Remember my long-running skepticism about AI and the push to get Apple to “catch up” with the rest of the industry, e.g.
Well, in the interest of contributing some activity on this board, it seems Macalope on Macworld has posted something similar, to the effect that Apple is also similarly skeptical:
Remember netbooks? They were small, cheap, underpowered, and poorly made, but boy, were they cheap. Apple, you might be surprised to learn, was “behind” on netbooks. Netbooks were going to eat the company’s lunch because it didn’t have one…
The parallels here are not exact but they’re also not that different. AI is “the thing you have to have” because investors–not customers–say so, even though so far no one has really figured out how to make a lot of money off of LLMs.
So I’m still skeptical. I’ve found no real use for Apple Intelligence except for playing around with Playground and finding out that I apparently look Indian. But I’ve yet to see what AI on any other platform would be a must-have. Show me.
You’ve gone further than I have, I haven’t enabled anything, or messed about in the Playroom… I’ll gently follow threads that do discuss it, but so far, I’m not seeing a need… Maybe on down the road a ways… That Jony Ive sold something to Google is interesting, he must have cut all his ties at Apple when he left… So be it…
A long time ago there was a relevant thread here at TMF, it asked the question, “Who benefits most from technology, users or suppliers?” Back then I ignored users. Now I search for investments that monetize technology. AI driven cars? AI operated robots Wendy just said she does not want advertising when asking AI for answers. This bring up the question, can you make more money selling adds on AI based content or selling AI powered goods?
BTW, Tesla announced the latest version of DOJO, supposedly way ahead of NVDIA products and, like Apple’s chips, based on ARM technology.