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Post by rootveg »

gavmor wrote: post #208
TechnicolorByte wrote: post #153

Have to say, I was thoroughly impressed by what Apple showed today with all this Personal AI stuff. And it proves that the real power of consumer AI will be in the hands of the platform owners where you have most of your digital life in already (Apple or Google for messaging, mail, photos, apps; Microsoft for work and/or life). The way Siri can now perform actions based on context from emails and messages like settin…

> the platform owners where you have most of your digital life Yup! The hardest part of operationalizing GenAI has been, for me, dragging the "ring" of my context under the light cast by "streetlamp" of the model. Just writing this analogy out makes me think I might be putting the cart before the horse.

Whenever I read that expression I have to think about the Porsche commercial from a few years back. I guess it’s not always a bad idea :)

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Post by latexr »

alberth wrote: post #124

Regarding OpenAI, has Apple in its history ever relied so heavily on a 3rd party for software features? (TSMC for hardware, but it seems very un-Apple to be so dependent upon someone else for software capabilities like OpenAI)

That might be smarter than we initially give it credit. By leaving the “safer” (read: harder to get wrong) things to their own models and then the more “creative” stuff to an explicit external model, they can shift blame: “Hey, we didn’t made up that information, we explicitly said that was ChatGPT”. I don’t think they’ll say it outright like that. Because they won’t have to.

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Post by Geee »

whimsicalism wrote: post #71

It's interesting how positive the commentary is here. I am generally much more pro-AI than the average HN commentator, but frankly I find this release completely underwhelming. Just replace Siri with chatgpt and give it actions, that is what everyone wants - why can't we have that?

Absolutely no one wants to hand their private information to any company, especially OpenAI. Everyone was waiting for an on-device LLM from Apple and they delivered.

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Post by avtar »

wilg wrote: post #140
talldayo wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and OpenAI won’t store requests. What's a promise from Sam Altman worth, again?

What broken Sam Altman promises are you referring to?

Personally I would say the disparity between what was in their founding agreement "be open-source—freely and publicly available for anyone to use, modify and distribute" https://archive.ph/R0LBL to the current state of affairs.

But I guess the list of grievances could be longer:

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-should-we-learn-from-...

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Post by xnx »

the_arun wrote: post #152

Wouldn't this reduce sales for Grammerly? If Apple packs the same feature for every application in iOS, it is kinda cool. Private Cloud - Isn't this what Amazon did with their tablet - Fire? What is the difference with Apple Private Cloud?

Grammarly is great example of the classic adage, "a feature, not a product".

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Post by amne »

skilled wrote: post #109

They did a lot of work for this release, and the number of integrations is beyond what I expected. In a few years time you might not need to hold your phone at all and just get everything done with voice - kind of cool, actually. Auto transcripts for calls (with permission) is another feature I really liked. I was a little surprised to see/hear no mention of inaccuracies, but for ChatGPT they did show the "Check for…

So far the only reasonable place I can think of where I could find myself actually using voice to control anything is on the toilet. that's it

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Post by imabotbeep2937 »

terramex wrote: post #217
TIPSIO wrote: post #127

So the future of computing really is AI agents doing everything: - siri text chat now on the lock screen - incoming a billion developer app functions/APIs - better notifications - can make network requests Why even open any other app?

> Why even open any other app? This was my first thought when I saw Rabbit r1 - will all of us become backend developers just glueing various API between legacy services and LLMs? Today seems like another step in that direction.

The whole world will be headless content. There won't be any web pages, or bank sites, or TV networks. Nobody will be a developer. We'll all just be content authors, like Google Maps Guides basically being unpaid interns checking restaurant data for Google.

You open your phone, it just shovels content. And it does absolutely nothing but optimize on addiction.

No apps, only masters.

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Post by Almondsetat »

alberth wrote: post #124

Regarding OpenAI, has Apple in its history ever relied so heavily on a 3rd party for software features? (TSMC for hardware, but it seems very un-Apple to be so dependent upon someone else for software capabilities like OpenAI)

iCloud uses Google Cloud
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