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Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

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Re: Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

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Post by syntaxing »

pid-1 wrote: post #27
everdrive wrote: post #4

This is emblematic of the LLM race in general. We’re actively pressured to use co-pilot at work, and it’s crammed into every Microsoft product. I’m thankful that my iPhone is old enough not to use LLMs. Companies are afraid of being left behind in the new arms race, but that doesn’t actually mean that the technology actually present use-cases which most people need. (Worse are the meeting summaries or emails which ar…

I've brought MS Copilot licenses for my company in ~ February 2023. They were sold in a yearly commitment and offered no trials. A bad deal, but I was afraid of missing out AI productivity gains. I'm definitely not renewing those. Times are hard and the value provided does not justify the cost. I wonder how many companies will do the same.

I recently personally resubscribed to copilot after cancelling my subscription a couple months ago since it was not providing value. But now with the new/beta “Edit” mode and being able to specify to use o1, o1 mini, and sonnet 3.5, the $10 a month feels a lot more worth it. The edit mode has outperformed aider for me.

Re: Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

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Post by redundantly »

october8140 wrote: post #17

The only use case I find it good for is coding. And even in that case it’s more of getting from 0 to 50% quickly and I have to make corrections and finish the last 50%. I have not had a single other use case that it seems well suited for.

What product are you using that has Apple Intelligence built into it?

Re: Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

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Post by oorza »

ARandumGuy wrote: post #23
everdrive wrote: post #4

This is emblematic of the LLM race in general. We’re actively pressured to use co-pilot at work, and it’s crammed into every Microsoft product. I’m thankful that my iPhone is old enough not to use LLMs. Companies are afraid of being left behind in the new arms race, but that doesn’t actually mean that the technology actually present use-cases which most people need. (Worse are the meeting summaries or emails which ar…

What I don't understand is, what benefit is there for 99% of companies to get in on the ground floor of LLMs? If you're not developing your own model, you're effectively just beta testing someone else's model. And if the sales pitch of LLMs being able to do basically anything comes true, wouldn't most companies still get the same benefit if they just wait? It seems like a lot of companies are so terrified of missing…

I think you'll find most people in leadership positions at most companies are not that forward thinking, proactive, or frankly intelligent. I thought cost-benefit and risk was analyzed on most big company decisions, until I sat in rooms for a Fortune 500 where those decisions were getting made. If you assume that everyone everywhere is doing just barely the minimum to not get fired, you're right more often than not.

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Post by adregan »

taylodl wrote: post #2

Apple has tons of user engagement data. You would think they would have a heatmap showing them where their customers are spending a lot of time trying to accomplish a task. I would focus Apple Intelligence, amongst other tools, to reduce the time needed to accomplish that task. If I were the PO, that's how I'd proceed. I'd want my customers to be able to reduce the time they're spending using the phone and yet gettin…

I imagine my heatmap would show I spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to edit urls in the browser bar.

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Post by vondur »

everdrive wrote: post #4

This is emblematic of the LLM race in general. We’re actively pressured to use co-pilot at work, and it’s crammed into every Microsoft product. I’m thankful that my iPhone is old enough not to use LLMs. Companies are afraid of being left behind in the new arms race, but that doesn’t actually mean that the technology actually present use-cases which most people need. (Worse are the meeting summaries or emails which ar…

The Zoom AI summary seems to work pretty well for me.

Re: Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

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Post by hengheng »

Now do the same survey on Siri. I bet the result is going to be the same.

The age-old concept of "affordance" in a user interface, where a device announces its capabilities to the user, has completely gone down the drain. Now we're back to mystical buttons that claim to perform magic, and we happily ignore the tedious process of figuring out what just happened, implying that is not part of the User's Experience.

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