libertyandfree

Xed said:

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

Wow you seem to be the rare breed since I do not use it either since it makes so many errors.  I expect Siri to be able to accurately record commands and words at a low error rate of 1-2% but my experience is that’s it’s about 10x higher than that and that makes it slightly better than worthless.   It’s very disappointing that after all these years Siri is still not very good, seems like it was a project Apple lost interest in which is a shame since they had a large lead at one point.   Hopefully with Apple’s new committed to AI Siri may finally become what it could have been all along and even better. 

blastdoor said:

libertyandfree said:

NYC362 said:

blastdoor said:

That roadmap implies no m3 Mac mini. I wonder if there will also be no m3 Mac Studio and if maybe the Mac Studio will get an m4 faster than we’d otherwise expect. And if all that turns out to be true, I wonder if the explanation might be that the first 3nm process from TSMC had yield issues, so maybe Apple wants to move to N3E ASAP

I wonder if we might see an intro of an M4 Max and Ultra for the Mac Studio and Mac Pro at WWDC.   Introduce them on June 10th, available on June 21 or 28 (which is a bit longer than the normal announcement to availability span for Apple)... that's 10 or 11 weeks away.  Considering the relative small numbers of units needed compared to MacBook Pros, this could be a possibility.  
 
Also, putting an M3 Max and Ultra chip into a Studio in June, really makes no sense as the processors (at least for the Max) as it would already be eight months old.  

LOL, this is never going to happen.  The M4 is not that far along and the basic vanilla M4 would be the first one out of the fab due to less complexity compared to the Pro/Max/Ultra. Fabs rarely if ever start with the more advanced chips and then work backwards. Moreover, if the M4’s are ready now one has to question how many “AI” enhancements it actually has.   

 I would imagine Apple will have the vanilla M4 pretty much ready to go to production but it will not have much in terms of significant AI enhanced features that will be added to the Pro/Max/Ultra models in which I can see each iteration being more AI capable.  This also allows Apple to continue working on further AI enhancement capabilities that will be part of the Ultra or Max. 

I agree it is unlikely to happen in June, but never say never. The max and ultra are very low volume relative to other chips in apples lineup so it’s not crazy to think they could come earlier in the cycle than was the case for m1 and m2. 

Heck, m3 max was out at the same time as m3, so there is that precedent. 

If for some reason the M4 max was released so soon I doubt it would have compelling AI capabilities since it seems Apple has been a little late to the AI party.  

 Interesting but nothing more than R&D at this time.   Maybe we see something come out in another 5 years.  I would think Apple would rather buy a robotics company that is significantly further along than they are.   Heck why not buy a robotics company since they wasted $10B on the Apple Car which made a little more sense as the prior rumours of an Apple branded TV set. 

 I will be shocked if Apple has a massive overhaul of Siri and iOS with AI features this summer since they seem to be late to the AI party and these features do not get into released software and hardware in a short period of time.  I suspect the 2025 series of processors (A and M series) will be the first ones to have significantly improved AI hardware and it seems unrealistic to believe this year’s A18 processor (which is already designed and in pre production) will have anything more than just core and clock increases. Of course Apple will hype any AI related enhancements to the moon but I suspect 2025 will be the year we see significant implementation of AI in Apples devices. 

Xed said:

This isn't a criticism per se, but this does read like a cheap attempt by this single-plane airline out of the Maldives to gain some press off of the Apple Vision Pro.

What is the point of this comment?  Sounds like you are against marketing which every single successful company in the world does. Even Apple does marketing.