The first and only thing I want to know about Apple Intelligence is how to turn it off.
Oh good, I’m using English (UK), so it won’t work to begin with.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2024
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Whether the new Apple Intelligence features are useful depends on who you ask. But I do greatly appreciate that inference is performed on-device. I think that’s a step in the right direction.
Oh I totally agree! If this was cloud based, that would be a privacy nightmare
Not to mention data and memory intensive.
I'm somewhat tickled by the snippets of adverts I've seen for both Samsung and Apple's new phones that mention "AI". None of what I've seen has actually explained why it's a selling point. Classic cart before the horse stuff.
Ultimately I'm not the target market for flagship phones as the price has spiraled out of control to the point where I cannot fathom how it can be justified for such a mundane device.
I’m somewhat tickled by the snippets of adverts I’ve seen for both Samsung and Apple’s new phones that mention “AI”. None of what I’ve seen has actually explained why it’s a selling point. Classic cart before the horse stuff.
Yup, in many cases AI is a solution looking for a problem
It's more like a problem avoiding the existing solution
Just marketing nonsense. There are three ways to present AI features:
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A generational improvement on things that have been available for 20+ years. This is not sexy and does not make for good advertising. For example: grammar checking, natural-speech processing (Siri), automatic photo tagging/sorting.
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A new type of usage that nobody cares about because they've lived without it just fine up to now.
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Straight-up lie to people about what it can do, using just enough weasel words to keep yourself out of jail.
Similarly I have no clue why my new work laptop comes equipped with a dedicated "copilot" key.
You're holding it wrong.
If I was a rich person and I trusted Apple, I would switch to iPhone for this.
We'll get an open source, entirely local version for GrapheneOS eventually though, I imagine
Let's hope so!