Apple Intelligence, Apple Intelligence, Apple Intelligzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Must be the result of the “fixer” being assigned to the AI/Siri group. She clearly saw issues with the roll out.

 

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I wonder who is responsible for dropping the Siri ball? I remember Renee Ritchie wondering if a SiriOS was just around the corner almost a decade ago. Did Apple realize privacy constraints and hardware limitations meant a true Siri assistant wasn’t possible and didn’t invest until hardware caught up? Was rebuilding Siri from scratch 5 years ago not an option or too expensive? Did Cook get distracted with cars and VR? Anyway, it’s very disappointing, as I looked forward to a conversational Siri long term and at least a better Siri near term. Maps eventually worked out - hoping Siri will too. (Wonder if they’ll remove the made for Apple Intelligence from their product marketing.)

 

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New story at the NYT says the expected 18.4 Siri features coming this Fall. Also some explanation as to why the tardiness. Seems to be blame to go in all directions including Maestro who shot down a larger AI server budget by 50%.

Anyway seems people are happy with Federighi and Rockwell taking over.

 

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Was listening to a recent MacRumors podcast where they discussed a Bloomberg/Business Insider article. The article lays some of the blame on Federighi. He initially was one of the naysayers of AI about 5 years ago. Of course Jobs got it way earlier than them and is why he bought Siri.

 

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The interviews that Apple is doing sheds more light on why they didn’t do more with Siri and Apple Intelligence. Key point in all the interviews is that they had a working model and what they showed at WWDC 2024 wasn’t a stunt. This explains why Gruber was ostracized this year by Apple. His story was wrong if you believe Apple.

 

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Gruber's extrapolation might be wrong, but his key observation isn't: nobody outside of Apple was or has been shown a live demonstration of these Siri capabilities, during or since WWDC '24.

That’s a tough call as it infers Federighi and Jaws are flat out lying in the interviews.

 

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I thought apple would put Google’s LLM on their Private Cloud servers. The comment from Google about Google Cloud, gives me privacy concerns.

 

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Emphasis on capitalization and the last word of the phrase: 'Google cloud technology'

Google's tweet:


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ahh, very good!!

 

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Agreed. That's why OpenAI shouldn't be overlooked. They have access to all of the said resources no other company has. Altman has been a busy boy; If you can't compete on features, freeze out the competition with resources and make partnerships with companies that have deep pockets and massive government influence

I don’t know. I see Robots of all sorts needing massive AI needs - could be a vacuum, UAV delivery, or home assistant robot. CES was inundated with such “appliances”. Maybe there is a home hub that downloads the needed pieces of a large LLM that is suited for the appliances in your home. They get updated when the LLMs are updated.