Engineers:
we made a thing that tells you what it thinks you want to hear, and sometimes what it thinks you want to hear is absolutely insane
Tech CEOs:
let’s put it in fucking everything
Apple Intelligence will make apps and services smarter.
What an asinine sentence. Written by a person who apparently doesn’t understand any of the concepts involved.
Welcome to tech journalism, which mostly doesn’t employ journalists, nor technologists.
If it can make Siri read out the definition of a word on Apple Watch instead of pointing me to a web page to read on my own, that’d be real neat.
Apple once seemed to have a lead in leveraging AI for personal computing, after launching Siri in 2011. The assistant made use of recent AI breakthroughs at the time to recognize speech more reliably, and sought to turn a limited range of voice commands into useful actions on the iPhone.
Apple once bought an app
“They came through with a commitment to personal, private, and context-aware AI,” says Tom Gruber, an AI entrepreneur who cofounded the company that developed Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010. Gruber says he was happy to see the company demo use cases that emphasized those features.
Fine, a company.
