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Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by nerdjon »

theshrike79 wrote: post #24
nerdjon wrote: post #15

I am pretty unhappy with Apple doing the image generation, was really hoping that just would not happen. But a lot of the other features actually seem useful without feeling shoehorned in. At least so far. I am hoping that I can turn off the ability to use a server while keeping local processing, but curious what that would actually look like. Would it just say "sorry can't do that" or something? Is it that there is…

It was Google who wanted to put glue on pizza, not ChatGPT :)

I feel like I remember there being plenty of examples of bad ChatGPT recipe generation.

Regardless, even if it wasn't ChatGPT, given the recent problems I would not have used that as one example given that regardless of who it came from.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by toddmorey »

menacingly wrote: post #34

The privacy conversation was pretty shady, and honestly full of technical holes with pointless misleading distractions

I thought privacy was really well handled for a high-level overview. Basically it seems like anything thing it can't do on device uses ephemeral private compute with no stored data.

Any data sent to 3rd party AI models requests your consent first.

The details will need to emerge on how they live up to this vision, but I think it's the best AI privacy model so far. I only wish they'd go further and release the Apple Intelligence models as open source.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by oidar »

bigyikes wrote: post #28

My home is filled with Apple HomePods even though Siri is dumb as rocks. Looking forward to my house gaining a few IQ points. I don’t see anything that mentions HomePod specifically but hopefully the updates will come.

I was looking for homepod updates as well - I want to get rid of my Amazon Echo devices with homepods, but siri is #1 Slow #2 Dumb #3 messes up my grocery list. Grocery list and timers are the main use case for Amazon Echos - I really hope apple fixes it soon.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by menacingly »

cjk2 wrote: post #26

This stuff will be well integrated, is useful, will be high quality and doesn't require you to buy new hardware. Microsoft are so boned. They don't even have a mobile proposition.

microsoft was always going to take SMBs. Data is what makes them useful, so Microsoft keeps their SMBs, Apple gets consumers, Google gets their slice of productivity and android, where their preachy models will let you know if you did a harassment

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by bee_rider »

cjk2 wrote: post #26

This stuff will be well integrated, is useful, will be high quality and doesn't require you to buy new hardware. Microsoft are so boned. They don't even have a mobile proposition.

On the contrary this is probably good for MS. Lots of people just don’t want to buy into the Apple ecosystem. MS is dumping R&D money into this ML stuff, apparently without thinking of an actual product or application first. So, now they can just copy Apple.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by tr3ntg »

doctoboggan wrote: post #44

Apple trying to rebrand AI = "Apple Intelligence" is a totally Apple thing to do. I'll be curious to see if Apple gets caught with some surprise or scandal from unexpected behavior in their generative models. I expect that the rollout will be smoother than Bing or Google's first attempts, but I don't think even Apple will prove capable of identifying and mitigating all possible edge cases. I noticed during the livest…

I noticed this too. I quickly skimmed a rewritten email and it was totally wooden. It's the one where they ask the AI to reword their rant that includes tons of all-caps words.

The output is almost worse, dripping in a passive aggressive tone.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by lacy_tinpot »

doctoboggan wrote: post #44

Apple trying to rebrand AI = "Apple Intelligence" is a totally Apple thing to do. I'll be curious to see if Apple gets caught with some surprise or scandal from unexpected behavior in their generative models. I expect that the rollout will be smoother than Bing or Google's first attempts, but I don't think even Apple will prove capable of identifying and mitigating all possible edge cases. I noticed during the livest…

It's bad branding because they can't use the "AI" abbreviation. It's too commonly used to be appropriated by Apple. Honestly calling it "Apple Intelligence" just feels a little lazy.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by whimsicalism »

nsbk wrote: post #18

This on-device, private cloud compute, and tight hardware-software integration take may be first useful for all genAI we’ve seen so far. Apple may have actually nailed this one. Edit: except for image generation. That one sucks

> Edit: except for image generation. That one sucks

Say more? it's just the media thing about intellectual property rights?

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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Post by zombiwoof »

rvz wrote: post #4

Lots of apps have been sherlocked once again and this marks the accelerated race to zero with Apple's entrance with on-device AI all system-wide. No API keys, no prompt engineering or switching between AI models. It. just. works.

Ha ha. Let’s see if it just. Works.
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