Whether the new Apple Intelligence features are useful depends on who you ask. But I do greatly appreciate that inference is performed on-device. I think that’s a step in the right direction.
Oh I totally agree! If this was cloud based, that would be a privacy nightmare
Not to mention data and memory intensive.
The first and only thing I want to know about Apple Intelligence is how to turn it off.
Oh good, I’m using English (UK), so it won’t work to begin with.
It will, starting with 18.2 which is to be released next week.
If I was a rich person and I trusted Apple, I would switch to iPhone for this.
We’ll get an open source, entirely local version for GrapheneOS eventually though, I imagine
Let’s hope so!
I’m somewhat tickled by the snippets of adverts I’ve seen for both Samsung and Apple’s new phones that mention “AI”. None of what I’ve seen has actually explained why it’s a selling point. Classic cart before the horse stuff.
Ultimately I’m not the target market for flagship phones as the price has spiraled out of control to the point where I cannot fathom how it can be justified for such a mundane device.
Similarly I have no clue why my new work laptop comes equipped with a dedicated “copilot” key.
Just marketing nonsense. There are three ways to present AI features:
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A generational improvement on things that have been available for 20+ years. This is not sexy and does not make for good advertising. For example: grammar checking, natural-speech processing (Siri), automatic photo tagging/sorting.
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A new type of usage that nobody cares about because they’ve lived without it just fine up to now.
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Straight-up lie to people about what it can do, using just enough weasel words to keep yourself out of jail.
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I’m somewhat tickled by the snippets of adverts I’ve seen for both Samsung and Apple’s new phones that mention “AI”. None of what I’ve seen has actually explained why it’s a selling point. Classic cart before the horse stuff.
Yup, in many cases AI is a solution looking for a problem
It’s more like a problem avoiding the existing solution
I like the summaries of notifications. This way, I don’t have to guess what an email is about from the first few words which usually are “Hi mbirth, I hope this email reaches you well”.
The rest of the Apple Intelligence is stuff I can live without. However, Image Playground is nice to create contact pictures or some funny sticker. The newer proofing and grammatical suggestions are nice for second languages. So, it’s not all useless.
This for me is probably the only thing I’ll find useful from it. I’d like to know at a quick glance what the long email is about (but that’s what the subject line is for?), and if there was anything specific that I’m going to need to take action on later.
But the idea of AI “cleaning up” my writing is dreadful.
You’re holding it wrong.
