Re: apple intelligence not so intelligent

On 2025-01-17 15:21:22 +0000, Rick said:

On 1/17/2025 12:38 AM, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-01-17 00:48:49 +0000, Rick said:

On 1/16/2025 6:55 PM, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-01-16 22:18:10 +0000, Rick said:

On 1/16/2025 4:15 PM, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-01-16 16:02:46 +0000, badgolferman said:
 

Apple has come under intense scrutiny for rolling out an underbaked
AI-powered feature that summarizes breaking news — while often
butchering it beyond recognition.

<snip>
 So, no different to any other idiotic AI nonsense. They should all be avoided by any sane person because they're all just useless, over-hyped crap that they are. Hopefully it will be just another quickly gone tech fad.

 AI is nothing more than software, which means that, like any other software program, it is only as good as it the way it is programmed.

 And hence why so-called "Artifical Intelligence" is not actually intelligence of any kind. It's simpl;y a computer program doing what it has been programmed to do. It does NOT "learn" and it does NOT "think", and it can never do either of those things.
  

I agree that a lot of AI isn't very good (and Apple is clearly on that list), but from the limited testing I have done, I think certain more mature LLM products like ChatGPT and Copilot are actually quite useful when used properly.

 Not really. ChatGPT has numerous issues as well.

 That's why I say "when used properly".

 You can use it as "properly" as you like, but the entire idea is massively flawed, so it will never work properly at all. AI is simply useless, over-hyped crap that all the idiot tech companies are jumping on the bandwagon of as the latest fad.

 It's no more "massively flawed" than any other software or programming - because that's all AI is.  It is just software - written by and for humans - and it is up to each person to assess how much if any benefit to derive from it.  You've assessed that it's useless to you and that's fine.  Many people do derive perceived benefits from it, and that's fine for them.  And you can call them "idiot" tech companies if you want, but that just sounds like envy, as many of those companies are doing quite well and will likely continue to do so.  IF AI is just a fad, as you suggest, it will ultimately fizzle out, but as someone with more than 40 years of IT experience, I actually see it as the natural and normal evolution of software development.

The companies jumping on the bandwagon to include AI in everything were already successful before the AI fad and most will continue to be successful after it hopefully becomes a footnote in history (alongside self-driving cars).
The companies that create the AI software are currently successful simply because all the other companies are stupidly jumping on the bandwagon, but as has been seen numerous times before, that bubble can quickly burst.