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Apple is in a tough spot with AI. For some new entrant they can show off some whiz bang demo and if it gets it right the pundits cheer. If there are some misses they get ignored.

Apple is not a new entrant. Apple has well over a billion users who trust Apple, a lot. Parents hand their kids iPads with all sorts of kids games trusting that this is OK. If an iPad with AI just once started showing children something inappropriate that would be all over the news.

On the other hand, Apple is famous and has a number of successes to point to so people expect a lot of them.

The next version of macOS does contain a chatbot, sort of. Gary at MacMost posted a video showing how to use Shortcuts to make a chatbot that queried either the completely on-device AI, Apple’s own AppleAI on Apple servers, or ChatGPT. Apparently, macOS ships with ~4GB of data needed for the on-device AI to call on.

Goven that they had at least a year of feedback from end users this likely has a host of small changes under the hood to remove bottlenecks, make it easier to build and support. Putting in an M4 or M5 will future proof it a little as well. Maybe someone else will make the screens?

I’m looking forward to this. I’ve had three demos of the current model. I’ll probably get this improved one.

I’m not critical of Apple for this. Generally, when Apple adds a feature it is to a core feature set. The clipboard has been around forever and so have ideas about improving it. If anything, I’m surprised it took Apple this long to add even this minimal functionality. 

Also, I suspect this doesn’t affect pro users as much as average users. I know about clipboard managers but I’m not an intensive enough user to look into getting one. However, now that it is part of the OS I might use it once a month or so.

anonymouse said:

lowededwookie said:

But 28% means the Apple Watch is still accurate 73% of the time.

Despite the wording in the article, I don't think this is what it means. I think it means something closer to it's off by an average of 28%, meaning it may never be entirely accurate, but could, for a crude example, vary from being off by 20%-36%. In any case, as a rough estimate, it's probably fine and as someone else pointed out above, in the end, the scale will tell you what you need to know.

I suspect that if they tracked one person it would be consistently off the same amount (either too high or too low). As a physicist I deal with measurements all the time. Noisy measurements are better than no measurements. 

I have my calorie target set to a certain value. I don’t much care what the number is. I just like to know that I’m reaching roughly the same level when I work out. I set it high enough that I have to strain a bit to achieve it.

chadbag said:

At my last job Inhad a Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128gb 1TB.  It was nice.  Unfortunately our work got moved to India and I’m no longer there.  I upgraded my i5 based 2017 iMac to a new Mac Mini M4 Pro with 24GB and 512GB and 4TB TB drive plugged in.  It’s super nice compared to the iMac.  

My question is how the Mac Studio M3 Ultra compares to the M4 Max version.   I’m trying to figure out the best case I can ask for once I get a new job (most likely remote).   I’m interested in relative performance differences.  I know the M3 Ultra is more expensive.   

There are a few reviews on YouTube you could watch. Generally, I think the M3 Ultra is what you want if you need lots of cores. The M4 Max is what you want if single core speed is more important.