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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by kemayo »

newaccount74 wrote: post #87
flippy_flops wrote: post #45

I am absolutely baffled that Apple (and others) haven't updated their smart assistants with a competitive LLM. With Apple's privacy shtick and their mobile GPU efficiency, I was convinced we'd see something today. What am I missing?

I think Apple missed the boat on LLMs and was surprised by the success of ChatGPT. They are no doubt working on an LLM-based Siri now, but they don't rush things, and they don't preannounce things, so we'll only hear about it once it is ready. And they are probably going to use a different term for marketing it rather than using a generic term like LLM.

Yeah, it seems plausible that they'll do it eventually, but it'll be "the new improved Siri, powered by the Neural Engine and transformer models".

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by flippy_flops »

brap wrote: post #142
flippy_flops wrote: post #45

I am absolutely baffled that Apple (and others) haven't updated their smart assistants with a competitive LLM. With Apple's privacy shtick and their mobile GPU efficiency, I was convinced we'd see something today. What am I missing?

I think the last thing people want is a voice assistant that babbles on and on forever when asked a simple question. I really hope that when they release something, the responses will be 5% of the endless stream of words ChatGPT & others produce.

Agree - fwiw, I added "ChatGPT should keep answers brief and direct." as part of my Custom instructions and it's a massive improvement.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by fckgw »

warthog wrote: post #147

Another unnecessarily long event with essentially meaningless long sentences and long pauses to show off the new Iphone, exactly the same one as before, $100 more expensive. I will buy it though. Gotta get rid of my Iphone 7. Time has come

It's the same price as last year?

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by BonoboIO »

gnicholas wrote: post #26

IMO, this was a pretty weak announcement. They spent so long talking about environmental stuff, like getting rid of leather, that it felt like they were trying to pad the presentation to reach a reasonable length. There were a few new things (more optical zoom, slightly smaller bezels), but these were all leaked in advance. I was also disappointed to hear that the satellite stuff is limited to 2 years. Is it going to…

I m stunned that a company like Apple sold leather cases for a premium price with a quality that you can only call trash.

Every 10 dollar knockoff from AliExpress had better quality than this.

Not selling these anymore is not a big loss.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by jeroenhd »

bilekas wrote: post #109

> A huge leap forward for iPhone with a gorgeous new design I do like iPhone, I actually have a personal one and work provide me with one too, I like their security aspects. But can how can they say with a straigh face this is a new design ?

If they don't, an entire team of designers may lose their jobs. It has to be new or refreshing, otherwise what's the point of buying a new one?

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#169

Post by threeseed »

flippy_flops wrote: post #45

I am absolutely baffled that Apple (and others) haven't updated their smart assistants with a competitive LLM. With Apple's privacy shtick and their mobile GPU efficiency, I was convinced we'd see something today. What am I missing?

From rumours [1] it is being worked on.

Apple isn't the sort of company to rush something out just to be competitive.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/06/apple-conversational-ai...

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by kemayo »

bilsbie wrote: post #144

I thought we were getting a better zoom lens? I guess not? I’d really get a lot of use out of 4 or 6x. I also wish they’d stop editing the pictures so much. It’s decided I should have gray hair even though I don’t in real life. Really strange. Oh and it destroys sunset photos. I get completely different colors than I see with my eyes for sunsets.

There's a better zoom in the Pro Max. 5x.

This is consistent with all the rumors, which were all-in on "the biggest Pro is getting the new camera tech".

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