tundraboy

My AirPods Pro started crackling a little over two years after I purchased them. Genius Bar can 'fix' them by replacing each earbud for $90.  In effect AirPods Pro is a $200 disposable product.  Actually, based on my experience with other Apple earphone products, they are basically as disposable as IKEA flat pack furniture.  In fact, IKEA probably lasts longer.

So, no thanks, I might as well just go buy the cheap no name brand which will be just as short lived.  Apple makes great products but their whole line of wired and wireless earphones, including Beats, are garbage products:  They're quite pricey but don't last that long.

With a large enough image database, you can take a photo of a celebrity (at a concert you attended, say) and the Samsung phone can magically upgrade the facial image to studio quality.  Or if you have a friend who's a doppelgänger of a famous person, then pictures of them will be upgraded with database images of said famous person.

DAalseth said:

Much potential, but yes there is a LONG way to go before you can trust the results. Part of the problem of course, is that people tend to ask ambiguous questions. What is the square root of 64 is fine. What is the best electric car, will likely produce unreliable results. I read a piece on this a while back where they started asking AIs questions with no correct answer, How to catch a bigfoot? Who invented nuclear fusion in the 1800s? That sort of thing. The results were pure trash, but they had citations and everything. There’s a lot of refinement that needs to be done before we can trust the results.

When we humans engage in conversation, we are constantly trying to size up what the other person's thoughts are, especially their intent in talking with us.  Where are they coming from, so to speak.  What could possibly interest them and what would not.  And so on.  In short we are trying to peer into the other person's mind in the effort to make communication more effective.  Psychologists call that "Theory of Mind" and we engage our full cognitive toolkit, both logical and emotional, using visual and auditory queues, as well as situational and contextual awareness, to form an accurate theory of mind.

 AI doesn't have theory of mind.  It doesn't even have its own mind, which is the main prerequisite for forming a theory of another person's mind.  That AI is stupid, literally mindless, is no surprise.  The simulation of intelligence, no matter how authentic it looks, is not intelligence.

M68000 said:

Many of you remember when things were simple,  you had iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.   How times have changed.   It might be said there are already too many current models available. Simplicity has always been Apple mantra right?

Yes, when Apple had a much smaller (and narrower) customer base, they could get away with a bare-bones line up.  Apple sold 125 million phones in 2022.  2 iPhone models cannot address the varied preferences of all those customers; if you don't offer what they want, they'll go to a competitor who offers it.  Imagine Toyota or Volkswagen, each of which sells roughly 10 million vehicles a year, just offering a line up of two models.

Could the battery have swelled up after 15 years, warped the case, and maybe even split the phone open?  Can't the bidders demand the box be x-rayed first?