Re: Apple acknowledges AI errors in latest fix

On 2025-01-07 13:23, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-01-07 14:42:55 +0000, Nick Charles said:
 

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

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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

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

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

 Yep. AI is utter crap and simply the latest bandwagon for companies to jump onto by having "AI" in everything (who needs an AI kettle!?) to con fools into pointlesly upgrading since "Smart" things wasn't as successful as they'd hoped / hyped - no surprise there either. Same with idiotic "self-driving" cars. They'll never work properly either.
 

I think AI is exactly like a lot of new technology:
First, it's always "10 years away".
Next, someone gets it working a little bit...
...and it gets hyped to the sky.
Then, people notice that it isn't working as well as they thought it would from the hype...
...and the slamming begins.
That's where we are right now with AI.
:-)