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mpantone said:

AppleInsider said:

I think it's too late to take any bets on who is going to drive mass market adoption of AI/ML tools.

One thing that is crystal clear: consumer-facing AI tools are alpha or early beta quality right now. Here in late October 2024 there is nothing in the consumer-facing AI universe that remotely resembles release-quality software/services.

There are a few tools that are production quality and used by millions every day.

Copilot for developers (Github Copilot) has integrations directly into editors, can rewrite parts of code and works very well.
Midjourney and Leonardo AI have millions of paid users and have generated hundreds of millions of high quality art images.
Adobe has some art tools baked into different apps (1:05):



Audio AI like ElevenLabs and Respeecher can simulate voices very accurately and movies are using these tools to use iconic voices in new productions:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/26/ai-is-taking-over-the-iconic-voice-of-darth-vader-with-the-blessing-of-james-earl-jones/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/1/23488336/disneys-ai-tool-aging-actors-vfx-announcement

There won't be a single AI provider that excels at everything. AI covers a wide range of fields and there will be top providers in each field.

AI tools are production-ready today, being used by millions and generating billions in revenue.

hogman said:

All I got from this is, how does a monitor cost $30,000? Especially when all the monitors I see in hospitals display simple graphs and numbers.

It's similar to reference monitors for movies. Apple compared their XDR displays to $20000+ reference displays from Sony. They tend to have better calibration and features for their use cases.

https://www.monitors.com/collections/surgical-displays
https://www.monitors.com/collections/surgical-displays/products/barco-mdsc-8358-k9307938

https://synergymedco.com/product/sony-lmd-xh550mt-55in-4k-3d-2d-lcd-medical-monitor/ (medical features listed)
https://www.medicalecart.com/products/sony-lmd-xh550mt-55-inch-4k-3d-2d-lcd-monitor-high-performance-medical-monitor-box-of-01.html

Low glare, picture-in-picture, 3D image input, color accurate, designed for easy cleaning for hygiene etc.

nubus said:

charlesn said:

As for Vision Pro being a dud--that's hilarious for a product that has been in the hands of consumers for all of 32 weeks. Please cite fact-based sources for its "failure" that include Apple's actual internal projection for sales and how actual sales have fallen short of that number. 

AVP was presented in June 2023 and 16 months later all we get are quarterly dino videos. The current hardware / pricing / positioning is a failure. Most developers and customers have long forgotten AVP and so have most of us at AI. AVP is what happens when a non-product, non-founder CEO decides to invent the future of computing. We have been here before.

tipoo said:

Now if only Apple dropped a bag of cash at Valve to bring that ARM Proton port to macOS natively, so that Steam games "Just Work" on macOS...That's the dream. 

This is currently available to an extent due to Apple's Game Porting Toolkit, which uses Wine like Proton and has a DirectX to Metal translation layer.

Valve's Proton has a DirectX to Vulkan translation layer (DXVK), which would need MoltenVK to convert to Metal as Mac doesn't support Vulkan directly.

Crossover and Whisky integrate Apple's D3DMetal translation to run Windows games like Proton. It supports a lot of games, there are over 500 games tested on the following channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@macprotips/videos

It supports higher-end recent games like Horizon Forbidden West:



The only problem with this setup is you have to install Steam inside the compatibility layers, then install the games inside this, sometimes with patches. It's not very user-friendly.

If it was possible to use either the App Store or native Mac Steam and install a pre-wrapped version of each game that is already setup and tuned, that would be much easier and a license per install could be paid to the company that provides the wrapper if it's from a 3rd party.

chasm said:

The "Harry Potter" models are interesting, but I don't quite understand why "Harry" always looks freshly beaten up in the graphic provided.