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Eh.

Apple is just racing to integrate AI into its current compute platform as fast possible.

OpenAI definitely believes a smart enough AI (AGI, ASI) will solve way bigger problems or create essentially a brand new compute platform.

Heck, ChatGPT as a lame LLM is almost its own compute platform already.

Apple is just speeding up people getting used to not needing apps and fancy devices vs simply communicating with an agent.

Who really will need Apple in 10-15 years if AI really does get good enough then?
How do we sign up to be an independent expert?
We need about 50,000 eyeballs on this at all times.
Is a person* able to sell something while restricting how it can be used? This is before we even get into the issues of selling software vs. selling the right to use a copy of the software. Things like copyright laws, IP laws, and even ownership ends up getting complicated when deciding what is just or not. I think we mostly agree you shouldn't be able to resell copies of a book if you buy a book, but selling your own specific copy of a book is fine. But why does this distinction exist? Do you really own the book if you can't resell copies of it?

*or company. Perhaps part of the answer is that sometimes we say yes for people but no for companies.
Thank you for the feedback. I will make sure to add the "how-to" demo.
Probably Raivo, but it was acquired a year ago, not a week ago.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793
Definitely a favorite of mine as well, strikes a good balance between keeping conversations going while also still organized enough. Shame the last image board I enjoyed succumbed to death the same way all small forums eventually do.

One additional thing that is special about image board discussions, is posts often have a picture thumbnail along with it, which I find provides for having an innate spacial awareness when jumping around in a thread.
You're still failing to reason this through correctly. Let's stick to the central example, since the analogous situation didn't help you.

Same amount of momentum, two collisions. In one, there is one crumple zone, we will assume the brick wall is completely undamaged, for the sake of simplicity. In the other, there are two crumple zones.

All of the crumpling is dissipated energy. What doesn't get crumpled, goes into the driver's face.

Clearly, the situation with two crumple zones is superior. There's a limit to how much energy can be absorbed by crumpling. With two crumple zones, that limit is 2x, with one, 1x.

Therefore, damage to the driver or drivers is much worse in the brick wall scenario.

For another analogy, picture a go-kart, with a half-meter block of styrofoam, hitting a brick wall. Now, picture the same go-kart, hitting at the same speed, but this time, there's a meter of styrofoam.

That's the one-crumple and two-crumple scenarios.
It’s an interesting choice to announce a brand-new standard for privacy guarantees regarding AI/ML queries…

…then announce a partnership with ChatGPT.
Llama 3 8B captures that 'magic' fairly well and runs on a modest gaming PC. You can even run it on an iPhone 15 if you're willing to sacrifice floating point precision. Three years from now I full expect GPT4 quality models running locally on an iPhone.
Is this supporting voice clonning?
I honestly packed all the code inside of a APK and distribute it via Google app store. I make no request to get out send any data. How am I collecting or storing any data?
Apple's product focus is on getting Siri to bridge your first-party and third-party apps, your 500GB of on-device data, and your terabyte of iCloud data with a nice interface, all of which they're trying to deliver using their own technology.

Having Siri answer your trivia question about whale songs, or suggest a Pad Thai recipe modification when you ran out of soy sauce, is just not where they see the value. Poor web search has been an easy critique to weigh against Siri for the last many years, and the ChatGPT integration (and Apple's own local prompt prep) should fare far better than that, but it doesn't have any relevance to "leapfrogging" because the two companies just aren't trying to do the same thing.
I was going to say too, I love literate-calc in org mode but it's all pretty niche and not a well developed set of sofwtare
https://github.com/sulami/literate-calc-mode.el
Being in system settings makes sense to me. Having the place to see the same stuff on macOS be Safari’s settings window is the bizarre part.

Regardless, I’ve been using it for years now. Works fine. Better UI will be nice assuming this doesn’t come with a bunch of updates that somehow manage to make it work less-well.
Would be great to be able to read all of these as a single article! (I'm intrigued, but I'm not saving 13 blog posts to my read-it-later app. Even stitched together, it wouldn't be the longest in my list by a long shot.)
I hate everything about this. Curious how blocking OpenAI's TLDs at the DNS level will go.
I quite like the Wipr “Content Blocker”. It’s paid, but at least that’s incentive to continue working on something a dreadful as ad-block.
The design of Starship/super heavy was to be closer to fully reusable, was that a mistake?
I'm not sure what point you're making.

In one case, it would have been pretty ridiculous for me to have gone to the ER given that I didn't otherwise have COVID or other serious symptoms.

In the other case, in spite of a pretty high fever, I'm quite confident that had I gone into the local rural ER at the time they would have had zero idea about the tropical disease I had and, even after I got home with a fairly persistent mild fever, my very experienced primary care MD just knew that my blood work looked bad and it took an on-call infectious disease specialist to know what was going on.

