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This isn’t the Apple I remember. Product integration falls apart at every seam, but don’t worry—we’ve got plenty of impressive technical documentation to compensate. I’m sure Jobs would be thrilled to see his ‘it just works’ philosophy replaced with ‘it barely works, but here’s a 50-page PDF explaining why.
All I can say is, I asked Siri today (verbatim): What is 75 degrees fahrenheit in celsius, and what is 85 degrees in fahrenheit — and it offered a web search about fahrenheit. The "and" completely disabled its most basic ability to do metric conversions. So, it's nice to see Apple is doing research and talking about it, but we're out here waiting, still waiting, for anything useful to make of it all on our thousand-d…
You asked 2 questions in a system made for 1 question at a time. Split these up and Siri answers them fine. You’re holding it wrong.
> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot. > We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remo…
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None of those features are in any way interesting though. Image playground is a joke, Siri is a joke, that generative emoji thing is a joke. The AI stuff with photography sure, but that’s more like machine learning. The photo touch up thing is… useable? Sometimes? What is it you’ve been so impressed with?
> why isn’t my iPhone doing any of this yet? > Ok its doing it in 4 or 5 products, but thats a joke. Not every AI product is a chatbot.
Wow.
> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot. > We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remo…
They are decades behind in AI. I have been following AI research for a long time. You can find best papers published by Microsoft, Google, Facebook in past 15 years but not Apple. I don't know why but they didn't care about AI at all.
I would say this is PR to justify their AI state.
> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot. > We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remo…
You shouldn't believe Big Tech on their PR statements. They are decades behind in AI. I have been following AI research for a long time. You can find best papers published by Microsoft, Google, Facebook in past 15 years but not Apple. I don't know why but they didn't care about AI at all. I would say this is PR to justify their AI state.
And then they just... gave up?
I don't know what happened to them. When AI breakthrough happened, I expected them to put up a fight. They never did.
> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot. > We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remo…
> Using our web crawling strategy, we sourced pairs of images with corresponding alt-texts. An issue for anti-AI people, as seen on Bluesky, is that they're often "insisting you write alt text for all images" people as well. But this is probably the main use for alt text at this point, so they're essentially doing annotation work for free.
> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot. > We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remo…
> Using our web crawling strategy, we sourced pairs of images with corresponding alt-texts. An issue for anti-AI people, as seen on Bluesky, is that they're often "insisting you write alt text for all images" people as well. But this is probably the main use for alt text at this point, so they're essentially doing annotation work for free.
> this is probably the main use for alt text at this point
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None of those features are in any way interesting though. Image playground is a joke, Siri is a joke, that generative emoji thing is a joke. The AI stuff with photography sure, but that’s more like machine learning. The photo touch up thing is… useable? Sometimes? What is it you’ve been so impressed with?
The main features are text summarization, search, and writing tools.
‘Writing tools’ is there in the text pop up now instead of ‘look up’ even if you’re selecting text on a webpage. It’s just in the way and useless.