Reykjavik!
Still waiting to hear about Siri. I use her everyday and she has been very bad for years now.
All television is boring. Apple Vision sounds interesting, even for productivity or games. If I can have a 72" monitor without having a 72" monitor, that would be kind of nice. I just don't want to spent $4500 for the privilege, lol! I'll wait and see on that one.
Hey, can somebody get that dude to come down off the roof? He's casting a shadow on the solar panels!
Man, we've spent a lot of time on the home screen. I guess it's okay. I still want to know how they're going to fix Siri.
"In Apple Related News today, an Amazon delivery driver was crushed by the garage door at the home of an Apple executive. The door was activated during Craig Federini's presentation during the WWDC keynote address."
I like that satellite messages feature. Now there's no reason for me not to go on that hiking trip to Reykjavik!
Still waiting to hear about Siri. I use her everyday and she has been very bad for years now.
As far as I have understood, and except the early possibility to use ChatGTP, without any real privacy!, "Apple Intelligence" by itself should not come before next year. Will it be a "super powered Siri" ? We will have to wait.
Some features to be expected with Apple Intelligence are, and some not very far of was somehow "promised" a long time ago with the introduction of Siri, is to integrate the data available in iOS or MacOS applications to deduce, highlight or propose some filters or actions.
The only problem with this approach is that if you don't use Apple devices 24h a days for all your activities, online interactions, music and more, the "internal AI" will be based on incomplete informations...
I observed this point with my Apple Watch since many years : I am retired, and when I am at home, I don't usually wear my watch. I wear it when I am going out, or during travel or vacation . Recently, I travelled 1 week to Scotland, and I was wearing my watch almost all the time. I had therefore at the end of my travel a notification that my rest heath rate had decreased, since it has been since a long time that I had not used my watch during night !
Imagine now that you want to ask to "Apple intelligence" , as the exemple shown during the keynote, at what time your mother will arrive at the airport, if your mother is not in your address book, and or or if the email used to send you the flight information were not coming from your mother's email ?
It is nice to see that it should be working in the future (although not yet functional) , as it was nice to see what was promised a long time ago by Siri.
In short : in app information can be incomplete and any analysis of these data can lead to bad proposition/conclusion by "Apple Intelligence" !
Some features to be expected with Apple Intelligence are, and some not very far of was somehow "promised" a long time ago with the introduction of Siri, is to integrate the data available in iOS or MacOS applications to deduce, highlight or propose some filters or actions.
The only problem with this approach is that if you don't use Apple devices 24h a days for all your activities, online interactions, music and more, the "internal AI" will be based on incomplete informations...
I observed this point with my Apple Watch since many years : I am retired, and when I am at home, I don't usually wear my watch. I wear it when I am going out, or during travel or vacation . Recently, I travelled 1 week to Scotland, and I was wearing my watch almost all the time. I had therefore at the end of my travel a notification that my rest heath rate had decreased, since it has been since a long time that I had not used my watch during night !
Imagine now that you want to ask to "Apple intelligence" , as the exemple shown during the keynote, at what time your mother will arrive at the airport, if your mother is not in your address book, and or or if the email used to send you the flight information were not coming from your mother's email ?
It is nice to see that it should be working in the future (although not yet functional) , as it was nice to see what was promised a long time ago by Siri.
In short : in app information can be incomplete and any analysis of these data can lead to bad proposition/conclusion by "Apple Intelligence" !
Yes, Apple Intelligence is behind the curve as you note. But, I'm not concerned with a slower pace of integration of "Apple Intelligence" or generative AI into apps. It will take time to figure out how, say, a calendar app can take proper advantage of such integration. You would not want the kinds of quick integration that allowed general queries such as "Write a story about a squirrel and a walnut" in LLM-driven customer service chat apps.
I'm more critical of licensing and integrating ChatGPT into Siri the way they have done it. It is weak tea, a me-too, and a lame attempt to freeze a market that caught Apple execs asleep at the wheel. As the rumor (from MacRumors, I believe) has it, Federighi didn't have a clue about LLMs until he played with one over Christmas vacation? That should be horribly embarrassing for Apple since the tech industry has been working on integrating LLMs for the last couple of years.
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Apple Intelligence helps you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly. All while setting a brand-new standard for privacy in AI.
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don't even need to bother the AI to know that the headline feature is new emojis /s
The drop in stock almost always occurs followed quickly by a rebound and maybe even higher. I expected it and was confident all was normal when it happened.
I think that person-centered AI can be very useful. The trick is what context (both personal and topic-wise) is brought to bear.
The point you bring up that is worthy of much thoughtful reflection is contained in the phrase "in a manner that Apple, in all its wisdom, believes you would want to have others perceive you." Anyone who has played with generative AI knows that it is biased by its source material. What will Apple's source material be? Will Apple present you as you are or as Apple would like an Apple employee to be? Can you be diverse (personally, politically, and intellectually) outside of some definition of acceptable diversity that Apple would like to enforce?
A test I have for search engines and AI is to query it about the second US-Iraq war. Back before Google used AI to tailor results, you could find lots of diverse information and perspectives with little effort. Today, it takes real work and very specific queries to get similar results. Tests I've done on ChatGPT 3, ChatGPT 4, LLama2, and LLama3 take a lot of work and querying to get them to break out of the Western political view of the war and admit certain undisputed facts. These systems are biased, dare I say influenced heavily, by source material that is dominated by specific viewpoints (read propaganda, for all intents and purposes). This is an inherent aspect of humans and LLMs.
some people on this forum can differentiate between quality updates with rich features and updates just for the sake of updates with nothing innovative.
they did announce Apple cloud computing as well. Worst case they could have added it to iCloud subscriptions For old devices. You’d feel the pain of waiting for responses hard enough to still offer the higher speed on device. Besides they are probably royaly going to f people anyway when we see the early m4 for iPad Pro. Whatever is happening Next will require more neural engin magic to get you to drop another 1000€.
A flop that made them over a billion being released just in one marked. Less billions than alegetly expected, yet still over a billion. Most people here would be ok having this kind of flop with what essentially has been a early access product so far.