Re: The facts show Apple is two generations behind Android in AI (artificial intelligence)

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2024-07-20 11:07:59 +0000, -hh said:
 

On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:

"Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been
since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024
during the Pixel 8 launch. With Google's Pixel 9 family due to be announced
in August, Apple's iPhone will be two generations behind Android's AI
efforts before it has even left the Cupertino stage."
 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2024/07/18/apple-iphone-16-pro-max-apple-intelligence-ai-sales-demand-new-iphone/
 
 
 
What do you expect from a company whose advertising budget dwarfs R&D.

 
But how does it actually matter how far someone is "behind" when the
shiny new widget still isn't all that great, and doesn't actually
reliably provide meaningful productivity gains?
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Case in point, AI asked to render salmon swimming upstream:
 
 
<https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/yijd3c/they_asked_an_ai_engine_to_recreate_a_salmon/>
 

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Ignoring the fact that AI is utterly useless and nothing more than
another fad  gimmick ...

Well, it may be a fad .. or perhaps not (at least for certain niches).
Real point is that it is still formative and immature today.

Apple has a tendency to come in "late" and leapfrog
everyone else with a much better version. When the iPhone was
released, everyone else had to quickly play catch-up and lazily
copied the iPhone (and many still do) with a sub-quality knock-off.

Pretty much what I was alluding to:  having an “early lead” to market when
the tech change hasn’t adequately matured isn’t really worth that much: 

thus, it is  far wiser to let it continue to mature without putting its
warts out on public display where it can only created a poor opinion of it:
use that developmental time to find where it actually makes a difference
(eg productivity) before commercially launching it .. which is yes, pretty
typical of how Apple tends to operate.


-hh