You're not always going to have an expert specialist available.

Not that it mattered in either case because there wasn't really anything they could do other than let my body do its thing.
Well that explains it doesn't it?
Apple is definitely paying because they don't let OpenAI save anything.
Microsoft makes Windows Recall opt-in, secures data with Windows Hello
OAI has already said they'll be giving 4o for free..
https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-and-more-tools-to-chatgpt-fr...

Difference I suppose with Apple is they agree not to scrape your inputs.
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agreed, an endless mode would be nice. perhaps it's not implemented by-design to keep us coming back - it's certainly going to work on me. opening the game in a new private tab will let you make another attempt :)
Emoji, Memoji, stickers, now gen images. Can’t wait to start receiving them from my dad and my mother-in-law in the most absurd of contexts. Like honestly, I like how much the older relatives enjoy weird, tacky stuff like this.
I have tried a variety of AI tools to simply Transcribe or Translate French to English from audio and video tracks.

One of my favourite French TV series with 35 episodes and there are no English subtitles for it.

With all the hype around AI I thought it would be a simple task using Open whisper, Open whisper faster and Vibe.

I Downloaded and tried all and every model, still no success.

I have extracted the audio with ffmpeg in different formats and changed the video formats but nothing helps

Absolutely useless
What’s your Google backup strategy? Last time I looked it required periodic manual steps.
> I see no real difference between 2 and 3.

This #2, so-called "Private Cloud Compute", is not the same as iCloud. And certainly not the same as sending queries to OpenAI.

Quoting:

“With Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can flex and scale its computational capacity and draw on larger, server-based models for more complex requests. These models run on servers powered by Apple silicon, providing a foundation that allows Apple to ensure that data is never retained or exposed.“

“Independent experts can inspect the code that runs on Apple silicon servers to verify privacy, and Private Cloud Compute cryptographically ensures that iPhone, iPad, and Mac do not talk to a server unless its software has been publicly logged for inspection.”

“Apple Intelligence with Private Cloud Compute sets a new standard for privacy in AI, unlocking intelligence users can trust.”
>Harder for humans

IDK if it's just me, but I went 6-0. Is something wrong with the computer player logic?
The same argument can be used for Tesla full self driving: basically it has to be (nearly) perfect, and after years of development, it's not there yet. What's different about LLMs?
I had interpreted the news as affecting all users of the other tools. Now found https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11139 with very few comments so I don't get the impression it's affecting many NewPipe users at present.
This is the first time I'm seeing a comment section that uses ssh for submitting comments which is pretty cool! I think it'll be a nice addition for any blog (along with a moderation system probably)
Fair, though the very first Macs came with MacWrite preinstalled.
What the hell are you talking about? I buy iPhone despite it being locked-down piece of shit garden, not because of it.
I would have also thought:

3. It lets users get software on to the ipad without going through the App Store (thereby escaping apples ability to clip the ticket on the way through).
Versus all others it’s more parsimonious (as has been noted elsewhere in this discussion) which is typically more desirable as a description of nature. So if it needs less and the others don’t have any more reason or evidence to be taken more seriously as a description of what is happening then shouldn’t it rank first as the best current interpretation of QM?
Well, the Passwords app is just the Passwords section in Settings moved out into its own app. It already exists on Windows, too, but maybe they are updating it to allow autofill without using a Chrome extension or add other features. It isn't the biggest change, just bringing attention to an existing feature that already competes with 1Password et al.
well, it's client. What could go wrong? I mean, it might not connect, right? I did understand it to some degree.
What I find ironic is that his privacy policy probably stores more data than the app. (there must be logs, or at least ephemeral connection tables on the webserver)

related, I think privacy policies should be local, on-device. Not a pointer to possibly changing data. Not requiring a network connection (and possible identification).
Agreed. The rumors beforehand made it sound Apple and OpenAI would practically be merging. This felt like a fig leaf so Apple could say you can access SOTA models from you iPhone. But for me personally, the deep integration with the ecosystem + semantic index are way way more interesting.
Doesn't have stable positions.
I agree and sometimes email authors to ask if they would compile (or should I say link?) a multipart article into a single piece before we put it into the second-chance pool. But even I was afraid of how long this one would turn out to be.
Sounds good to me. The decision to go for two tiny cores rather than one beefier core with an FPU was strange, and it would be nice to have a PSRAM interface like the ESP32s do. They seem to want to have one chip SKU which does everything rather than a million variants, hence why they made the flash external on the RP2040, so if they can extend that to one chip which can be configured with variable flash size, memory size, and has tons of PIOs...
First time in recent memory that I’ve been totally blown away with a macOS announcement. I’m excited for a majority of the features here. Maps, tiling, smart reader, info extraction.
You're in for a ride.

