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I am shocked at how quickly they have obsoleted their M3 that only had 18TOPS across the board.
Well, okay, I'm not that surprised. Apple has a history of that.
 
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Say what you want about Apple (and judging from the initial posts many here seem to be avid haters), but they know how to put to good use any technology regardless of who invented it and add meaningful features which are actually helpful for their users and which make their products desirable.

Just compare this announcement with Microsoft Recall and you will hopefully understand what I mean.
 
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>"AI" apparently now stands for "Apple Intelligence"

This subhead is cooked up by the writer, Brandon Hill, apparently as clickbait.

Apple did not associate the term "Apple Intelligence" with AI in its presentation.

My general take of the presentation, which basically boils down to a more capable Siri with latitude to take certain limited in-app actions:

Adding conversational interface (or in this case, augmenting an existing one with ChatGPT) should be a no-brainer, given the positivity accorded to the ChatGPT 4o demo. 4o wasn't better than 4, but the human-like interaction is basically the holy grail for computer interface in most every sci-fi flick.

What Apple did with Siri+ChatGPT is just common sense. As an MS stockholder, it's hard to imagine how Microsoft yet again flubbed its way to the new paradigm, with a controversial feature (Recall) that nobody asked for.

MS' Recall is akin to the recent Apple misstep with its "Crushed" ad for iPad Pro. The public is already getting bad vibes from AI in general, and yet here is a product that guarantees to turn every security & privacy advocates into ravening madmen.

Nadella has done a lot of good for MS stock price. Recall won't be one of his highlights.

BTW, Recall is effectively dead. Changing the feature from opt-out to opt-in effectively means that adoption rate will drop from an expected 70-80%+ down to the teens or single-digits.

I expect MS will scramble to intro a voice assistant next year to (once again) catch up to Apple. The irony is that, in being an OpenAI patron and having priority access to ChatGPT, MS squandered a year's lead in LLM development, and is now relegated to the follower role.
 
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Read Paul Thurrott's article on how the vast majority of media got it quite wrong about Recall. Poorly researched if at all, shooting from the hip at best, but accepted by most without question because it feeds the fear beast, humanity's most destructive weakness.
 
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>Read Paul Thurrott's article on how the vast majority of media got it quite wrong about Recall.

I'm not surprised he came to MS' defense considering his background. He was (is?) a Windows blogger cum evangelist.

I used to frequent Thurrott's Windows Weekly (along with Foley) for a time. I lost interest once he went freelance and hired a bunch of other personalities to write stuff for his new site--probably at the same time I lost interest in Windows progress. MS stumbled through a long dark period from Win Mobile to Win8 to UWP to Win Phone to Surface Duo, etc etc. The list of failures is endless. Nadella came in and cleaned up some of the mess, and bumped up the stock, but per this current fiasco, there's always room for more.

One thing I still can't wrap my head around, is how MS spent 13+ BILLION on OpenAI, to get first dibs on its tech, and yet here Apple is reaping the fruits of all that investment BEFORE MS can do its AI spiele. ChatGPT app for iOS before Windows/Android? Check. LLM voice assist? Check. What does MS have? Copilot, which gets the worst grades from existing LLMs, and Recall, which got so much pushback that it's now effectively dead.
 
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Notton said:
I am shocked at how quickly they have obsoleted their M3 that only had 18TOPS across the board.
Well, okay, I'm not that surprised. Apple has a history of that.
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The announcement for all of these features, displayed a graphic that included all the M chips M1 through M4 plus the last A17 Pro. What are you referring to?
 
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bluvg said:
Read Paul Thurrott's article on how the vast majority of media got it quite wrong about Recall. Poorly researched if at all, shooting from the hip at best, but accepted by most without question because it feeds the fear beast, humanity's most destructive weakness.
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I read his articles and then I read the comments absolutely thrashing him because his arguments are "Its currently opt-in", you can trust Microsoft, and you need account escalation.
My favorite is "the claims that Recall is easily hacked are easy to debunk" and mind you this is days after multiple research groups posted hack tools and showed off everything Recall saves is sorted in plaintext and how easy it is to exfiltrate that data.
In other words he's a clown.
 
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Love the name...

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baboma said:
One thing I still can't wrap my head around, is how MS spent 13+ BILLION on OpenAI, to get first dibs on its tech, and yet here Apple is reaping the fruits of all that investment BEFORE MS can do its AI spiele. ChatGPT app for iOS before Windows/Android?
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The OFFICIAL ChatGPT Android App from OpenAI was released on July 21st, 2023. I'm not sure what you're talking about here.
 
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>The OFFICIAL ChatGPT Android App from OpenAI was released on July 21st, 2023. I'm not sure what you're talking about here.

Yes, in my rant I misspoke. The object of my ire is the MS execs who squandered all that time and money, and still come up laggards, as usual. Bing Chat was supposed to bring Bing into search eminence. It didn't. To be fair, neither did Bard/Gemini.

All the major AI players are struggling to find monetization for AI/LLM. OpenAI itself admitted that it had no inkling that ChatGPT would be a runaway success. But some catch on faster than others. And some are more competent at the user experience than others.

OpenAI's ChatGPT 4o demo indicated that it has a clue, even if it was more style than substance. Apple's approach, shown today, is a meat-and-potatoes approach that tackles the UX basics, along with a capable and more empowered voice assistant.


>>Are you aware of the TOPS performance of M1 through M3? They're slower than A17

>Do you want the computer that's always with you (your cell phone) to have the most power, or the one you use less?

I think you both miss the point. A17 & M3 serve different markets, and they're developed on separate and parallel tracks. They'll continue to leapfrog each other in NPU power, because NPU capability is rapidly improving. One can't "obsolete" the other.

Being "obsolete" means no longer capable of current usage. iOS 18 & iPadOS 18's AI features announced today are available to the vast majority of Apple devices, incl M1.
 
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"The company is notoriously slow to jump on emerging trends in tech"
Really ? One of most advanced companies on earth, the inventors of the modern smartphones, etc., etc.
Maybe it is "slow to jump" only when something is invented by others.😀
 
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I get your point, but now let me ask you a question...

Do you want the computer that's always with you (your cell phone) to have the most power, or the one you use less?

*Not a trick question
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The one I can actually do serious work with. A phones form factor does not lend itself to many things. It's super neat and incredibly powerful for what it is, but it's a device built on compromise, there are better tools for the job.
 
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Really ? One of most advanced companies on earth, the inventors of the modern smartphones, etc., etc.
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The WAN-connected all-touchscreen PDA was a thing for many years before Apple 'invented' renaming it the smartphone. And they had 3rd party applications and the ability to copy & paste at time of launch, rather than needing to wait a year for the next hardware revision to be released, too.
 
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edzieba said:
The WAN-connected all-touchscreen PDA was a thing for many years before Apple 'invented' renaming it the smartphone. And they had 3rd party applications and the ability to copy & paste at time of launch, rather than needing to wait a year for the next hardware revision to be released, too.
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Yes a thing, Apple did it in the right way with the right ideas. I prefer to give apples to Apple. 🙂
Also a car is simply a cart with a motor and a cart is simply a table over four wheels.
 
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