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WWDC 2024 Apple Event Live Keynote Coverage: iOS 18, Apple's AI Push, and More

CloudChief said:
Linguists are going to have a field day researching how LLM usage is affecting language. Imagine what will happen when what we are reading is partly generated by AI.
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what do you mean that Linguists are going to be really confused?
 
KennyJr said:
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.
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Yep way too fast and not showing how that feature works and why it so awesome.
 
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We always said hell would probably freeze over before iPad got a calculator app, and now its getting one.

Looks like Apple glanced out the window, breathed in the state of the world and decided... boys, the time is now!
 
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DrRadon said:
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€.
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Cloud is for more generic. what Apple announced is the first step of inbuilt AI on top of the OS. Exciting times, I don’t want my phone os and private data processed in cloud with AI. M1 iPad Pro should run most of it, my M! Max already runs models locally. I will not upgrade my iPhone for these features though.
 
vantelimus said:
I am old, almost 70. I've been paid to program for 50 years. I was underwhelmed. Most of what Apple announced was obvious (context for AI? wow, it's like someone read a 40-year-old AI textbook), derivative (proofreading and rewriting -- you mean how kids and professionals have been using LLMs for the last couple of years), represents diminishing returns for effort spent (rearranging and coloring icons on my phone), or downright no value (adding pictures of lizards riding surfboards in DMs).

Don't get me wrong. It all represents evolution and improvement of their software. No doubt, their system will be better, though it could also suffer from Apple trying to make it everything to everyone. It just wasn't impressive, as the drop in stock price verifies.
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You remember my reply to you stating the drop in price was normal and would probably rebound? As I type this at 0812 PDT the stock is UP 10 and has crossed the $200 threshold for the first time that I remember.
 
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...OMG the Calculator on the iPad?!? ....after 10 years I guess was long due. Wait, I need a new iPad for it...ahh, I skip and keep using the paid one. Anyone using the Calculator on Ventura? Or using the currency converter function on it? ...I give you 5$ if you teach me how🤣🤣🤣
 
Attirex said:
Apple stock tanks in 3…2…..
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And then the smart ones thought it over decided to buy AAPL the next morning - thank goodness.

Sometimes it takes a few days for the news to sink in. I mean, AAPL stock was moving down during the first hour of the keynote yesterday, and I can hardly blame them. First hour was boring stuff. Few people listen and understand - ie: Tim Cooke said that they would talk about "AI" towards the END of the presentation, so you really had to be patient. But it was SO boring, that people started getting down during the first hour, wondering if there was any AI at all.

The key for me was that the beta comes in summer and in fall there will actually be the start of something for real and private cloud and ChatGPT 4 also is accessible. I think the truth of it all is that AI is moving so fast, it will be a matter of waiting for the AI stuff to achieve sentience or something. Sit back and wait for the AI to take care of us all maybe.

Anyways - yah - it almost seems like Siri will be able to take real "action" on things. It would sure be nice!
 
Martyimac said:
You remember my reply to you stating the drop in price was normal and would probably rebound? As I type this at 0812 PDT the stock is UP 10 and has crossed the $200 threshold for the first time that I remember.
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Odd that it would happen on the day the World Bank released a report saying the economy of the world was far better than it had predicted driven by a stronger than expected US economy. And simultaneously with reports that iPhone sales in China have rebounded from disappointing numbers after Apple reduced prices.

No doubt a large part of the rebound was due to the glowing press Apple has been getting today. I will stick by my lack of enthusiasm. With Apple Intelligence months away from making it into a beta build, they have time to figure out a better story than “We are doing the stuff we thought of and we are tacking on ChatGPT to take care of the stuff that we missed but that everyone has been talking about for the last two years.”
 
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Just finished watching MacBreak Weekly and their take on Apple AI makes since. Personally I really don't know what AR is in this context. As a Science Fiction zealot since the early 1960's I know what how AI is depicted in these books. mostly a sentient companion that lives in wristband, a floating device, or implants. Apple is pushing out Augmented Reality in the form of stuff the average person will actually use.
 
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