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Tim Cook on Generative AI: 'We Have Advantages That Will Differentiate Us'
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You wouldn't believe how many times Siri told me it will get the web results from my phone when I asked Siri the time.
I don't believe anything good will come out of Apple based on their track record.
I'm assuming this was intentionally humorous, considering that complexity of common AI tasks such as LLMs correlates with the amount of RAM. Less RAM= slower processing or lower complexity.
He didn’t say they look alike. He said Apple copied flat design from Microsoft (windows 8) which surprisingly not a lot people seem to acknowledge.
I would suggest the AI race is only in its infancy.
Just because AI has captured all the attention the past 18 months doesn't mean that the race is even out of the crib yet.
Apple hasn't missed anything yet. Have patience.
WAI is just a hype train going to nowhere.
Leader and follower? Generative AI isn’t even ready for prime time yet. The first company to solve gen AI’s MANY problems will be the market leader. And no, Google, MS, OpenAI et al do not have fully baked AIs. They are toys with insane error rates that wouldn’t be acceptable if they came from a human.
Leader and follower? Generative AI isn’t even ready for prime time yet. The first company to solve gen AI’s MANY problems will be the market leader. And no, Google, MS, OpenAI et al do not have fully baked AIs. They are toys with insane error rates that wouldn’t be acceptable if they came from a human.
They're going to retire Siri who is now the target of (justified) jokes and ridicule...
Tim: "Meet our new Apple Intelligent Navigator... named 'Steve'... Steve knows what you need before you do. Steve knows you're holding it wrong. Steve knows who's a bozo"
To shareholders: "Steve will bring back Apple's reality distortion field"
Tim: "Meet our new Apple Intelligent Navigator... named 'Steve'... Steve knows what you need before you do. Steve knows you're holding it wrong. Steve knows who's a bozo"
To shareholders: "Steve will bring back Apple's reality distortion field"
The benefit will be in speed, security and privacy thanks to on-device processing. It's not really a secret, Apple are shouting about the M3 MacBook Air being the 'best AI computer' based on external reports of what constitutes an 'AI computer' and I reckon M4 will have significantly more Neural Engines than M3 to further improve local AI performance.
99% of companies use a flat design now. Google uses a flat design. The current UI trend for graphics, UIs, and websites is a flat design. Also, big, bold, easy to read fonts. It’s the current design trend. And Microsoft wasn’t the trend setter. In fact, they’ve been far behind everyone else. And what they’ve done until very recently has looked very awful. This is just silly. Microsoft didn’t create flat design. Nobody wants to mimic the visual diarrhea that Microsoft has created with Windows. Nothing about macOS resembles any design cues from Windows 8. If anything, Windows 11 is starting to look like macOS. And do you even remember the aqua UI from the original version of OS X? That was back in 2001 when Microsoft was still on XP. Apple was way ahead of the times. If you want to talk about the factual stealing of UIs then we can discuss the original Apple/Xerox debacle. Short of that, spare me the revisionist history. Nobody has the energy for gaslighting in here.
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Are you in the U.S.? I ask because I'm U.S.-based and never had this issue. Siri has always told me the time in the hundreds of times I've asked over the years. Even with the reported recent HomePod bug in time reporting I had no problems with getting the time.
I know people have issues with Siri, but it's been excellent for me in the 8 years I've been using it.
Roll back 4 decades and the whole world was talking about “Expert Systems” replacing skilled humans. A few companies, with PhD’s on staff were actually doing it - but it was really hard. But so much of it in the 80’s was just hyped-up sales talk.
Roll back a further decade and all of computing academia was talking about Artificial Intelligence like it was just around the corner.
50 years later and I feel like we still haven’t turned that corner. Properly.
So we are to believe the company that can't make Siri work worth a damn is going to be an AI leader? Call me skeptical.
It will be in the product names: aiPhone, aiPad, aiMac. Or maybe M(AI)cBook Pro, Air, etc.
The advantage apple has is on board neural engine on pretty much every device since the iPhone 11. They can push hard on the software side and know that every iPhone sold new in the past what... 5 years will run AI workloads that use the onboard neural engine.
Which means any software dev knows they can get a significant user base if they write AI software for iPhone, as any iPhone 5 years old or newer can run it. Android? Crapshoot. PCs? Don't make me laugh.
I remember when I hear how far ahead Apple was with Siri. That didn't go so hot.
A month before apple announced the iPhone, Research In Motion and microsoft were "far ahead compared to Apple" in mobile phones, I do believe Apple back then would also have believed themselves to be ahead.