elijahg

22july2013 said:

ralphie said:

blastdoor said:

It sure seems that forced sideloading is going to happen eventually. I guess we will just see what happens. I suspect it won’t end up being as big a deal, both good and bad, as people think. 

I agree. Who cares if there’s side-loading.  If that’s something what people want to do let ‘em.  I won’t be.

Apple should care, because me and the people I influence will stop buying iOS devices if iOS devices allow that. Will side-loading app stores have the same App Privacy information as apps on the Apple App Store have? No. Can you guarantee that apps will be available on the Apple App Store if they are available on other stores? No, you can't, and that means iOS will become a garbage dump.

mattinoz said:

elijahg said:

This article carefully steps around the fact that this improvement will make zero difference to Apple's most visible and most deficient use of AI: Siri.

Siri is the primary and by far most visible use of "AI" at Apple. People quite rightly have a problem with Siri being thick as a brick. Siri has numerous problems which are not going to be solved by improving the creation of useless avatars for a niche device no one yet owns outside of the developer space. This research specifically does nothing to help Siri for several reasons: 

• Siri doesn't use contemporary "AI" like ChatGPT, Siri's "intelligence" comes from predefined queries a in basic lookup table - which is why if you don't ask it something in the right way it breaks.
• Very few Siri queries are processed on-device. 
• LLMs need huge datasets unavailable on-device so efficiency of on-device processing is mostly irrelevant. 

This article does nothing to convince anyone that Apple is not far far behind the AI curve. Making a clockwork timepiece 10% more efficient is irrelevant when everyone else has long since moved to battery. Apple needs exactly what this article claims they don't: a clone of ChatGPT. Siri was supposed to be conversational 10 years ago when Steve Jobs introduced it on the iPhone 4. It has arguably got worse since then.

However, Apple's AI in other areas seems pretty good, photos is pretty good at recognising objects/people/things/scenes for example; and that's on-device. But claiming that Apple isn't behind the AI curve when their most visible use of AI is a disaster is pure fanboyism.

Does the article step around or not engage the obvious speculation or inference?

Siri could reduce the look-up table by having an LLM ( or a tight LM) on the device translated from the user language to "SiriCode", Developers wouldn't need to localise at all. define intents for what can be done by their Apps in  "SiiriCode" (much like what happens for shortcuts).

Could actually be advantageous for them as they can have a localised LM to suit a much more limited range of speech to start, but have a lot border range of downloadable models per language or regional dialect, even common language combos by allowing users' to nominate all the languages they speak.  then share a retrained or annotated version between the users' devices that picks up on each user's quirks in speech. 

Smaller, on-device ML lets Apple be more personable. I'm not surprised they would be looking at these sorts of developments the same way as the article clearly shows they are. 

ihatescreennames said:

zeus423 said:

Me to Siri: “Play My Way by Elvis Presley”

Siri: “Okay, here’s Elvis Presley” as she plays the same wrong song every single time. 

I’d be thrilled if Siri could just do the simple tasks it used to do just fine. 

Something about Siri that has baffled me for years is how people can ask it the same thing and get different results. Every time is see an issue like yours on the forum I try it myself. So far I’ve had the expected response every time I ask, trying to use the same wording. I find it very strange that this happens, year after year. What could it be that makes Siri reply one thing to one user and another thing to a differ t user asking the same thing?

"Apple's warranties will also be operating as normal, so any purchased devices within warranty can still be serviced by the company."

If this is an import ban then surely Apple has a stock of service Watches they can use?