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While I think it's cool and I appreciate Apple crafting better stories on why this is helpful, I still think for the everyday person, they won't really care if it's AI or not.
Who cares how your flight information shows up at the right time in the right place? the only thing that should matter is that it does.
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> I always saw this level of personal intelligence to come about at some point, but I didn’t expect Apple to hit it out of the park so strongly. Benefit of drawing people into their ecosystem. It's the benefit of how Apple does product ownership. In contrast to Google and Microsoft. I hadn't considered it, but AI convergence is going to lay bare organizational deficiencies in a way previous revolutions didn't. Nobody…
Why wouldn't Microsoft be able to? Anyway, while I see all of your points, none of the things I've read in the news make me excited. Recapping meetings or long emails or suggesting how to write are just...not major concerns to me at least.
they are irrelevant on the mobile ecosystem, a place where almost all this features are most relevant and useful
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I like their approach. Do everything possible on device and if it can only be done off-device, provide that choice.
You misunderstand. They will go off device without asking you, they just ask if you want to use ChatGPT.
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Why take up processor time or memory for a feature I don't want? Or the increase in threat space?
This could be said for literally every single feature of a smartphone, down to the out of order execution of the CPU
iphone 15 Pro 8 GB RAM (https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_15_pro-12557.php)
iphone 15 6 GB Ram (https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_15-12559.php)
I am deeply disturbed they decided to go off-device for these services to work. This is a terrible precedent, seemingly inconsistent with their previous philosophies and likely a pressured decision. I don't care if they put the word "private" in there or have an endless amount of "expert" audits. What a shame.
They didn't have a choice. Doing everything on-device would result in a horrible user experience. They might as well not participate in this generative AI rush at all if they hoped to keep it on-device. Which would have looked even worse for them. Their brand is equally about creativity as it is about privacy. They wouldn't chop off one arm to keep the other, but that's what you're suggesting they should have done. A…
On the contrary, I'm shocked over the last few months how "on device" on a Macbook Pro or Mac Studio competes plausibly with last year's early GPT-4, leveraging Llama 3 70b or Qwen2 72b.
There are surprisingly few things you "need" 128GB of so-called "unified RAM" for, but with M-series processors and the memory bandwidth, this is a use case that shines.
From this thread covering performance of llama.cpp on Apple Silicon M-series …
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4167
… "Buy as much memory as you can afford would be my bottom line!"
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Why? Things are secure (outside of the explicit OpenAI calls via Siri) and mostly seem subtly integrated. You don't have to use each feature, but why blindly disable all AI having not even tried it?
Not wanting to send that much data to Apple's server no matter the pinky promise they make about caring for our data? That's a legit ask.
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if I can't turn 100% of this botshit off then my iphone's going in the bin I'll go back to a dumbphone before I feed the AI
You’re not feeding anything by having this feature turned on
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> AKA there would be a way to choose backends. I think the percentage of iPhone users for who this would matter is very small. It's similar to how many people care about using a different browser than Safari on iOS (or Chrome on Google): in the US at least, those two browsers have ~95% market share.
> I think the percentage of iPhone users for who this would matter is very small. Oh yeah? Then why don't they permit you to choose an App Store, a browser, a messenger, a blah blah blah...
And there are plenty of messaging apps on iOS.
App store, sure, they don't allow sideloading, but that's a different matter (and the number of users, not devs, who care about that is even smaller)