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Tesla reaches settlement in autopilot death case of Apple engineer
If anyone wants to see how the technology is going, just take a ride or watch a Waymo. I have ridden several times and have seen them on the road every day. They drive like an elderly person who can’t see very well and sometimes break for no reason. Deathly afraid of making left turns on busy streets with no left turn traffic light arrows. It will pick the “safest” (longest) route to get to your destination and is a little cheaper than rideshares and rarely almost half the price.I have seen the cars stop traffic on busy streets for no apparent reason, and while it has a ton of sensors on the car, it still has difficulty judging where pedestrians are when driving parallel to a sidewalk that has people on it. Mine stopped because it was thinking those people who were walking would all of a sudden dart into the street when it was a couple and their baby stroller. Almost every ride, I have feedback, and a lot of times the cars are pretty dirty inside. They keep giving me vouchers but Google does not like talking about issues that could be construed as potential problems that could result in serious accidents.I doubt Tesla will be able to make a safe automated driving system if it just relies on cameras. The only reason why Waymo is successful is the grea$ing of politicians who tout that their cities will be high tech and this will be our future. So far, all I see is weary, angry, and surprised people when taking Waymo or when driving next to one.
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Wedbush: AI & pent-up iPhone 16 demand outweigh concerns over China sales
The fluff is the competition’s statements. A European car manufacturer has announced AI for your car. Other companies use AI as a buzzword like B2B.avon b7 said:
The reasons why Apple hasn't delivered are neither here nor there. The point is that in all this time they haven't produced a competing product.hammeroftruth said:
Sounds like all fluff to me. Nothing substantial from what you are talking about.avon b7 said:
'seemingly' frantic.hammeroftruth said:
What frantic activity are you talking about?avon b7 said:That is what Tim Cook is trying to do with early references to WWDC and the seemingly frantic activity within Apple to get something out the door.
There are numerous AI products and projects that they have been working on for years. Just because it’s not a known consumer product does not mean that they haven’t been working on AI, or whatever Apple wants to call it.This sounds like more of some reporter or analyst just deciding that because Apple has not made any references to AI, means they haven’t been working on anything related to the technology and were caught flat footed.
Lack of any real shipping equivalent product.
Tim Cook going on record as 'pre-announcing' AI moves for this year.
Some people (with apparent insider information) here saying that Apple was basically putting the pedal to the metal to get AI baked into some products. No. Not just the ML stuff.
Car project shut down with claims that many employees will be transferred to AI teams.
No one can know for sure of course but the lack of any equivalent shipping product (to what has been sucking all the news time up) is obviously telling.
Saying Apple has been 'doing ML for years' is saying nothing. So has everybody else.
What markets react to is, tangible, shipping products and Apple is still to deliver where others are already advancing.
As things stand, WWDC will see important AI announcements. Why do you think Tim Cook put that particular piece of information into the public domain?
Apple went from not even wanting to utter the letters 'AI' last year to planting them straight up into this year's WWDC! That is some change of tack.
Once those announcements are made, what will happen? Will they start rolling out products immediately? Will they wait for this year's product refresh/iOS release? Will they be ready or released as beta?
September/October is still a long way off but competitors have been shipping AI related solutions for a while now and that is why we see almost daily news pieces on this or that advance and right across the technology board. Almost in parallel, we see news pieces that reflect on Apple's missing AI products.
We see those because they haven't been released.
MWC concluded just days ago and it was all about 5.5G and AI.
Generative AI is everywhere. It's now moving into the video realm.
Tiny Large Language Models are here.
Work on existing LLMs is advancing at an incredible pace.
Where has Apple been for the last two years in this area? Claiming they are working on it and always have been is saying nothing.
Everybody has been working on it. The difference is that all the big players except Apple have something to show for it.
