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VictorMortimer said:

lotones said:

king editor the grate said:

Seems like that could cause heat concerns, and if done a few times, low battery levels. Pretty nifty though. 

yeah, also seems like a major security hole. But what I know...  🤔

Yep, it's a huge security hole.

What an incredibly bad idea.

MacPro said:

This is off-topic but related to AI (as in Apple Insider).  Is it just me, or does anyone else find it's PITA with this blog if you have been signed out for any reason, and you are trying to post or reply to a post, you get asked to sign in; however, once done, you are thrown completely out of the blog and have to manually navigate back to where you were. Good blogs sign you in and return you to where you left off.

darren mccoy said:

Why does this site hate X so much?

avon b7 said:

StrangeDays said:

Marvin said:

StrangeDays said:

Why do these all seem like silly tech demos to me? I have zero intention to ask an app to write a letter or create a fable. Or to build a grocery list for a meal I can’t be bothered to decide on myself. Oh but this is innovation and Apple is late to the game! lol

Someone at the following link used ChatGPT to make millions. It was via crypto marketing but ChatGPT made the code in a day:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/11/new-memecoin-77-million-market-cap-gpt-4/

It can write code templates for most things, including complex examples. There's a demo site here (it's limited in responses due to being free so needs refreshed):

https://gpt4free.io/chat/

It can be useful for getting started with a new development language. It can be asked the same type of questions that get asked on StackOverflow.

Example questions:
How do I setup a Rust development environment on Mac?
Write a Rust application to draw a graphic.
Write a Javascript app to get the current weather using a web API.
Build a database schema in SQLite for a book collection.

Eventually, these AI tools will be able to build full apps and games. Someone will be able to ask them to build a game like Call of Duty Mobile in Unity Engine and it will build a game foundation that would otherwise take months of work.

This will be useful for working with Swift. Swift frequently points out errors but isn't good at saying what the best practises are. It can migrate code from another language.

Apple doesn't have to make a chat app but Siri would be much more useful if it did things like this. People experiment with AppleScript and Shortcuts and these could be built with voice descriptions.

Siri, build a Shortcut that gives me directions to my next Calendar event and sends a text if I'm late.
Siri, give me a list of my unread emails in order of importance.

As an enterprise software engineer for Fortune 100s I can tell you that while code generators may be useful for syntax or boilerplate, it will not be building you the types of solutions we build. Why? Coding is the easy part! Coding is NOT engineering. Engineering is solving hard problem based on constraints and compromise. The details of which are unique and depend entirely on your business domain’s particulars. 

It’s like saying generating legal boilerplate will replace lawyers. Nope! The letters are the easy part. It’s the thought behind wrestling with law and legal theory which make lawyers valuable. Nor Word docs.

I think this is hard to understand for those outside engineering. No generator is going to replace the minds of people solving hard, unique problems, like John Carmack. 

I wouldn't call AI the definitive solution to all things, but as a tool, it would be foolish to not evaluate its use because it's more likely than not to provide valid assistance. 

What's your opinion of articles like this? 

https://www.neuralconcept.com/post/generative-design-the-role-of-ai-engineering-applied-use-cases

avon b7 said:

StrangeDays said:

Why do these all seem like silly tech demos to me? I have zero intention to ask an app to write a letter or create a fable. Or to build a grocery list for a meal I can’t be bothered to decide on myself. Oh but this is innovation and Apple is late to the game! lol

Are you speaking from experience or only articles on the technology?

If it is the latter I'd simply suggest you give it a try and see if it can be of use to you. 

I'll give you a practical example of a real world case that I've explained here before. 

I was preparing someone for an important interview (in English) for a UX position. We are talking about a candidate who is considered to be a the top of the league. 

Due to time constraints the candidate asked ChatGPT to draw up a list of interview questions and possible replies. Then the system was asked to go into more detail  on both the questions and replies.

I was presented with the finished results and was blown away. It would have taken me hours to draw up comparable results. 

To a native speaker some of the language would have sounded a bit too 'enthusiastic' but I was able to tone it down on one reading. To a non-native speaker, I doubt they would have noticed. 

We have spent months in the admission process for a paper in a specialist journal and the interview process was just something that popped up along the way. 

We decided the paper was more important given the timeframes involved but couldn't turn the interview down. ChatGPT saved us multiple hours in time and even more in logistics (for some things, face-to-face communication is still the best option). 

This is one small example but I'm sure most users are finding it more useful than not.