"Everything is just a few hundred clicks away"? Did he actually say that? Did the Apple wheel (as keyboard replacement) really happen or is that a spoof video? I don't remember that. My memory is failing me.
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"Everything is just a few hundred clicks away"? Did he actually say that? Did the Apple wheel (as keyboard replacement) really happen or is that a spoof video? I don't remember that. My memory is failing me.
Beyond 5th grade—meaning all the swear words !$*(^#@
Seriously though, why does iOS hate contractions? I wouldn't recommend using them in technical writing, but they don't break the rules of English. Autocorrect refuses to recognize them for me.
I is going to make people lazy. It will destroy artistic expression. It will destroy writing, music, etc. I would HATE to be a teacher/instructor trying to discern if the term paper I'm grading was written by the student of an A.I. bot. I just don't like the direction the industry is going. But jousting windmills is futile (as is resistance, I guess). I did pick the correct platform that is further behind on the A.I. bandwagon than most...thank you, Apple!
You know, I am being carful with my expectations. I feel like Apple will try and give iOS 18 a lot of AI features, but Siri is still going to be lame when it comes to requests. Like, I won't be blown away unless I can use Siri like I can use ChatGPT. The only thing missing from ChatGPT is the ability to actually text and take requests for my home automation and ya know, control my phone. Haha.
With Siri, I feel like you have to be way to specific with requests to get it to work just right and it adds way too much thinking and it takes way less brain power to just do the task your self. Haha.
With Siri, I feel like you have to be way to specific with requests to get it to work just right and it adds way too much thinking and it takes way less brain power to just do the task your self. Haha.
I would be surprised if there weren’t any iPhone 16 exclusive AI features given Apple’s history. They probably won’t be announced until Apple introduces the 16 lineup in September. It’s possible that the 15 Pro could be excluded from getting those AI features just as my 14 Pro didn’t get the 24mp option with the camera that the 15 got despite having the same A16 Pro processor and same amount of RAM.
Apple should really have an option for people that have no concern about their data going over the internet.
Imagine a future where we will no longer have to deal with annoying messages and emails since our AI assistants can reply to them autonomously.
In fact, AIs could have entire conversations with other AIs with no need for human intervention. Siri could just give you a summary at the end of the day if there was anything that actually needed human attention.
It won’t be that bad. There’ll be an AI to read and grade the term papers, too.
Where’s the option to tell Siri to turn all this off?
This is one iOS I won’t rush to get - this is a major overhaul. You Guinea pigs can get the likely bugs first!
This is one iOS I won’t rush to get - this is a major overhaul. You Guinea pigs can get the likely bugs first!
If I’m dictating it will often change a contraction to the non contracted two word version, but if I’m typing and leave out the apostrophe, it will insert the apostrophe where it belongs with no problem. It has never changed, or marked as an error, any contraction I’ve typed with the apostrophe. As an example I left out the apostrophes while typing this and they were added by autocorrect.
It’s already started. My sister teaches English composition on the college level. Writing assignments all have to be turned in using a service named ‘Turn it In’. The service will mark plagiarism and report the percentage of the paper copied from other sources and a probability percentage that it was written by AI.
It’s unfortunate that it’s come to this, but partially because these anti cheating decision making algorithms (both human and software based) are fallible.
Two failures from recent times come to mind:
1. Two medical students were accused of cheating because they behaved similarly during the exam and their answers were quite similar to each other. They were forced to leave medical school over this. Well, they were identical twins that studied together and there was no concrete evidence of actual cheating, just a suspicion. They sued and eventually won a 7-figure payout but stayed out of med school and went to law school instead.
2. Regarding TurnItIn, a woman was given a zero grade because TurnItIn flagged her as using AI to write the paper. She strongly maintains there was no AI generated content, but that she had used (the free version of) Grammarly to fix her grammar and punctuation. This does not violate the school’s anti-AI policy, but those involved found out later that Grammarly can indeed trigger false positives by TurnItIn and other software. Grammarly also confirmed that this is a known issue. After the fact, the school decided it needed to warn other students that Grammarly can cause false positives.
That doesn’t make much sense. People can buy Macs and not use them at school. But anyway, it’s a tool, and a highly important one at that. Banning all computer usage in post-secondary institutions or even elementary and high schools would simply be foolish.
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Schools should not allow Grammarly. They aren't accomplishing anything. The computer is.
And if Siri would master conjunctions like “and” we would be able to give her two commands at the same time.
Maybe you think spell check shouldn’t be allowed either. Cuz Apple’s check also does some of the same thing, but to a lesser extent. Same with MS Word.
But the point here is the school did in fact allow Grammarly usage (or rather, they didn’t ban its usage). However, they apparently did not fully grasp that it could wreak havoc with TurnMeIn analyses, as evidenced by the fact that they felt it necessary to warn other students of this issue after the fiasco that happened with that woman. Unfortunately, she did not have the benefit of that warning ahead of time.