Re: AI: "Apple Intelligence" - personal and private + ChatGPT 4o

On 2024-06-11 12:09:40 +0000, Alan Browne said:

On 2024-06-10 20:35, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-06-10 21:10:58 +0000, Alan Browne said:

On 2024-06-10 16:55, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-06-10 18:44:43 +0000, Alan Browne said:

 Apple announce their AI as "Apple Intelligence" with the emphasis on _personal_ and _private_.
 Integrated of course across Apple apps.  (... and 3rd party via App Intents API).
 Strong "action" oriented commands.
 AI will be on device for most processes.
 Private Cloud Compute for loads that can't be done on device - using Apple Silicon based servers.  No storage of your data.
Independent 3rd party source code verification.
 Siri to get AI - and boy does she need it.  (Recent use has come up with a lot of flaws).  Also remembers the recent context in Siri as well as your cross app context over time.
 Writing tools for various apps to rewrite messages (such as a mail message) in different ways.  Grammar checking, tone, etc.  Auto TL;DR summary generator, etc. and so on.
 Reading tools to summarize incoming e-mails with relevant content.
 Emoji generator (text what you want, it gens an "emoji" like illustration.  (silly fun).
 ChatGPT 4o integration w/o an account.  If you have a ChatGPT account, then "paywall" features will be accessible as well...
 (As soon as the Keynote mentioned ChatGPT - Apple stock shot up).
 Looking forward it.  Need devices compatible with the latest OS' of course.
 Ref: WWDC - 2024 - Keynote (YouTube).

 And *nobody* even knows why or what they would want the useless crap actually for ... the geek brigade just want it so big tech is happy to add it to everything and charge you more for doing it.  :-\
 Yet more pointless gimmick "features" added while still not fixing all the annoying bugs.

 I recently read the Ken Follett book, "The Armour of Light" and it mentioned the Luddite uprising against industrialization.
 You were first to come to mind!

 "Nobody" was an intended exaggeration. The point being that 95%+ of people do not know nor care what AI is, and they will never knowingly use it nor want to use it.

 99.9% of people will be using it without really "knowing" it.  It will be deeply embedded into the user experience.
 Just Siri remaining in context for follow up queries or instructions will be a huge leap.  (Goldfish memory days will end...)
 

 Apple needs to concentrate on the usability and fixing the existing annoying bugs (some of which have been there since OS X first created!) rather than continually adding gimmicks that only a tiny niche number of users will ever know about or use.  :-\

 Agree Apple need to fix things - indeed stop breaking things that worked fine but they tend to dumb down or make needlessly obfuscated (Settings in Mac OS).
 But adding features is where they have to go to keep relevant and abreast of the competition if not passing it.

AI is not a "feature". It's just another useless bandwagon-jumping gimmick to sell yet another new phone to stupid people. Thankfully the silliness can (reportedly) be turned off ... yet something else I need to include on the growing "turn off" list for  on every device I set up for people.  :-(