That's why it's been in the news for what seems like forever now.AI is about a large amount of data and being Apple, they have to make sure their core values of privacy is adhered to in using that data. That means not selling your data or using your data to identify you or to sell you stuff. So making sure that data is clean takes time. Do you think anything that a lot of these new products that are using AI has made takes into account your privacy? Nope.Why do you think Walmart spent billions on buying Vizio? For the data, not the TVs. Your personal information is the new source of gold.In order to build these things correctly, there needs to be that wall of anonymity to keep the information from identifying you directly.You can’t rush AI development, unless you are throwing a ton of money to hire more data engineers and other people to build the server farms and make the data lakes.There is also different types of data and different flavors of databases that don’t always work well together. That’s why companies like Dremio are trying to help get this technology deployed faster.There’s no real timeline that Apple has to adhere to other than making sure that they deliver products that will help the development of needed software for the Vision Pro. That’s where the immediate need is, and the double edge sword of secrecy between each department. Imagine working right next door to the building making the hardware and not knowing what they were doing and now you need to make applications for it that are up to standards.
If it were no big deal Tim Cook wouldn't have said anything about AI and this year. He would have kept mum for a big reveal in June.
He said it because it's a massive deal.
They deliberately tried to avoid the term last year by making out as if AI in the guise of ML was where the action was. That is correct and there is no denying that but newer AI related advances here and there is no doubt that these new product avenues are where the action is now.
Now that the pressure is really on, suddenly it's 'Oh yeah, we're working on that too'. 'Just wait til WWDC' [because right now we have nothing to show for it].
It is anything but fluff IMO.
The reason why Tim doesn’t have anything to say is, he couldn’t compress what the technology they have been working on down to something that can be explained in a sentence or two. He is deliberate in his speech and it would be very difficult for him to break down the different technologies they have into a few words that can be discussed outside of Apple’s rules of disclosure. That’s why I believe his hints about the VP don’t even come close to the actual product.You are right though, he should have kept his mouth shut like Steve used to do.The only pressure right now is to keep the VP alive while creating software for it that justifies its existence and purchase.
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References to 'homeOS' resurface in tvOS 17.4 beta
It will be nice to see what happens now that Craig Federighi is in charge of Homekit.There’s a lot of work to do, especially after the damage iOS 17 has done to a lot of people’s homekit setups.With how backwards HomeKit has devolved since iOS 17, I’m betting a rewritten system is in the works and iOS 17 is a stopgap.I’m hoping that a new HomeKit with a better interface, will handle devices with more control and without the need of third party apps to setup devices and thus making it more secure for the homeowner. They’re probably also working with the Siri team to make Siri much more useable when using it with a homepod, or AppleTV. There’s nothing more infuriating than having Siri ask you to ask it again what you wanted from your iPhone. Why can’t you just dictate the web query results instead of making me read it on my iPhone?I just hope it makes its debut soon. I’m tired of a homepod in another room responding to my query when one which is right in front of me stays silent.
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E3 is dead, and Apple helped kill it
I doubt that Apple killed E3. I used to go to E3 when it was about developers and letting them see unreleased hardware to develop on along with console manufacturers and graphic chip manufacturers, and buyers for brick and mortar stores who sold games and hardware.I saw the evolution of games on the PlayStation, the birth of the Xbox, the death of the Dreamcast, and the horrible fist demos of games on the PlayStation 2.What killed E3 is exactly what killed Macworld and Comdex, the cost. It was too expensive to rent a space, create a booth, staff it for several days with content and have meetings at the booth throughout the show dates.Apple might have had a hand in it. But they started way before when they stopped going to Comdex, which caused others like IBM to stop and it snowballed. E3 started dying when Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo decided to stop attending and create their own release events, just like Apple does.
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PETA names Apple as the 2023 Company of the Year
Possibly, but to be substantial, everyone would have to stop making leather products, not just Apple.byronl said:Question: Since leather is a byproduct of the meat industry, does decreasing its use actually decrease emissions?I am not buying this theory of why they discontinued those products since they love to tout what kind of leather went into SJ theater and they are using leather in remodeling some of their corporate offices presently.
