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A few days ago, OpenAI released live video integration with Advanced Voice mode for ChatGPT—point your phone at something and ask what it sees, and it will tell you pretty accurately. I thought it was just a cool trick until I read the top comment on their YouTube video announcement: “I'm screaming. As a visually impaired person, this is what I was eagerly waiting for. Still screaming! Thank you, Sam, Kev and the entire team over at OpenAI.”

https://www.youtube.com/live/NIQDnWlwYyQ

Google released a similar feature with Gemini 2.0 last week. While it doesn’t seem to be integrated with a smartphone app yet (at least on iOS), it can be used through the AI Studio browser interface.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394998
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ChatGPT thinks 9.11 > 9.9. I'm in no hurry.
What's the equivalent of @justsayinmice for NeurIPS papers? A lot of things in papers don't pan out in the real world.
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I'm still waiting for Google / Alexa / Siri to be the personal secretary promised a decade ago. Siri can set a timer or simple reminders, and with Apple Intelligence can do a bit more in a more natural language, but the reliability and accuracy drops off incredibly fast once things become more complicated, to the point where they're near-useless.

I'm still disappointed by what I'd consider to be simple stuff, like hands-free operation of my phone while driving, or even just simple instructions on operating the phone without needing to touch it (let alone look at it). I'm having trouble imagining what the product owners at Apple are actually expecting it to help us with - do they use it in their daily lives?

A family member is blind, and in many ways digital assistants and AI voice control have been a godsend, and Apple Intelligence should have been enabling in so many ways. Instead it's an exercise in frustration, advertising hope where there is nope, as well as being all but hostile to blind users (Apple's is the best of a bad bunch). Arguably the switch from tactile buttons to touch screen slabs has removed more autonomy for my relative than AI has added.

It's no wonder that Apple have found that people see no value in Apple Intelligence, then, because it doesn't add any practical value.
Obligatory mention to Openmodelica[1] which is an open source implementation based on the Modelica language. While I haven't used it yet, I was planning on exploring some of the features this holiday.

[1] https://openmodelica.org/
But it seems that the whole Apple Intelligence initiative is impacting iOS 19 [1], which to me makes Apple Intelligence detrimental to the whole OS. Some of the features are nice (smarter Siri, notification summary) others will probably be left to rot like the whole Animoji thing.

[1] https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneyco...
Polls are weird like that, especially for things that have strong brand affinity, like with soda or politics. If Apple falsely announced that they had a new 4D holographic battery and charged an extra $100 for it in new phones, I bet about 25% of users surveyed would report being satisfied with it.
> AI-enabled systems that analyze sensor data

I really wish publications like IEEE spectrum would call that machine learning. For all intents and purposes "AI" has become a marketing term for "consumer grade chat bots". It has a semi-magical / science fiction aura, and it's bordering on click bait. "Machine learning" is what this kind of signal processing based on training from large data sets. Next thing you know we'll start seeing anything that implements Dijkstra as "AI".
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This is somewhere between scarily naive and horrific bait.
For me it's not the text but the (lack of) formatting, like it's best viewed on a 640x480 screen from the 90's.
I'm deeply fatigued by this constant pushing of AI everywhere.

I now actively avoid any of the new AI features and try to block them as soon as possible. Yet they shoving it in all of my tools...notes..os..pics..chats..

There's scenarios where I do use and want the AI features like Cursor or occasionally chatgpt, but that's essentially it.
Yes, that calculus is probably happening right now, but my point was that we are to blame for this so violence against UHC is unacceptable. I see people that are mad at healthcare, and I am one of them. The industry is clearly evil, but we let them get there. We voted in the people that enabled them, that allowed lobbyist to wield influence in changing regulations. We voted in people that opposed the obvious solution of universal healthcare that works orders of magnitude better in nearly every other country out there. UHC is an evil company and their acts are despicable, but the system we keep voting in demands that a company like them will exist. If UHC disappeared today there would be a new company just as bad to take its place very quickly. Even if UHC were to be well regulated, the rest of the healthcare system in the US is just as bad. My core point is that we are to blame so, yeah, get mad but get mad at the actual source of the problem. Vote against people that help this industry. Write your reps. Tell people that they are stupid for voting to block universal healthcare and support those that do support it. Get mad at fake news sites that confuse and lie about this issue and tell people they are harming themselves and others by listening to them. We are to blame and we are the ones that need to change.
Not if your domain is the water. White is the best background color for details.