This barely scratches the surface on how much AI integration there's going to be in the typical life of someone in the 2030s.
I think that’ll require the crackpot team that made Calculator on iPad possible.
So, pick your Apple partnership long-arc:
1. Apple-Google[Search]
2. Apple-PaloAltoSemi
3. Apple-PortalPlayer
> Privacy protections are built in when accessing ChatGPT within Siri and Writing Tools—requests are not stored by OpenAI, and users’ IP addresses are obscured. Users can also choose to connect their ChatGPT account, which means their data preferences will apply under ChatGPT’s policies.

So does this mean that by default, a random Apple user won't have their ChatGPT requests used for OpenAI training, but a paying ChatGPT Plus customer will?

Does this also mean that if I connect my ChatGPT Plus account that my data will be used for training?

It just seems strange to have a lower bar for privacy for paying customers vs users acquired via a partnership.

(yes I'm aware that the "Temporary Chat" feature or turning off memory will prevent data being used for training)
I was an order of magnitude off, at least in the case of NVL72: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gb200-nvl72/

But the point stands, these systems occupy a niche that Apple Silicon is poorly suited to filling. They run normal Linux, they support common APIs, and network to dozens of other machines using Infiniband.
I'd be interested in the phone version just for the keyboard. Closest I've seen is https://www.clicks.tech/ but I do not have an iPhone.
Yes - but people don't want to pay $4k for a phone with 128GB of unified memory, do they?

And whilst the LLM's running locally are cool, they're still pretty damn slow compared to Chat-GPT, or Meta's LLM.
I second RoR. It is really original which is really rare in the overcrowded and generic shounen world
iOS users need to have the iPhone 15 pro.. so everyone else is also cooked on iOS.
You should see what ISO and ANSI do when you try to get a PDF of one of their standards. PDF with DRM, installing a DRM application on your computer that some claim cannot be uninstalled from your machine. You are also allowed to keep only a SINGLE copy of the PDF and only a single printout. It's just crazy.
It's already been working for quite some time: shared clipboard on iOS and macOS has supported photos and videos since more than 2 years ago. I'd expect drag-and-drop works the same way.
Apple also talked about their private compute cloud, which allows larger models and workflows to integrate with local AI models. It sounds like they will figure out which features require bigger models and which don't. So I think there is a lot of room for what you're mentioning in the future of this AI platform.

Plus, they talk about live phone call transcriptions, voice transcription in notes, the ability to correct words as you speak, contextual conversations in siri, etc. It 100% sounds like better voice recognition is coming
So, they were arrested for putting skid marks on the road?

Personally, I'm a hard lefty and believe people should have whatever sexual orientation and lifestyle they choose, but this is rediculous.

The wing-nuts will certainly make hay out of this one...
I would think it would be Firefox which would have to support iCloud for Windows.

If password managers could interfere with password fields in Firefox without its help, malware could do that, too.

Or is there a generic password manager API on Windows that Apple doesn’t implement?
I dislike the new search so much, just make search work like it does in every other application. If you're reinventing the wheel for something so basic that's the first sign you're doing something very wrong.
> US + Canadian cities just don't do a good job with this for some reason. Conservative, liberal, big, small; downtown cores all over North America are doing very poorly. I wonder if it's all down to the opioid crisis over here

I think that urbanism, or the absolute catastrophe that Anglophone North American is, is a big part of the problem.

People live far away from where they work, and downtowns are almost exclusively offices/commercial spaces. There is little reason to be there outside of working, so, outside of the obvious waste, during economic downturns and/or remote work spikes, there won't be a lot of people there. This leaves lots of abandoned/barely used space for people who have lost their work/housing to go to (the lack of social safety nets, especially in the US, contributes to these numbers).
I could always use more reminders that it’s going to rain in 13 minutes
You can set up a shortcut that will record you, hit the Whisper API, then copy to your clipboard. It's not as smooth as native transcription or the SOTA on Google phones but it's pretty good.
> no request to get out send any data

Correct: that means you are not relaying data to a network, or retrieving data from a network.

Your claim was "We don't store your data, period."

I can't know for sure, but for the vast majority of applications, data is stored somewhere, be it on the device, or on the server. High scores? Game state? Levels completed? You sure you're not storing data?

That's why it was rejected.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think you're doing anything shady, I don't think you're doing it in the general terms people worry about, I very much doubt anyone will find out, or care if they did.

It's just a useful example of something that plays well in the HN comments section but not in the real world, I didn't even realize until a few months back.

