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  • Is Apple Intelligence artificial?

    RobJMurphyRobJMurphy
    Eventually the world, IT and media will wake up to AI being another self-sustaining literal artifice. It is not Skynet or Colossus (showing my age). AI as proposed by the likes of OpenAI, Google, Microsoft et al is yet another opportunity to pull data from subscribers. In this case it goes far beyond shopping history or web searches, delving in to the very fundament of a person. Their dreams, ambitions, projections, desires, weirdness - all become digitised, documented, harvested and no doubt, distributed and monetised.

    Case in point - recently a local barista was discussing with me his idea for a new business opportunity and mentioned that he'd run it through Chat GPT for analysis - I have no idea how, what questions he posed etc. I was just amazed that he had subjected his ideas and plans to an unproven technology which could quite easily, inadvertently, make those plans widely accessible to the rest of the ChatGPT subscriber base. Someone else picks up the inference, takes action and suddenly yon barista's dream and ambitions are usurped. Your AI dollars at work.

    The great 1992 movie Sneakers put it well:
    'There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!'

    It's still true and modern AI seems another attempt to dehumanise us by asking us now to give up our creativity and thought processes to the machine.

    Apple Intelligence - using the data you hold within your personal device and using that in productive and instructive manner seems more akin to what most believe AI should purport to offer. The reality of modern day AI, not Apple Intelligence, smacks vastly different.
    dewmejas99williamlondonAlex1Nwatto_cobrajony0

  • Apple updates 'Magic' accessories to USB-C, included with M4 iMac

    RobJMurphyRobJMurphy
    Why can't we have the Magic Keyboard (TouchID) without numeric keypad with black keys? Why? Why? Why? 😭
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Window Tiling in macOS Sequoia is Apple's third try to fix a problem

    RobJMurphyRobJMurphy
    Moom and Spaces for the win! (unless Apple offer more customisation in Window Tiling, but I doubt they will).
    williamlondon

  • Apple in talks to run ads on Apple TV+ shows

    RobJMurphyRobJMurphy
    Don't do it Apple! You already have more wealth than Croesus, you don't need to do this. Don't alienate your customers pandering to the demand to fall in line with the rest of them or generate growth constantly. You can grow in other directions than just greedy accumulation to appease the markets and the shareholders (I am a shareholder). Of all the companies who could take the moral high ground...
    baconstanglollivergatorguywatto_cobra

  • Apple hasn't leaked a MacBook Pro with Dynamic Island

    RobJMurphyRobJMurphy
    'the design doesn't allow for such sensors in the thin display, not yet' - can't the tetraprism architecture in the iPhone 15 Pro Max lend itself to this? 
    watto_cobra