That said, maybe the ground should have been brown or green.
Career risk is also a very real motivation. If you are an executive at a company whose competitors are jumping on the AI bandwagon, but you are not, you will have to justify that decision towards your superiors or the board and investors. They might decide that you are making a huge strategic blunder and need to be replaced. Being proven right years later doesn't do much for you when you no longer have a job. And if you were wrong, then things look even worse for you. On the other hand, if you do get on the bandwagon yourself, and things go sideways, you can always point to the fact that everyone else was making the same mistake.
Because most people will buy the $100 thing over the $130 thing even though the $130 thing is better made.
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I've been quite worried about it at this point. However I see that "this is not going to happen" is likely not going to help me. So I rather go with the flow, use it where reasonable even if it's not clear to me whether AI is truly ever leaving the hype stage.

FWIW I was allowed to use AI at work since ChatGPT appeared and usually it wasn't a big help for coding. However for education and trying to "debug" funny team interactions, I've surely seen some value.

My guess is though that some sort of T-shaped skillset is going to be more important while maintaining a generalist perspective.
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I didn't know HTTP/2 had caught on. I thought the current meta was HTTP/1.1 by default, and HTTP/3 if you need it.
I agree. My iPhone usage is mainly to check email/whatsapp/calendar and my banking apps. Rarely take pictures or record videos.

Since my company uses exchange, email and calendar cannot be accessed outside the outlook app, not even by the iOS widgets which renders them next to useless for me.
I'm not sure what you mean by "should". If your job is to build things that aren't going to fail in ways that later end the company or hurt people, then finding ways to keep the:

> But we could make an additional million next quarter if we ship it now

...crowd in check is probably what you should be doing.
Installation is usually the most expensive part, and can easily send the total price into 5 digits of $, especially in a retrofit, depending on the market.
While I use LLMs I also consider myself an LLM skeptic in terms of its role in upending the world and delivering the value promised by the folks hyping it up most aggressively.

However, using ChatGPT voice mode and considering the impacts on accessibility, especially if that quality of interactive voice functionality is able to be integrated well into the operating systems of devices we use every day, is very exciting.
It might not be enough for you, but maybe you're not the target audience. His blog is quite popular so clearly it's enough for a lot of folks.

What is "good" communication depends on the social context of the communication, the audience, etc. A novel probably shouldn't be written in the same style as a project status update document. IMO one of the downsides of people in our modern education system being drilled on the "one true way" of communicating for a small handful of contexts (position paper essays, tactical business memos) is that they begin to think that is the only way to communicate ever in any context to any audience and forget that different people have different tastes and in a lot of contexts catering to your audience's taste is what matters.
Modelica Language -> Modelica By Example -> https://mbe.modelica.university/

Took me under 5 seconds to find.
The E-mail categorization is so bad that it's totally useless. Most of my E-mails are categorized wrong. I can't see how anyone thought it was a good idea to deploy this.
Not OP or at Microsoft, but also get the same pressure. Our business is financially invested in the hype, so it makes sense.

Less about being able to truly say a lot of people use the thing/find benefit. The first part is fine
You don’t recognize default HTML appearance?
The image playground is fun, but in many ways Siri is worse. Previously I could dictate an entire command + message, and now you have to dictate the command and then wait until it switches to that modality, then sending the command.

Notification summaries are great. A couple of my children tend to message a coherent single thought across a rapid-fire set of messages, which previously was condensed down to something like "Person - 7 messages" and now is "Person wants to know what is for dinner as they are currently on a hike and want to time accordingly". It has provided excellent summaries.

Though apparently it adds some notification delay, though honestly haven't experienced that on mobile.
Yep.

I think their days are numbered anyway. Unless you're going to project beyond 100", the worst LCD TV is going to blow away the best projector. Once a 98-100" TV is $1000-1500, forget it.
I personally know people that would claim a phoneless phone is useful, right away, without having used the device once, as long at it was released by Apple.
The vastness of the Pacific and indeed the planet's oceans is something I noticed was missing from the article. I think of it in terms of detection, you can have the sophisticated technology and perhaps focus it on one area or choke point, but in general it will be very hard to search the entire ocean for a nuclear ballistic missile sub.

