Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
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Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#2I think this is the correct approach on a phone. I don't want AI front-and-center. I want it in the background quietly making everything better. To me, that's a much more useful form of AI.
Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#3I have a Samsung A55 but I shudder to think that soon the AI crap will trickle down to midrange devices.
Samsung is "all in" on AI.
Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#4Good.
Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#5I think this is the correct approach on a phone. I don't want AI front-and-center. I want it in the background quietly making everything better. To me, that's a much more useful form of AI.
I have a similar philosophy about home automation. Every few years I geek out and set up a bunch of crap and spend a bunch of money and waste a lot of time, and then it tends to fall apart fairly quickly and I repent of everything...
...except for the motion-activated lighting in our foyer and laundry room. $15, 15 minutes to install, no additional charges, no external services, no security issues, and just works year after year with 100% reliability.
Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#6I think this is the correct approach on a phone. I don't want AI front-and-center. I want it in the background quietly making everything better. To me, that's a much more useful form of AI.
I have a similar philosophy about home automation. Every few years I geek out and set up a bunch of crap and spend a bunch of money and waste a lot of time, and then it tends to fall apart fairly quickly and I repent of everything... ...except for the motion-activated lighting in our foyer and laundry room. $15, 15 minutes to install, no additional charges, no external services, no security issues, and just works yea…
"Any sufficiently advanced home automation is indistinguishable from a haunting."
Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#7That's because people don't trust AI that much... and most people don't differentiate between a really cool feature and AI so it's more confusing marketing than anything.
Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#8I think this is the correct approach on a phone. I don't want AI front-and-center. I want it in the background quietly making everything better. To me, that's a much more useful form of AI.
And I want it turned the fuck off, quietly not doing anything with my personal shit.
I want to reach for my tools when I want to use them.
Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#9That's because people don't trust AI that much... and most people don't differentiate between a really cool feature and AI so it's more confusing marketing than anything.
I think it's more because they're way behind on AI and they literally have nothing to actually tell us.
Re: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
#10They did talk about ML in their image processing software for their cameras, though. And I don’t think they mentioned AI when talking about their babelfish AirPods, but it’s clearly there, as well.