Local models running on Apple hardware are definitely a thing, a low-hanging fruit they are harvesting right now while every pure-play AI company is losing money.
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#12Stock valuation has nothing to do with AI being the most transformational tech ever devised. Like who can't grasp that
I don't think LLMs can approach, in terms of transformational power, writing, printing, or even the personal computer, but I get what you're saying.
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#13> Zirton misses a few points… What! Ends with a cliff-hanger!? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT POINTS HE MISSED!!! (but not badly enough to buy a $100/mo subscription).
Zitron reminds me of that lawyer character in Silicon Valley (HBO). A ~decade later, turned influencer.
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#14Hosted by Apple or not, but isn’t the biggest feature of iOS 27 LLM integration?
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#15Is this investment advice? Otherwise, who cares? Don't tie your identity to being a fan of a company. Apple clearly did not intend to fumble their attempts at AI they way they have. Arguments that "Actually, Apple is the smartest at AI" are boring.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
they never had my business; their style over all else along with the combination of planned obsolescence and conspicuous consumption are obscene misuse of the human heuristics.
They're the company that builds laptops people still use 5-10 years later. If anything they've set the standard for long lifespans when it comes to tech devices.
Well you can still run Windows 11 rev 25H2 on a Intel/AMD 2016 hardware through easily forced upgrade or install (nocpu/notpm), did it this afternoon on an entry level Lenovo laptop i5-6200u based, while you can only upgrade up to MacOS Monterey (12.x) on a late 2016 macbook pro. So rather ~5 years than 10.
But thoses past "performances" might not reflect futures ones, yep.
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#17Google will win the AI war. I really don t see how things can be different. The true question is how much the involvement of Sergei Brin will have been a major part of that win. [but now that I work in a big corp, I can understand how one smart guy saying “shut the f..k up, managers. I show the path” can be extremely disruptive in those kind of environments. For the better!]
In my personal experience, Gemini seems to have the best image editing and creation capabilities but when it comes to coding, Claude is my favorite. However, Claude is slow and errors out for me often. Grok is also very good when it comes to coding but I seek to run into their rate limits much easier, so I don't use it.
I only use free web version for all btw.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
they never had my business; their style over all else along with the combination of planned obsolescence and conspicuous consumption are obscene misuse of the human heuristics.
They're the company that builds laptops people still use 5-10 years later. If anything they've set the standard for long lifespans when it comes to tech devices.
They also glued the short ribbon cable for the screen to the front of the iPod classic so that when the spinning HDD failed if you tried to open it and weren't very careful/aware of this it would rip off the motherboard.
There was a class action because they deliberately slowed down iPhones claiming it was for battery health (anecdotally, when I had iPhones I noticed they were always a a pain to use for a month before and after the new releases, but it could be in my head).
They solder in RAM so it's difficult or impossible to upgrade.
I have an M1 MBP and the battery life is half of what it used to be. However I also have Applecare so of course the battery health is stuck at 84% (fairly sure, but not totally sure, that it was at 82% a few months ago) because they won't replace the battery unless it's under 80%. A lot of people report the battery health getting stuck just above 80% if they have Applecare.
Their hardware is great, I agree with you, but let's not pretend they don't play that game.
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#19> Zirton misses a few points… What! Ends with a cliff-hanger!? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT POINTS HE MISSED!!! (but not badly enough to buy a $100/mo subscription).
Zitron reminds me of that lawyer character in Silicon Valley (HBO). A ~decade later, turned influencer.
You mean the same character who plays the male lead on Superstore? They are primarily an influencer now?
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#20Ed Zitron also said that consumers were losing interest in ChatGPT in January 2024, that AI models were reaching their upper possible limits in Feburary 2024, that ChatGPT and similar products were "not particularly useful for anything", that hallucinations could not possibly be reduced in models, etc. He's a churlish AI skeptic that isn't worth listening to.
Exactly. In all facets of life, it's amazing that people continue to listen to those with a strong track record of confidently wrong predictions.