Drop a submarine-sized object at a random location on land (a much, much smaller search space) and I bet it would take a long time to find despite all the earth observation satellites at our disposal. The oceans are much bigger, and have a whole other dimension (depth) and the the subs move.
Why would you even tell in the first places derivatives are simply fractions ? They’re not, unless in some very specific physical approximations and in that case don’t try to do anything funky, sticks with the basics stuff
The AI I have found the most value from is the OCR for copy paste which has been availble in Samsung phones for years. Everything else is a gimick. VoiceAI only wows you once and gets tiring very quickly.
Here are some examples. Looks like a simplified framework for writing physical and electrical system simulations.

https://mbe.modelica.university/
This feels off, though. We may be at the point where it is hard to keep any particular thing quiet, sure. But we are also at the point where it is rather easy to park a ton of things around that are very easy to keep quiet until we want a lot of noise.

That is, if you are going to first principals, I have to ask why you don't have a ton of unmanned drones down there. Literally remove the need to move somewhere for the people on board.
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It's a good advice indeed. But there is a slight problem with it.

Young people can learn and fight for their place in the workforce, but what is left for older people like myself? I'm in this industry already, I might have missed the train of "learn to talk with people" and been sold on the "coding is a means to an end" koolaid.

My employability is already damaged due to my age and experience. What is left for people like myself? How can I compete with a 20 something years old who has sharper memory, more free time (due to lack of obligations like family/relationships), who got the right advice from Carmack in the beginning of his career?
It doesn’t work well on anything where you can’t manage the window width. My eyes have to travel too far to read the content, slowing me down.
It does say 73% of "Apple Intelligence users". So I would assume that 100% of them are not just iPhone owners but people who have actually used Apple Intelligence, to some degree.
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This reads a bit like an article from "the daily wtf", I used to frequent that one often [0].

[0] https://thedailywtf.com/
Are you saying you can’t have apple intelligence on your 15 pro max? Yes you can - it’s one of the supported models.

I’m not sure what difficulty you’re having with timers. It’s quite easy to do multiple timers: “hey siri, timer one hour”, or “hey siri, start a pasta timer for 9 minutes”, or “hey siri how long is left on the pasta timer?”

I use it all the time.
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I've been referring specifically to

> Ugh, the U.S. supported the Taliban during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

by ThaGf.

That is not speculation at all.

But one can extrapolate from that point onwards, following a certain behavourial pattern of one specific party.

Or maybe just reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art,_Truth_and_Politics

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/lecture/

which traces these patterns mostly trough South America, but there is some Iraq in there, too.

Anything else? Do ya wanna have some freedom fries with that?
That’s a really nice build.
As a light Siri user since the iPhone 4s, I was looking forward to the better interpretation and context window that an LLM service typically provides.

Maybe this is not the case if "Apple Intelligence" is a different silo in the OS.
There's no reason to take Trump or Musk at face value. DoGE is an excuse to weaken or abolish government departments that Republicans dislike.
Sorry, I think we are talking about different stuff.

I was referring to Copilot for M365, which costs 30 USD / month and targets biz users.

Github Copilot is definitely worth it.
Paul was personally promoting it on twitter and suggesting war (as were other well connected figures).
I'm noticing that the pricing is completely different on my desktop and mobile - I'm seeing the M8 Flip Security+ for $79 on mobile and $116 after sale cuts on desktop. I don't think it's a currency issue, I think it's a "my VPNs are set to exit IPs in different countries" thing. High in CA (with currency set to Global US$), low with Swedish IP.
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I think LLMs work best when you go to them and know what you’re getting and how hard you’re going to work to get something good.

When it’s just there… you expect something better than that and you can’t quite “work it” the same as when you’re iterating through the native interface, or API.

I use LLMs a lot, all day long, but I’ve disabled Apple Intelligence.

[I’m also salty how bad typing still is on an iPhone and they’re messing with this stuff.]
That's not my experience.

You are correct about the culture of privacy at Apple and that is the awesome thing about Apple. The big "Allow Apple to collect anonymous data to help improve..." screen you get when setting up your device is the master opt-out switch where you can turn all data collection off.

For those that leave it on I think Apple have become very good about finding means to acquire user engagement data in a privacy-compliant way. For starters, by identifying user data with a cohort identifier when they can (which will cluster hundreds or thousands of user's data into arbitrary groups). Or if specific user engagement is wanted in order to see if usage patterns change they might create a rotating random identifier (that is regenerated to a new random identifier every 11 months so as to not build up an identifying profile).

