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The rushed launch of Apple Intelligence was a debacle, reminding Apple it should focus on readiness rather than quickly appeasing shareholders.
Well . . . yeah. All generative AI is awful. It’s a scam wrapped in hype surrounded by an insult.
💯 The best way it was described to me was “it’s a parlor trick.” And I’ve started to use that phrasing ever since.
I use it all the time
I do too, as someone who understands what it actually is, what it’s useful for, and what its limitations are. The issue is every company shoving it down users’ throats as future AGI/something LLMs will never achieve.
I feel like most of the idiots who say AI is trash use it as a Google alternative, which is it not for.
I have a feeling that’s how Douglas Adams may have described it
I wouldn't say that. It's a tool like anything else. You don't say a hammer is useless because it's really bad at driving screws no matter how much your terrible coworker keeps insisting that she just hits the screws in with the hammer and it's fine. I learned programming very quickly with ChatGPT and I use LLMs all the time for help with programming. They're also good for proofreading, learning new languages, and a few other things. The hype is exaggerated but these things are quite useful when used correctly.
It's the only thing it is helpful for. Just for coding homework, and nothing else.
Username checks out! :D Yeah, it has some narrow use cases which aren't the worst thing ever. If it wasn't destroying the entire tech industry and to some extent the global economy with utter lies and deceit it might be kind of okay sometimes.
It’s somehow less useful than Siri, which… fuuuuuck.
Right? Instead of "I can show you some web results on your phone" every time it's now "Would you like to ask ChatGPT?" every time. Barf.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t get that!”
Seriously. I used to actually use Siri.
I realized this yesterday when I went through the manual process of unlocking my phone and looking for another LLM app to ask a question.
I don’t even trust Siri anymore to open an app.
Don’t get me started on music. I used to be able to say “Hey Siri, play this whole album” or “play that song” and it would play the whole album.
She’s absolutely useless.
Same!!! I used to tell people that Siri was good at what it’s intended to do. Ask it to set a reminder or timer or ask a basic question and it’s good.
But then Alexa came along and changed the paradigm for what voice assistants could do and so the questions to Siri became more complex. And it fell over quickly.
Even today I asked it “does HomeKit support sprinkler systems?” And I got the dreaded “I can send you web results if you ask from your iPhone.”
Completely useless.
Don’t get me started on music. I used to be able to say “Hey Siri, play this whole album” or “play that song” and it would play the whole album.
What? I literally did this an hour ago in the car.
“Siri, play (artist name)’s latest album.”
*proceeds to play requested album
Am I missing something?
I meant like when there’s a random song playing from shuffle, I used to be able to tell Siri “play this album” or “what album is this song from” and she would play the full album or tell me what album the song came from. No longer knows how to do that and tells me something about not knowing how to do that.
Works fine if you have Apple Music, without it Siri just can't do anything anymore even though it used to work fine with local device music.
Next version of Apple Intelligence: Rollback to Siri, but with "I Am Genius." added to the end of every answer.
I've yet to actually find out what it's useful to me for. I don't need shit synopses of things.
quickly
That’s the problem. It wasn’t quick. If it had been released quickly and been a failure, that would be one thing. But to hype it and hype it and pre-sell it into new devices for 9 months only THEN to release a failure… now that’s fucked up. Apple hardware has been crushing it for years. Software is a mess. Services couldn’t piss themselves if their pants were on fire.
Is this just an opinion post or am I missing something?
Apple intelligence does have some useful things, like showing a summary of each mail or message.
But I will not argue here. Nothing is as black and white as you make it sound.