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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As the general rule I feel the same about more or less all of the "AI" that is available to consumers from the likes of Google, OpenAI, etc.

It just seems more like a different way to do things with digital assistants or search engines that we have already been able to do for years.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

IMHO, they have pretty different use cases. For example, I can’t use a search engine to compose things.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

As a normal user, I don't find Ai useful.

Like, anybody's, for much of anything other than generating fever-dreams and Plex art.

code, tho.

Bash scripts, maybe but, it's not necessary for me.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

It's almost like siri already does what people want it to, and anything beyond that is a waste of time and resources

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

Much like many of us see no value in apple products.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Genmoji is a waste of space. The image generation is really bad (but then again, most of these platforms are). The writing tools are mediocre. About all that is moderately useful is that Siri seems a little better and processing commands.

If they want to start charging for this, I’m out.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If they want to start charging for this, I’m out.

I’m not sure why they would charge for it, most of it happens on-device.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

True, but the RnD ain’t cheap. And, if everyone else starts charging (as I am sure they eventually will), Apple will follow.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

That’s why Apple charges an arm and a leg for RAM.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 14 hours ago

Good to see Apple or continuing in their vein of having the worst implementation of an assistant product.

[–] Darc@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago

I appreciate the summaries on my notifications. Some of my people text a book every time.

[–] bizza@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried it one time, and it's just as "slop" as the rest of generative AI. CEOs have no taste

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 21 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

CEOs have no ~~taste~~ clue

Techbro CEOs are especially susceptible to the hypetrain and then want it implemented somehow, despite the tech not living up to the imaginary magic bullet they got from their superficial info.

[–] Oaksey@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It still needs to learn. I'm personally trying to opt out of it watching everything I do, will have to be some pretty serious benefits for me to revert.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

How long does it take to learn? It should be able to scan all of my files locally and I should be able to search for songs by lyrics or images by description and metadata locally. It supposedly has GitHub copilot like functionality in xcode...

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Probably worth noting, this survey was taken before 18.2 went live with a ChatGPT integration, image generation, etc.

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh, good point

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even with integrations, a lot of the automatic replies basically boil down to “yes, thanks” and “no thank you” to every text. It isn’t even like… A longer message. It’s just two or three words, tops. If I’m going to use AI to write my texts, it’s going to be for something longer than a “yes lol” text.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Agreed.

IMHO, the only truly useful thing is writing tools and Siri being able to query ChatGPT for complex questions instead of telling people to pull out their phone and search the web.

The stuff everyone was actually interested in is likely in 18.4. On-screen awareness, integration with installed apps, contextual replies, etc.

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[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

As the owner of a 13 Mini; what’s that?

We didn’t get anything at all from 18.1. There is literally nothing on my phone to tell me that it exists.

However, I do have it on both of my Macs, and have yet to do anything with it. I’m not in any hurry to bother either.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I just recently moved from 13 mini to 16, other than screen size you’re not missing much.

[–] Chr0nos1@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

18.1 has some minor things, but the big ones are in 18.2. You will probably still not use them, but until you update, you probably won't see them.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No, Apple Intelligence simply does not exist on any iPhone below a 15 Pro.

[–] Chr0nos1@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Apologies, I missed that he said he had a 13.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 day ago (27 children)

I feel like this can be generalized to AI in general for most people. I still don't see much usefulness or quality in output in the scenarios where I've been exposed to AI LLMs.

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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 120 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They need to release Apple Strength and Apple Dexterity to make the experience more complete

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[–] Juice260@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

I went into settings on my phone and disabled it immediately

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