Re: Apple acknowledges AI errors in latest fix

<Nick Charles> wrote:

On 1/7/2025 3:04 AM, Chris wrote:

 
The BBC have reported several issues with wildly wrong AI-generated news
summaries over the last few weeks. Apple has now said that the Apple
Intelligence features are in "beta" and will be "clarified" in a future
update.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge93de21n0o

 
Lots of "AI" companies have/will be admitting to errors.  "AI" is
nowhere near ready to always answer questions correctly.

Agree.

For that reason - and many others - I ignore "AI" anything.  I will read
and make my own conclusions.   I don't need a digital Magic 8 Ball to
tell me what to do.

Used appropriately things like chatgpt can be very useful and speed up some
tasks efficiently. I do use it for work on occasion. The problems come when
used without human supervision/involvement.

Is AppInt going to be a massive white elephant? At the moment it's
certainly discouraging me from upgrading my phone rather than the other way
around.

 
"AI" in general is already a white elephant.  Billions of dollars
invested with NO return at all.  Microsoft has even given instructions
on how to change the (originally dedicated) "Copilot" key on new Windows
PC keyboards to a different (actually useful) function of your choice.

Copilot has been incredibly useful for coding. A lot of software
development revolves around googling for solutions and copilot has made
that much quicker.

And of course, there was the "Windows Recall" spyware disaster last
year.   It was quite amusing to watch MS backpedal on that.
 
"AI" is now the biggest hype ever, surpassing "Y2K" 28 years ago.  Yes,
28 years ago.  It started in 1997.

Y2K wasn't hype. A lot of work went into it becoming a non-event.