Apple fumbled a bit with Siri, and I'm guessing they're not too keen to keep chasing everyone else, since outside of limited applications it turns out half baked at best.
Sadly, unless something shinier comes along soon, we're going to have to accept that everything everywhere else is just going to be awful. Hallucinations in your doctor's notes, legal rulings, in your coffee and laundry and everything else that hasn't yet been IoT-ified.
Yes they didn't push it as hard as, say, copilot. I still think they got in way too deep way too fast.
I'm certain they'll get it right soon enough though. People were writing off Google in terms of AI until this year.. and oh how attitudes have changed.
I was in the VC space for a while previously, most pitch decks claimed to be using AI: But doing even the briefest of DD - it was generally BS. Now it's real.
With respect to everything being awful: One might say that's always been the case. However, now there's a chance (and requirement) to build in place safeguards/checks/evals and massively improve both speed and quality of services through AI.
Don't judge for the problems: Look at the exponential curve, think about how to solve the problems. Otherwise, you will get left behind.
I installed a logitech mouse driver (sigh) the other day, and in addition to being obtrusive and horrible to use, it jams an LLM into the UI, for some reason.
AI has reached crapware status in record time.
that's the problem noo?? big company is sucks at that, you cant do that in certain company because sometimes its just not possible
Every week for the last few months, I get a recruiter for a healthcare startup note taking app with AI. It's just a rehash of all the existing products out there, but "with AI". It's the last place I want an overworked non-technical user relying on the computer to do the right thing, yet I've had at least four companies reach out with exactly that product. A few have been similar. All of them have been "with AI".
It's great that it is getting better, but at the end of the day, there's only so much it can be relied upon for, and I can't wait for something else to take away the spotlight.
> Apple made an out of character misstep by releasing a terrible UX to everyone
Just give Google a year or two.
Google has a pretty amazing history of both messing up products generally and especially "ai like" things, including search.
(Yes I used to defend Google until a few years ago.)
Yes. Finally! Now it's real BS. I wouldn't touch it with 8 meter pole.
I don’t necessarily agree with the post you’re responding to, but what I will give Apple credit for is making their AI offering unobtrusive.
I tried it, found it unwanted and promptly shut it off. I have not had to think about it again.
Contrast that with Microsoft Windows, or Google - both shoehorning their AI offering into as many facets of their products as possible, not only forcing their use, but in most cases actively degrading the functionality of the product in favor of this required AI functionality.
The models and devices just aren't quite there yet.
Once Google gets its shit together and starts deploying (cloud--based) AI features to Android devices en masse, Apple is going to have a really big problem on their hands.
Most users say that they want privacy, but if privacy comes in the way of features or UX, they choose the latter. Successful privacy-respecting companies (Apple, Signal) usually understand this, it's why they're successful, but I think Apple definitely chose the wrong tradeoff here.
Yes they knew Apple maps was bad and not up to standard yet, but they didn't really have any other choice.
Quite plausibly they just didn't realize how rocky the start would be, or perhaps they valued that immediate strategic autonomy more in the short-term that we think, and willingly chose to take the hit to their reputation rather than wait.
Regardless, they had choices.
"OK Replicator, make me one espresso with creamer"
"Making one espresso with LSD"
- An extremely dedicated and high achieving professional, at the very top of her game with deep industry/sectoral knowledge: Successful and with outstanding connections. - Mother of a young child. - Tradition/requirement for success within the sector was/is working extremely long hours: 80-hour weeks are common.
She's implemented AI to automate many of her previous laborious tasks and literally cut down her required hours by 90%. She's now able to spend more time with her family, but also - able to now focus on growing/scaling in ways previously impossible.
Knowing how to use it, what to rely upon, what to verify and building in effective processes is the key. But today AI is at its worst and it already exceeds human performance in many areas.. it's only going in one direction.
Hopefully the spotlight becomes humanity being able to focus on what makes us human and our values, not mundane/routine tasks and allows us to better focus on higher-value/relationships.
What do you mean? Code shouldn't degrade if it's not changed. But the iOS spell checker is actively getting worse, meaning someone is updating it.
If they don't then I'd hope they get absolutely crucified by trade comissions everywhere, currently there are bilboards in my city advertising Apple AI even though it doesn't even exist yet - if it's never brought to the market then it's a serious case of misleading advertising.
I suppose this is the difference between an optimist and a pessimist. No matter how much better the tool gets, I don't see people getting better, and so I don't see the addition of LLM chatbots as ever improving things on the whole.
Yes, expert users get expert results. There's a reason why I use a chainsaw to buck logs instead of a hand saw, and it's also much the same reason that my wife won't touch it.
> They could have launched a submarine non-apple-branded product to test the waters.