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Farago said:

Western countries are idiots.

That this comes as a surprise is just pathetic—of course the Chinese military is going to do everything it can to spy on the West.

- Chinese hackers stole trillions in intellectual property theft (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-hackers-took-trillions-in-intellectual-property-from-about-30-multinational-companies/)
- Zoom is deeply in bed with the Chinese military

- China's human rights record is right up there with Hitler's

The CCP is a heinous regime with whom we should not be engaging.
Apple needs to get out of China and show some moral leadership.

Yeah....China..... Where masked police just grab people off the street , don't charge them with any crimes , then ship them off to a detention facility in the middle of nowhere and make it impossible for their lawyers to contact them. Just like Hitler's regime.  Or maybe you are confusing it with another country.

mknelson said:

"The latest M3 Ultra Mac Studio is a great, if extremely expensive, way to run massive LLMs locally. But for the hobbyist dabbling in the subject, tinkering with projects like the PowerBook G4 can still be rewarding."

Meanwhile, over at The Cult of Mac

"The new Mac Studio with an M3 Ultra chip, which supports up to 512 GB of unified memory, is the easiest and cheapest way to run powerful, cutting-edge LLMs on your own hardware."
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/mac-studio-ai-performance

Both statements are true.  To run LLMs locally you either need to invest in expensive and power-hungry GPU cards to plug into your PC OR get a 'loaded' Mac Studio . 

I don't think there is any evidence that the new HomeKit architecture will make "older smart home accessories inoperable". Nothing in my home , which included some fairly old accessories , had any issues.

You guys don’t reflect what most people use Siri for. 99% of people use Siri to dictate text and read messages or emails, and get directions using maps-  and it’s damn good at that. I don’t find google much better with understanding speech, if at all. And the second use case is to control a smart home. For both of these use cases Siri works great. If you want to ask idiotic questions about how many super bowls some team won, then go ask google. For complex questions, you want to have an interaction with ChatGPT but that’s a separate way to work with AI, and not really what Siri is intended for. Apple intelligence is not Siri. All the other tools like summaries and email categories are actually super useful. Apple has to build out massive AI compute farms and integrate Siri into iOS and apps, that takes time. And Apple likes to get things right.

SleepDoc said:

I was excluded from the study because I have a shared icloud account. Thats going to cause problems from many people willing to participate. Thats too bad. 

Same here