I think the bigger question for me is if they have the tools and teams in place that can take full advantage of that data to improve user experience. Or if it is just a firehose of data points that are left instead to just curdle in a large vat.
In my experience, they don't, you can just run more of them and you can stick them behind a load-balancer (regular HTTP reverse proxy). You can scale both etcd and apiserver pretty easily. Of course you have less control in cloud environments, I have less experience with that.
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Massive +1 - Bambu changed everything for me.
I've been in the hobby for 10 years, built multiple Vorons from source & kit, and heavily modified multiple Prusa machines (Full Bear). Nothing compares to how easy Bambu made everything. My wife, who has seen me print for all that time without being able to figure it out, can now print items without hassle or oversight on the X1C.

Another way I can tell that Bambu changed everything is through second-hand market prices. Before Bambu, I could sell most 3D printers for not much less than I purchased them or more, depending on the mods. I just struggled to sell a Voron 2.4 300 for $800 (near $1800 build price after extras). There is still a market for enthusiast printers, but the leap in user-friendliness is known. What they provided for the cost was a vast market leap.
Apple has to balance it, clearly investors want to shove AI into everything but most users simply don't care or want to be reminded its "AI" every moment. Apple has to walk the line between both of these groups.

You are right about investors, but how many of those investors have also funded and continue to push for vaporware products and features? We have seen this many many times over the last couple of years. So I do think their importance needs to be downplayed since they are clearly making bad decisions.

Also, this article was about customers not investors.

Apple for years has been marking "Siri" as far more than just the voice assistant and instead encompassing many of their ML systems. For example the "Siri App Suggestions". I don't think that rebranding it would make any sense.
Vim land seems much larger than I expected.
Also see Laos [0]

>> Between 1964 and 1973, the US dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Laos, nearly equal to the 2.1 million tons of bombs the US dropped on Europe and Asia during all of World War II, making Laos the most heavily bombed country in history relative to the size of its population; The New York Times notes this was "nearly a ton for every person in Laos"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos#Independence_and_communis...
It's not what he's doing that bothers me. It's the desire to blast it out to everyone and be so public about his experiments with an air of scientific advice and authority. What he's doing is not science or scientific in the slightest. Just because you use scientific tests and devices and such doesn't mean you're doing science, or doing anyone (including yourself) any good.

It sends the message to people, if you're rich, you can make up your own rules. Well, life doesn't work that way as he is soon to find out. If there is one thing I have seen in my days of living on this earth is that life loves irony.
I don't understand the point.

Apple users already let apple (or at least their device) know everything about them.

If a person is blind and can't read or type onto their phone, a tool that can reliably pull up messages app and send Dad a letter is a godsend.
I said the same thing to a previous company before I was let go. Confused why they were butchering their business strategy in favor of a gold rush.

The main benefit of LLMs was already abundantly clear: literally just chat with it in day to day work when you can. Ask it questions about accounting, other domains it knows, etc. That's like up to 10-20% performance increase on tasks if you align OK.

Still, they were in search of a unicorn, and it was really tiring to be asked regularly how AI could help my workflows. They were not even spending a real budget on discovering "groundbreaking" use cases, meanwhile hounding us to shove a RAG-bot into every product they owned.

The only thing that made sense was that it was a marketing strategy to promote visibility, but they would not acknowledge that or tell us that directly (but still--it was not their business strategy to get NEW customers).
I just wish I could buy a phone that has the same look and feel (sound, screen, etc.) as the 5110, is compatible with modern networks, and has a modern battery.
Some will. Some won't. The ones that cut engineering will be hurting by 2027, though, maybe 2026.

It's almost darwinian. The companies whose managers are less fit for running an organization that produces what matters will be less likely to survive.
Different assistant, but I'm still astounded that my Fire TV can't understand the words "play"/"pause"/"unpause"/"continue" consistently across all apps despite having a dedicated button on the remote for doing just that. The bar is low.
someone else made a similar comment already, and I just don't understand why you default to 27% liking it. Of those responding, less than half said that AI was even a consideration in their new phone purchase. So we already see more people do not care about AI from the off. Of those reporting using the feature, it says 73% state they don't care about it after using. That does not mean the other 27% said they did like it. It is not a binary option of Yes/No. The numbers are just not there in TFA, and you're jumping to conclusions