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Rogue01 said:

Xed said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Apple needs to add the other big ones, Gemini, Grok etc

As they clearly are not capable to do it themselves.

Apple really needs to shake thing up.

Why exactly don't you think Apple can do it?

Because for 14 years, they have done nothing to improve Siri.  So don't hold your breath for anything special with Apple Intelligence.  Currently, it offers nothing to help anyone, except for making creepy images in Image Playground.

That's quite the exaggeration. Siri has fundamentally changed quite a bit over the years and is much more useful than its initial release. The only thing that's been static for 14 years is the criticism of Siri.

It may have its blind spots, but when you use Siri the way it is meant to be used, it's quite good. Running shortcuts, controlling my home, opening apps on Vision Pro, controlling timers, fetching factual information, etc. Because of Shortcuts Siri is programmable by users. I personally would have a worse experience trying to use Google Assistant or Alexa because they have different skill sets. Google is best at (probably wrong) info, Alexa is best at shopping.

Siri is best at knowing the user, learning from their personal data, and using that to get things done. And it's been great for me even if I'm what you'd call a Siri unicorn. I've heard the complaints about Siri and just encounter those issues funny enough.

schlack said:

This article feels like low effort and poorly contextualized arguments about AI. 

“I remember when this whole "Artificial Intelligence" thing started. It was and still is a bad name for an evolution of technology that has nothing to do with computers knowing anything.“

No you don’t. It started in the 1950s. It was being deployed into businesses in the 1980s. It was widespread by the 2000s. 

AI has everything to do with computers knowing things. Do you think humans know things any differently than a bunch of connections forming patterns??

Words have meaning. Computers are not inherently AI. They also don't know things. Computers run programs. They fetch stored information. Having access to data isn't the same as knowing that data and understanding it.

its like saying you know everything because you can go to the library.

maltz said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

nubus said:

MBPro201513 said:

The review seems woefully incomplete without mentioning the lack of 6Ghz support.   Looks like a great product otherwise, but that’s something that surely should be pointed out for a review of a network product? 

No 6 GHz support? But then the backbone is taking bandwidth from the clients. Also important to those living in an apartment as 2.4 and 5 GHz are often saturated and now the backbone has to run on that as well. Agree it should have been in the review.

Also worth mentioning are the massive security problems with TP-Link. Hard to recommend products when DOJ and FBI are deeply concerned.

DOJ and FBI are also deeply concerned over TikTok and 10 trans people competing in the NCAA[...]

Not sure what one has to do with the other, but neither of those are the fringe issues you seem to think they are.  The TikTok ban was passed 352-65 in the house.  And bans on other such Chinese companies in the enterprise space, like DJI and Huawei, are also bipartisan and international.  (And according to several polls and even Gavin Newsom, there's pretty broad agreement against trans in sports as well, at least outside of congress.)

And there's very good reason for being worried about China's infiltration of our infrastructure - they've already done it very aggressively, multiple times.  Most recently and severely with them hacking into the Treasury department and telecom companies, the latter giving them near-complete (and ongoing) access to every phone call and SMS text in the country by being deeply burrowed into the mechanisms the telecoms use for "wire tapping" lines these days.  (At least now we have a concrete example of why backdoors are bad.)

When Americans are filled with fear mongering rhetoric polls are going to reflect that. Newsom is a coward fearing retaliation from the administration that uses threats to get what it wants. Not sure these are the examples you should be standing behind when we're discussing basic human rights and polls are often poorly sampled. But regardless, it's irrelevant to the topic and it doesn't matter if the bigoted lemmings all agree on something they don't understand, that doesn't make it right.

The TikTok ban, regardless of the votes, was pure xenophobia and misinformation fueling fear within our elderly Congress. If the US government wanted to protect citizens, it should have regulated all social media data collection practices instead of targeting China. Because apparently it's okay when the US accesses Meta's data to spy on citizens, but they draw a line at China.

SuntanIronMan said:

Did you mean to write “Everyone is a loser in the artificial intelligence race”? (Not “Apple Intelligence race”.)

No, as it always has been with Apple, they are talked about differently than other companies are. ChatGPT and Google Gemini are usually discussed in a vacuum. Apple is always compared to everyone else. Thus there is no race from the point of view of these other companies, but when you're talking about Apple It's a race against everyone else.

ChatGPT announces something, if it's not written about in a silo it's always "here's how ChatGPT leaps further ahead of Apple." Or Apple announces something, it's "here's how far behind Apple is in spite of new feature." It's never just Apple on its own.

So, it's an Apple Intelligence race.

nubus said:

MBPro201513 said:

The review seems woefully incomplete without mentioning the lack of 6Ghz support.   Looks like a great product otherwise, but that’s something that surely should be pointed out for a review of a network product? 

No 6 GHz support? But then the backbone is taking bandwidth from the clients. Also important to those living in an apartment as 2.4 and 5 GHz are often saturated and now the backbone has to run on that as well. Agree it should have been in the review.

Also worth mentioning are the massive security problems with TP-Link. Hard to recommend products when DOJ and FBI are deeply concerned.

DOJ and FBI are also deeply concerned over TikTok and 10 trans people competing in the NCAA, so I wouldn't take that as a measure of anything people should be worried about. The US complaint has the same smell as EU regulators attacking successful US companies that compete in the region.

It all stems from Netgear complaints about it not being able to compete. TP-Link routers may have less patches, but they also historically have less malware and vulnerabilities. The US portion of TP-Link operates independently from the Chinese branch too.

The government investigation is purely based on the idea that because it originated from China that it might help the Chinese government attack Washington via a botnet. Not because they are cheap or inferior to American routers in some way.

From what I can tell, there aren't any massive security concerns, just the usual American elitism and xenophobia. If investigations return real concerns that are verified by experts outside of the government, then that's when you should worry.

Researchers at places like Malwarebytes don't like the response times and how TP-Link deals with reports, but they also don't have anything specific to report as far as dangers to consumers.

Right now it's no more a concern than what the US government said about ByteDance using TikTok for espionage.