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  • Apple integrates Apple Intelligence-powered Writing Tools into new iWork updates

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    DAalseth said:
    The most notable update is powered by Apple Intelligence. Users on Mac, iPad, and iPhone can now make text edits using Writing Tools directly in their documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

    Nope. I AM a writer
    Those that can DO
    Those that can’t use AI
    That’s quite alright. There are still buggy whip and carriage makers, too. Let us know what heritage museum you choose to showcase your ancient art. Make sure you writing materials are not too close to the blacksmith demonstration…paper and that kind of heat don’t mix well!

    Please forgive the gibe. Seriously, there are those that have the skill to write well but the vast majority do not and will use AI for writing as needed. For those that enjoy writing, keep on keeping on. There is no reason to stop doing what you love.
    williamlondonStabitha_Christiedecoderring

  • Apple integrates Apple Intelligence-powered Writing Tools into new iWork updates

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    Had they release this two years ago, I might have been impressed. Today, it is very meh bordering on instilling a feeling that Apple is lost–no vision and little execution. Their hardware is amazing, but the competition is closing the gap. Apple leadership was caught flat-footed by the popularity and usefulness of generative AI LLM’s even though Apple has been in the AI business for years. And this is with LLM’s being a the very beginning of the usefulness cycle. The only thing I knowingly use Apple Intelligence for is as a bad but convenient interface to ChatGPT to do the work that needs to be done. Although I mostly use the full ChatGPT app as stand-alone or via the “Work with…” functionality because of the very small context size allowed by the Apple Intelligence interface. 

    Now there are MCP servers accessing Apple’s service (so far just Apple Maps and Apple Notes). When the MCP server gets full access to all of the iCloud services via MCP and OpenAI starts supporting it for ChatGPT and their API for use with automation tools, I start having fewer reasons to continue to buy Apple hardware. 

    With that said, I still have hopes that Apple will get privacy protecting locally running LLM’s and actually provide the connections to our apps and data. If not, then they are opening the door for cloud-based AI’s to continue to take their business to the browser (not much need for Windows or MacOS at that point) or for those looking for privacy, running open-source models on local Linux hardware. 

    Time will tell, but it is not looking 
    williamlondon