These are de facto legal statements now. Every store requires them, and they're not paying a lawyer to double check them for you. You can get away with it on side project games, but it's not something you can get away with at a business.
What country do you say you are from, Kingdom of Normway? Federal Republic of Germany? Peoples Republic of China? Commonwealth of Australia?
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True! I remember a quite funny meme where the iPad being held by Jobs during WWDC was photoshopped and replaced with 4 iPhones taped together: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ipad-spoofing

I still chuckle at that one.
Same, I'm actually a bit of a late adopter (only started using 1p in earnest once they came out with a Linux client) but it's been so great. I absolutely love the SSH agent in particular, it just works.

On topic, as a primarily Linux user I'm not in the target market for this (or any other Apple products or services really) and that's fine.
Is it that Sun was particularly respectable, or that it disappeared before the current run of subscription-driven lock-in revenue strategies took off? I can't imagine any reason to think they wouldn't be doing the same thing as everyone else if they were still around as an independent company today
How can you emulate learning when LLMs have no way to update their weights? LLMs don't even know what they do and don't know (hence hallucinations), so how would they even realize that something was new in the first place?

I could maybe see chatbots storing everything you ever said in a vector database for future lookup, but that's just memory.
I didn't watch the whole thing (will do), but could someone tell me already: can it be disabled on a Mac?
The OP mentioned that the AI they programmed is using a simple heuristic.
You can’t charge for a service so easily if it runs on-device.
Good. I already switched to iCloud Passwords for all my needs, but it's not very convenient now. No way to store bank card info, no way to store ssh passwords (I'm using fake domain myserver.ssh.com, but that's weird), no way to store key files. Hopefully it'll get better.
> their device.
Yeah, that's a great point. At the same time, it only takes a couple YouTubers/researchers to do some testing for us to know the answer
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The Windows app already existed, actually, as part of iCloud for Windows. It uses a Chrome extension for autofill. https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/set-up-icloud...
Pretty sure transcription is done locally on Pixel phones and it's pretty good. Not as good as ChatGPT, but most of the way there. If current iOS is like a 50, Pixel is like a 90 and OpenAI is like 98.
My thoughts exactly. More HN links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39307700
That's not how insurance companies work. Basically, the amount of YouTubers out there paying a monthly fee to

1. continue getting income while a dispute is ongoing,

2. potential payout if it goes to court/settled.

Basically, the insurance company would probably very rarely go to court; they'd only do it if they knew they would win hands-down. Otherwise, they would probably just send threatening letters (which lawyers are good at) and take a token sum (if anything).

In reality, getting a false DCMA takedown is pretty rare (if the amount of YouTube content is anything to go by).

And lets not mention all the free publicity you'd get when a YouTuber does get one, because they all apparently, rant and rave about how they got their video taken down when it is taken down.
Happy as long as there is a switch to toggle it all off somewhere. I find very little of this useful. Maybe someone does, and that’s great!

And my concern isn’t from a privacy perspective, just a “I want less things cluttering my screen” perspective.

So far though it looks like it’s decent at being opt-in in nature. So that’s all good.
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That's exactly what AirDrop is for. I think the commenter must just not know about it?
It's really weird seeing Apple say "sure, we allowed a console emulator, but PC emulation is still banned". If anything I expected them to allow the latter before the former.

On the other hand, the reason why UTM got banned is completely obvious: it lets users operate desktop software with a finger. That's the same reason why iDOS 2 got banned[0], and if iSH shipped with a graphical output they wouldn't have unbanned that either. The whole reason why the iPad exists at all as a separate product line with a separate UI toolkit from Macs is purely because Apple - specifically, Steve Jobs - said so.

Apple's entire foray into multitouch was borne out of Steve Jobs wanting to spite a 'friend'[1] at the pen computing division of Microsoft. It can be summed up with the phrase "who wants a stylus"?[2] That's why they continue to saddle the iPad with inferior, buggier phone software, because they think it's literally the only way a tablet can be made. So literally anything that might let someone turn an iPhone or an iPad into a Windows tablet is considered the worst kind of heresy in the Apple religion.

Anyway, I hope the EU smacks Apple down on this, because Apple very clearly promised that EU DMA compliant Notarization would only filter for technical compatibility, not taste.

[0] Yes, Apple said a bunch of stuff about how it "allows content without licensing", but we saw with Delta how easily that concern crumbles away.

[1] I do not believe Jobs could have friends in the way we understand the word.

[2] The Apple Pencil doesn't count. A "stylus" is a physical tool intended to work around software not being designed for touch.
Yeah that seems very reasonable/likely. The release of the training toolkit for Apple silicon too points that way: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples/tree/main/transfo...
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Hope we can disable all this crap.
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