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Apple Spending a 'Tremendous Amount of Time and Effort' on AI, Details Coming 'Later This Year'
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But good AI would have alerted you to the upcoming anniversary a day or more before.
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That is a valid question.
I do not expect miracles from Siri Apple, but I do need him to be able to know I have events in my calendar and so…
When prompted about the time of an upcoming flight, I do not want Siri to tell me: "Here's what I found about flights to Greece." — a list of websites.
Just give me the info I have in my emails, calendar, to-do lists etc.
That alone would be a huge start.
But Siri Apple sure knows how to set a timer, so there's that.
100% this, the same is true of the Google Assistant, which is readily losing features and performance.
I have a Nest Hub or Hub Max in every room of my house and they're really just photo frames that tell me when someone has pressed the doorbell at this point. My HomePods get far more use day to day and reliably interact with my smart home stuff and the rest of my first party ecosystem.
Google at least has bard which they can pivot to, I'm not sure what Amazon's future in the space is.
strange that they are doing this only now. They should have done this the day they started working on Siri!
I think the team is long gone. It is not possible to stagnate for so long and not get fired.
At least in the apple of old, there were flexible teams. I’d guess, that team is long gone, but not because it was fired, but because it was dissolved and had to work on another project. That might also be the reason why bugs don‘t get fixed for years or new features often don‘t see any updates until they are forgotten.
The original developers left Apple after a while, and it's been said that the Siri architecture is very difficult to handle and even harder to extend. It sounds like it needed a rearchitecturing from the ground up, and nobody succeeded in selling that to leadership.
The moment is coming when Macs will have a LLM built in, which will require everyone that has less than 16GB RAM to buy a new Mac to take advantage of it 😅😭
Apple's evil master plan of making un-upgradable Macs with too little RAM as a base config, with ridiculously expensive upgrades, will truly pay dividends when this feature drops... 😱
@Atog @Agincourt @AJB1971 @chucker23n1 @hurt97 Was tempted to tag someone else too 🤣🤣🤣
Apple's evil master plan of making un-upgradable Macs with too little RAM as a base config, with ridiculously expensive upgrades, will truly pay dividends when this feature drops... 😱
@Atog @Agincourt @AJB1971 @chucker23n1 @hurt97 Was tempted to tag someone else too 🤣🤣🤣
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Apple has almost never been the first mover in any market. Why should AI be any different?
I'm pretty sure that everything you mention here and almost everything else you care about is pretty low on Apple's list.
It's the opposite. At the low level of semiconductors, it is non-deterministic quantum properties which reign.
Apple has released several bits over the passed several months that shows what they’re working on and the direction they’re headed…
- Ferret which is a multi-model (image, text) system that has surpassed even ChatGPT 4 Vision in detail and accuracy
- Apple’s mlx framework which allows LLM’s to be built and run on Macs
- and their work in getting LLM’s to run on devices with much, much less memory by offloading part of it to flash memory.
It would seem to me that Apple’s main interest is getting “AI” on device rather than from the cloud, which is why we haven’t seen anything from them yet. But like the article mentions, I’ sure we’ll see something at WWDC this year. (Their text prediction system is iOS 17 is based off the same transformer models used by most of the LLMs.)
And Siri works fine for me, but I’ve been using it regularly for years. Maybe it just understands me better?
The Alexa app is an absolute horror show full of ads. This along with the fact they want to charge for a smarter Alexa should make knocking Amazon out easy. Google will be hard to compete with especially if Apple holds back in the name of privacy (which I get) or just flat out not following thru with a new and improved Siri. I am afraid they will get on stage and talk a big game and then let it languish like they have done with the current Siri. I am not holding my breath.
"Here's what I found on the web about "Spending a tremendous amount of time and effort on AI..."
I'm glad to hear this. Siri is so far behind that it's almost unusable for all but the most basic of tasks.
I'm glad to hear this. Siri is so far behind that it's almost unusable for all but the most basic of tasks.
But, does Apple have any track record at successfully incorporating any tech company they've bought (not including Beats) after Jobs left? Or do they just buy them, ignore the founders, piss the founders off, then wait for the founders to leave, and ignore the technology like it was in the trash bin.
I think AI, if done at all, should be entirely on device. That’s just my philosophy.
I imagine suddenly after Apple does it, Android phones are going to start shipping with silly amounts of RAM as Samsung and others try a quick fix to go on device. But it won’t work, Apple has been working on this for years and dedicated hardware decisions specifically to it.
Apple was far ahead when Siri first came out. It was really nice but then Apple sat on their laurels and now they are way behind. That’s what happens to a company once they start pinching pennies and try to milk their customers for every dollar they can for maximum profit. Innovation has suffered greatly. If Apple continues on that path they will quickly start becoming irelevent in the tech industry.
Apple has drawn a line in the sand on not allowing voice recognition to be sent to servers.
Google/Amazon/etc don’t have that Hangup because their assistants are designed to get you to use their services…which if it’s free means it’s just data collection for their ad platforms.
Very curious!
I try to have as few accounts as possible, and if apple creates something comparable to Microsoft's Copilot, or ChatGPT, I'd more than gladly stick with the apple solution.
I'm especially curious to see what'll be possible on the macOS side of things, as I'm much more of a computer user than a smartphone one.
I try to have as few accounts as possible, and if apple creates something comparable to Microsoft's Copilot, or ChatGPT, I'd more than gladly stick with the apple solution.
I'm especially curious to see what'll be possible on the macOS side of things, as I'm much more of a computer user than a smartphone one.