This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
excluding comedy
Much like many of us see no value in apple products.
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.
It's almost like siri already does what people want it to, and anything beyond that is a waste of time and resources
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.
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.
True, but the RnD ain’t cheap. And, if everyone else starts charging (as I am sure they eventually will), Apple will follow.
That’s why Apple charges an arm and a leg for RAM.
I tried it one time, and it's just as "slop" as the rest of generative AI. CEOs have no taste
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.
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.
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...
I appreciate the summaries on my notifications. Some of my people text a book every time.
Good to see Apple or continuing in their vein of having the worst implementation of an assistant product.
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.
As a novice with little training, I've found AI to be helpful with running a server. Other than that, I depend on my own internet searches for info.
I feel the same way about AI as I felt about the older generation of smartphone voice assistants. The error rate remains high enough that i would never trust it to do anything important without double checking its work. For most tasks, the effort that goes into checking and correcting the output is comparable to the effort I would have spent to just do it myself, so I just do it myself.
They need to release Apple Strength and Apple Dexterity to make the experience more complete
Probably worth noting, this survey was taken before 18.2 went live with a ChatGPT integration, image generation, etc.
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.
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.
The only bit of excitement I've experienced about this, was when they announced it will be force-disabled in Europe, so I didn't have to turn it off myself
I went into settings on my phone and disabled it immediately
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.
I just recently moved from 13 mini to 16, other than screen size you’re not missing much.
I have a mini specifically because I didn’t want a surfboard for a phone.
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.
No, Apple Intelligence simply does not exist on any iPhone below a 15 Pro.
Apologies, I missed that he said he had a 13.
