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  • Apple's new Photos app will utilize generative AI for image editing

    Wesley HilliardWesley Hilliard
    gatorguy said:
    Android has had this feature already. 
    Interesting to see if this Apple one will be superior.
    To be clear, iPhone has this ability too. It's not an operating system level thing. Apps can provide the feature and even Apple's Photos app for Mac has a basic repair tool already.

    The Clean Up feature will be a more advanced model based on generative image processing -- which I believe is only available via apps like Adobe's and is not a part of Android's photo editing tools.
    The Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones use a generative AI feature called Magic Editor in the Google Photos app.  It uses generative AI to make edits like repositioning and/or resizing a subject, erasing elements, changing lighting and backgrounds, repair/replace gaps that occur during editing, and changing sky tones and color. 
    This is why words are important. Google might call those features AI but their base is ML, not generative image models. Google's ML for image processing may be superior to Apple's and that's a fair argument, but let's not confuse technologies.

    Google "AI" features are brand names applied to ML that has existed for over a decade. That ML has just gotten better. When I say AI, I don't mean the blanket marketing term, I mean local or large language models with generative capabilities, which were pioneered by OpenAI and used for LLMs like Bard.

    These are very separate, but Google has done consumers a terrible service by calling everything AI. It makes talking about this stuff very confusing because it makes differentiating between technologies more difficult and it serves to make Google look ahead at something and Apple behind -- which is the entire point of the misnomer.
    radarthekatbadmonk40domi

  • Apple's new Photos app will utilize generative AI for image editing

    Wesley HilliardWesley Hilliard
    paisleydisco said:
    Android has had this feature already. 
    Interesting to see if this Apple one will be superior.
    To be clear, iPhone has this ability too. It's not an operating system level thing. Apps can provide the feature and even Apple's Photos app for Mac has a basic repair tool already.

    The Clean Up feature will be a more advanced model based on generative image processing -- which I believe is only available via apps like Adobe's and is not a part of Android's photo editing tools.
    watto_cobra40domi

  • Apple Vision Pro a big hit in enterprise

    Wesley HilliardWesley Hilliard
    wdowell said:
    I think your headline of Vision Pro being a “big hit” is perhaps stretching reality a bit here.  For all we know the fortune 100 companies may have only bought a single device each to test - so that’s 50 units 
    I can see how you arrived at that conclusion, but, and I can't stress this enough, *that isn't how enterprise works*. A company doesn't just buy one. The comments he made throughout earnings made it clear, they are being bought and *used* in enterprise for development and work at these companies.

    It's a big deal.
    Alex1Nwilliamlondongregoriusmwatto_cobraFileMakerFeller

  • Apple Notes in iOS 18 looks to up the ante with Microsoft OneNote

    Wesley HilliardWesley Hilliard
    mike1 said:
    I really hope they separate the scanning capability from Notes.
    It really should be part of Camera. Open camera app, select scan, take pic (scan). Ask me what to do with it (like a screenshot does). Message, email, save to Photos or Files, save as Note etc. 
    I often need to send PDF scans of documents. I never need to save them as a note.
    Using this feature as a part of Notes adds a lot of unnecessary steps and time to the process, including deleting the unnecessary note I just created.
    There's an app for that!

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-scan-quick-scanner/id6477965455
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Apple's iOS 18 AI will be on-device preserving privacy, and not server-side

    Wesley HilliardWesley Hilliard
    Massiveattack87 said:
    What Apple is advertising of nothing more than what Google Pixel Phones already have which is dedicated Machine Learning hardware and ML models that just run on the phones to do things like time transcribing, image recognition, etc. 

    Nothing new. Just a marketing packaged by Apple as if it is a "breakthrough" feature.. 

    YAWN!!! 
    All of these features existed on iPhone before Google even invented a Pixel. On device ML models have always existed on iPhone. The Neural Engine enhanced how the worked with dedicated hardware in 2017.

    Apple is anything but late in this field. lol
    ihatescreennameswilliamlondonAlex1Ndanoxwatto_cobraroundaboutnow