cg27

timmillea said:

There was a time when Apple always led with new technologies - mostly a deeply unprofitable time. In latter years, they work in secret, study what the competition is doing, innovates on top, patents to the hill, then embarrasses the competition. 

My first degree at Durham University starting 1992 was 50% in AI and 50% software engineering. Then no one I met outside the University had even heard of artificial intelligence nor believed in it when I explained what it was. Now AI is on the main broadcast news all the time. Even now, Nick Clegg of Meta was on the airwaves this morning explaining that the current generation of AI is simply predicting the next word or 'token' from big data. Back in 1992, Durham had a huge natural language processing system called LOLITA which was based on deep semantic understanding - an internal, language-independant representation based on semantic graphs. LOLITA read the Wall Street Journal everyday and could answer questions on it with intelligence, not parrot fashion. For my final year project, I worked on the dialogue module including 'emotion'. Then the LOLITA funding ended and that was the end of that. Had it been in the US, I can't help feeling that LOLITA would have morphed into one of the top corporates in the World. We don't support genius or foresight in the UK. 

It is truly depressing that 30 years later, the current state of AI is still neural nets trained on mediocre data sets. 

chutzpah said:

cg27 said:

techrider said:

The difference between a million and a billion

One million seconds = 11.5 days
One billion seconds = 31.7 years
One trillion seconds = 3,154 years

For a person making a decent salary of $100K/year, making 10 million isn’t likely in their lifetime. 

Nice example but you only got 1 out of 3 right:
1 million seconds = 114 days
1 trillion seconds = 31,709 years

So the leap from billion to trillion seconds would make your point even more so.

I’m pretty sure the original figure for days was correct.

techrider said:

The difference between a million and a billion

One million seconds = 11.5 days
One billion seconds = 31.7 years
One trillion seconds = 3,154 years

For a person making a decent salary of $100K/year, making 10 million isn’t likely in their lifetime. 

danox said:

humbug1873 said:

Why announce more?
Let's face it (pun intended), at the moment they want to get their newest trick pony in front of developers so they can get them to start working their collective creative minds and come up with cool uses for it. There is no need to announce more than that, especially when the rest is rather unpolished as of now (for a product that still has a lot of time to the finish line).
Also ... it's probably not a bad thing to have something to write home about, once the product gets actually introduced to the market. Apple doesn't want to read reports 'Yeah Apple announced the availability of the Vision Pro and it's all as seen long time ago' once it comes out.

From the time developers get their hands on the developer tools, and the device itself, there will be a long steady line of developers, announcing that they have ported over an existing program or created a new one to work with the Apple Vision Pro, over the next 6 to 9 months right up until its introduction/release to the public, and once it’s released to the public and people can go to the Apple store and test it out themselves, you can’t ask for a better runway, leading up to new product introduction. A tsunami.

There have been many complaints about the price, but, once you get the opportunity to try it out yourself, listening to the testimonials of people who have tried it, there will be a recalibration once people try it out for themselves at the Apple store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ8Png-FZ0g. Another testimonial, includes a very funny quote at the end.