IMHO I wouldn’t use a Google AI on my device. It’s one of the main reasons I went over to Apple. If they just buy the tech and run in solely as an Apple service, sure. But that’s Apple copping out and not doing it themselves.
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I use iPhone because I don't want to have anything to do with google.
The S24 uses Google AI. and later will charge you to edit the photos with those tools
im surprised to see Apple licensing out a potential iPhone service. not sure this is good news for the company. surprised to see the stock up.
As you said, Gemini is a loser product. Apple tried to develop an AI product. Apparently, it failed. So, it went after a loser product according to you. Who is the bigger loser here?
You could have spun it differently. Since Gemini is a loser product and Apple is about to unveil the best-in-class AI product, it must have gone to Google to tell it that they can use Apple's product to make Gemini better. You like this story better? /s
The same thing you call an iPhone user who uses AI to generate a picture? Or do you think iPhone users do not use generative AI to generate pictures?
It’d be nice if I needed ai on my phone. I kinda don’t want it. I can’t think of anything beyond timers or play a song I’ve used Siri for no matter what they add to it. I don’t really want it anticipating what I want because it’s usually wrong. I don’t want to have conversations with my phone.
It’s all a gimmick anyways. Takes longer to use then simply doing it yourself.
I read an article about “help” ai assistant on Amazon. That looked like a pain. The new clippy. It’s not helpful unless you’re brain dead and like wasting your time.
It’s all a gimmick anyways. Takes longer to use then simply doing it yourself.
I read an article about “help” ai assistant on Amazon. That looked like a pain. The new clippy. It’s not helpful unless you’re brain dead and like wasting your time.
I found an all new problem with Siri this weekend. My OG HomePod in my bedroom started speaking in a completely different voice and accent than what I had set up years ago. Not only that, depending on the response, like weather or translations, it changes, sometimes speaking in a male American voice and other times in a female British accent.
Apple has only had like 10 or 12 years to improve Siri but this is what happens when you inherit a business so successful you feel like you only need to go through the motions. I’m looking at you Tim and exec team.
Everyone has missed the AI train except for OpenAI. This is exactly what happens every time a new technology begins to disrupt a legacy market. We do not know the winners and losers but we do know that there are no winners and losers yet. Anything can happen over the next 5-10 years.
In typical Elon over the top style, X just released Grok-1, an LLM with 314 Billion parameters (compare with 70 Billion for LLAMA 2) as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Apple could pick that up for free.
x.ai
Open Release of Grok-1
We are releasing the weights and architecture of our 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model Grok-1.
It's for getting less ads and certainly worse target ads.
I don't have any problems with Google having information about me as long as they don't use it to show me ads.
Experience has taught me … what’s promised today … isn’t the same as what’s delivered tomorrow
Google doesn't collect any more information than if you went to their website manually.
Things which aren't very personal to me: IP address, search terms, operating system, hardware device, browser type, maybe they collect some resolution size and what fonts you have installed.
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Ben Bajarin thinks this would just be about infrastructure.