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Chris Law · 2024-10-31T14:33:20+00:00

Did anyone else get slightly irked at the endless references and constant top billing Apple Intelligence got in all 3 product announcements? I understand pushing it marketing-wise, but for one thing, it's like whiplash after they were quite sober on AI and machine learning and then it's apparently the most important thing Macs will be used for? Now, maybe I'm missing something, trapped as I am on the rapidly crumbling ex-country known as Britain (meaning I only have access to the non-generative ApIn features as of now), but leaving my bitterness over that aside excepting the innovation in the backend (Private Cloud Compute and all that), I have to say the Apple Intelligence featureset ... well, it's underwhelming. There's not a single thing that hasn't been offered already, except I guess Genmoji. There's also the question of the ethical quagmire that LLMs and generative features grew out of. Has Apple commented on this, on whether they addressed the problematic aspects of the datasets used for training their models? I missed it if they did, and frankly I'm skeptical if they even could at this point - but if anyone has the resources to actually do this stuff (more) ethically, Apple does. Rather than all this breathless promising followed by staggered delivery, I would have respected them far more if they had stuck to what seemed like their original strategy of waiting until the AI hypesteria died down - until maybe they could bring a single fresh idea to this frontier besides Genmoji and a more secure way of handling user PI, which is you know, cool but I would have hoped that was the bare minimum for our newly "intelligent" Apple. At least Siri will maybe come close to delivering the experience we were sold on back in 2011, I guess? Maybe it's just me, but did anyone wait until they had access to Apple Intelligence to try out language or generative AI features? I can't see it. I'm not saying the integration won't be useful, I'm just saying it doesn't warrant top billing in the value proposition of Macs and iOS devices. I'd be really interested to hear what you guys are thinking post the "exciting week for the Mac" (I loved the hardware that was announced on the whole)

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This story on the BBC website yesterday about a garbled transcription can’t help public perception of the unreliability of AI-derived services.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l1kpz3w32o

“Egg freckles?”

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