i can’t imagine being a a trillion dollar company doing any serious business with a company where the entire executive suite has vacated except the ceo that’s clearly doing things.
at this phase, it would be disastrous for apple to bank their reputation on sam.
Apple is on track to own everything in the vertical except chip manufacturing. It would make sense for them to invest in their products and services over something with more varied interests.
While building lix change control I figured out that collaboration was/is the driver behind local to cloud. A secondary reason is compute.
If a system exists that enables (distributed) collaboration on files, the appeal of cloud-based software vanishes. Remote compute becomes possible as well.
I am disappointment in the AI advancements in the recent years. It turns out progress is made not for the sake of the technology and the good for humankind, but for money. Just another pump and dump...
Is this the newest form of protest after Satya tried to burn the company to the ground? Throwing the toy away and saying "I don't want to play with this anymore, it's! It's a pump and dump"?
Is this actually related to the recent exodus? Apple is paying OpenAI nothing for use of their model on iPhones. Maybe they just realized being able to get away with paying nothing is a sign of how commoditized models will be.
Maybe Apple just realized that they would have bought the top of a massive pump and dump scheme with the huge risk of the researchers leaving the company whilst the training and inference costs suffocates OpenAI.
Sometimes, FOMOing into a pump and dump is not worth it and they were just too late.
I don’t think Apple was too late at all. In all the hype, nobody asks “how does this help $family_member in their day to day”.
I’ve used generative AI to help with writing documents and code. I think it’s fun for creating and modifying images. As someone with no creative talent, Photoshop has been quite fun to use.
But frankly, AI is completely useless in almost every way I see it implemented. I cannot see my grandparents, my mom, or my brother use it for anything practical. Everyone’s rushing to flesh out an investor slide deck without taking a moment to think: “but how can this actually be used in someone’s day-to-day”
I’ve enjoyed Apple’s extremely conservative approach so far — they’ve kept it mostly practical.
For example, let’s take the photos app. Just being able to search for “(dogs name) lake” and having images of my dog near a lake is day-to-day useful.
Another example is their introduction of writing tools to proofread blocks of text. My parents already use Spellcheck and Grammar check, this feels like the next step up.
Compare this to Samsung who took the SV Venture-Fund-appeal-style route and blasted “AI” everywhere they can call a function or put a button. Or Microsoft, who’s Copilot story is focused on imprinting keys on keyboards without answering “how does this help the end user”
This hype around AI is gaudy. Nearly every implementation feels cheap, half-baked, and obnoxious. If Apple’s skepticism of implementing AI so far is “late”, late is not a bad thing at all as an end user.
(All that said, Genmoji looks incredibly stupid and I’m wondering what they were thinking with this…)
You don’t see how an always available generative agent that could help monitor for cognitive decline and offer relief from loneliness could be helpful for the elderly?
I suspect we don't want it in our day to day, removing human interaction? But it is being used in day to regardless. Eg picking the next song to play.
It seems to excel at helping people do their jobs, double checking their work, etc. It's maddening since it makes constant mistakes. But Apple should be utilizing this to make HomeKit as magical as promised -- rather than automating email, which is basically the lowest hanging copy and paste able fruit available
i can’t imagine being a a trillion dollar company doing any serious business with a company where the entire executive suite has vacated except the ceo that’s clearly doing things.
at this phase, it would be disastrous for apple to bank their reputation on sam.
If AMD can do it, they can as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41674382
https://archive.ph/Dc6jS
Apple is on track to own everything in the vertical except chip manufacturing. It would make sense for them to invest in their products and services over something with more varied interests.
The future will be local models. Let these investors burn the money.
I wish, but why do you think so? Last decade the flow was from local compute to the server, not the other way around.
While building lix change control I figured out that collaboration was/is the driver behind local to cloud. A secondary reason is compute.
If a system exists that enables (distributed) collaboration on files, the appeal of cloud-based software vanishes. Remote compute becomes possible as well.
At least, that’s the bet we are taking with lix https://lix.opral.com/
Agree. What’s your reasoning?
Apple is already doing this:
https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-intelligence/
I am disappointment in the AI advancements in the recent years. It turns out progress is made not for the sake of the technology and the good for humankind, but for money. Just another pump and dump...
Is this the newest form of protest after Satya tried to burn the company to the ground? Throwing the toy away and saying "I don't want to play with this anymore, it's! It's a pump and dump"?
"It turns out?" "In recent years?" It has forever been so.
Is this actually related to the recent exodus? Apple is paying OpenAI nothing for use of their model on iPhones. Maybe they just realized being able to get away with paying nothing is a sign of how commoditized models will be.
Maybe Apple just realized that they would have bought the top of a massive pump and dump scheme with the huge risk of the researchers leaving the company whilst the training and inference costs suffocates OpenAI.
Sometimes, FOMOing into a pump and dump is not worth it and they were just too late.
I don’t think Apple was too late at all. In all the hype, nobody asks “how does this help $family_member in their day to day”.
I’ve used generative AI to help with writing documents and code. I think it’s fun for creating and modifying images. As someone with no creative talent, Photoshop has been quite fun to use.
But frankly, AI is completely useless in almost every way I see it implemented. I cannot see my grandparents, my mom, or my brother use it for anything practical. Everyone’s rushing to flesh out an investor slide deck without taking a moment to think: “but how can this actually be used in someone’s day-to-day”
I’ve enjoyed Apple’s extremely conservative approach so far — they’ve kept it mostly practical.
For example, let’s take the photos app. Just being able to search for “(dogs name) lake” and having images of my dog near a lake is day-to-day useful.
Another example is their introduction of writing tools to proofread blocks of text. My parents already use Spellcheck and Grammar check, this feels like the next step up.
Compare this to Samsung who took the SV Venture-Fund-appeal-style route and blasted “AI” everywhere they can call a function or put a button. Or Microsoft, who’s Copilot story is focused on imprinting keys on keyboards without answering “how does this help the end user”
This hype around AI is gaudy. Nearly every implementation feels cheap, half-baked, and obnoxious. If Apple’s skepticism of implementing AI so far is “late”, late is not a bad thing at all as an end user.
(All that said, Genmoji looks incredibly stupid and I’m wondering what they were thinking with this…)
You don’t see how an always available generative agent that could help monitor for cognitive decline and offer relief from loneliness could be helpful for the elderly?
I suspect we don't want it in our day to day, removing human interaction? But it is being used in day to regardless. Eg picking the next song to play.
It seems to excel at helping people do their jobs, double checking their work, etc. It's maddening since it makes constant mistakes. But Apple should be utilizing this to make HomeKit as magical as promised -- rather than automating email, which is basically the lowest hanging copy and paste able fruit available