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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by JKCalhoun »

gostsamo wrote: post #206
lolinder wrote: post #131

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The reason why Apple has failed to integrate AI successfully into the iPhone isn't because we need an AI-first device, it's because AI is still universally being strategized as a solution in search of a problem. An AI-first device at this stage will fail for the same reason: it doesn't have a mission statement to solve particular problems for real people, it has a mission statement to be an AI device. The absolute be…

I don't know for all other people, but ai totally can be solution to some of my problems, but the current technological landscape does not let it. I'd like for my ai assistant to have as much context about me as possible so that it can give me help in different situations. At the same time, the ai should be unable to share this info with anyone else. However, I cannot imagine Google or Microsoft committing to safegua…

I've been realizing lately, as I have leaned heavier on LLMs to do what I would have used Google and search to do previously, that what I want — what I am searching for — is not a page or site but just the damned answer to my query.

"At what time does the first train from Stirling to Edinburgh arrive?" I don't need a page to the train time-tables (or god forbid, a vacation package to Scotland) — just the answer to my question.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by bazmattaz »

detectd wrote: post #303
bigyabai wrote: post #81

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And many of those designs were made at Ive's behest, against the wishes of entire teams of engineers. I feel like we have his "courage" to blame for the Butterfly keyboard, terrible Mac thermals and the lack of ports on "Pro" computers.

Don't forget the Apple Mouse with the lightning port under the mouse so you can't use it while it charges. It's still the only Apple product with a design that makes me physically cringe. I also find it awkward and uncomfortable to use, but that might just be me.

I love the Apple mouse. Been using it for 10ish years. But yeh it’s an absolute ball ache when it loses battery and you reallly need a mouse

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Post by vessenes »

OpenAI board: "Should we dilute the company 2% to acquire Jony Ive for the next 10 years? Yes."

Hacker News: "Man these OpenAI folks are idiots."

OpenAI absolutely should be getting in the hardware game; Ive is a mix of status acquisition and unicorn, and is not the only person/team/company you'd need to make a quality hardware product. But on balance I'd pay 2% of every company I ever had any financial engagement with to get Mr. Ive doing its design. I mean srsly.

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Post by microtonal »

bigyabai wrote: post #81
amelius wrote: post #65

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> No question that Ive is a legend Not sure why he deserves to be a legend, to be honest, but yes, he is a legend. He did a good job, but those small and minimalistic designs were only possible because of the efforts of entire teams of engineers, of which the public never heard anything.

And many of those designs were made at Ive's behest, against the wishes of entire teams of engineers. I feel like we have his "courage" to blame for the Butterfly keyboard, terrible Mac thermals and the lack of ports on "Pro" computers.

The almost two decades before he made great designs. I have always felt it went downhill after Jobs was not there anymore to provide a counter force to Ive's design tendencies. It's like taking one of John or Paul away.
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