DAalseth

spliff monkey said:

AI could be a useful tool for certain tasks, but trying to cram it into literally everything has turned the otherwise useful tool into hyper advanced spyware.  Overpromising capabilities and features has lead to disappointment for corporate users who rely on accurate information and for the general user, we are now awash in AI slop. AI creativity is dull, boring, predictable and unworthy of interest accept by the dullest and most boring people who lack imagination and standards. 

Apple has the right idea all along about how to approach "AI", as a tool that can streamline tedious tasks, but everyone else has been milked dry of their billions by snake oil salesmen promising the replace humans and human creativity and they're just beginning to see that they will only be met with disappointment. 

Dead right. I’m fine with a ‘smart’ system for photo editing, checking grammar, but they are pushing it so far beyond what I need or even want it’s not just nuts, it’s offensive. Use it where it’s useful, but most systems and processes do not need AI of any kind. 

Steve Humiston said:

Language interpreters are not really "AI". They are incredible tools to decipher language into something a computer can "look up" or "enable" for you.
Real artificial intelligence will be huge for mankind. When a computer takes up it's own interest to solve issues for itself, then the world will get kind of interesting.

Very true. there was a report just recently about how AI cannot really think, cannot “reason”. https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/12/apples-study-proves-that-llm-based-ai-models-are-flawed-because-they-cannot-reason They are useful for some things, byt the hype by the con men and grifters holding the stage is badly overselling what they can do. In the long run they may sour many people on the concept when they find out that they can’t do what they were told they would. 

For me, I’m just going to make sure most of ther Apple Intelligence stuff that  starts coming out next week is off. I haven’t been taken in by the hype and so far I’ve seen little if any of it that is supposed to do anything I want. The title used the word ‘useful’. None of the previews have suggested anything that I would find useful. 

From the sound of it the Chief People Officer position was being folded back into the department it came from. This person would have been first in line to get the spot. But with it gone, not so much. Actually maybe that’s why Surface left too, in response to the reorganization and the position going away. 

Marvin said:

DAalseth said:

For the record I almost never see anyone paying with their watch or phone. Here in Southern British Columbia near Vancouver, it’s practically all chip card.

There is risk in this trend of making the phone the single point of failure for everything and it becomes very apparent when traveling when there are boarding passes, room bookings, taxi apps, banking apps and so on. The screen not turning on, a battery failure, network failure or lost/stolen device can cause a lot of problems for people where separate points of failure have less impact.

Actually that’s one of my big concerns. A wallet with a chip card never has a dead battery, 

Well that’s just wonderful. 😐
Last month I uninstalled my Wallet app because it was just taking up space. Only one of my cards even was compatible with it. When I tried to use it only one out of four stores recognized it, and that one was the local Apple dealer so I suppose they kinda had to. So if a car rental place tries to give me a virtual token for my wallet app, I’ll pass. Same with a room key. (For the record I almost never see anyone paying with their watch or phone. Here in Southern British Columbia near Vancouver, it’s practically all chip card.)

danielito said:

Sure, Donny, that happened.

That was my first thought, Why believe him at all?.