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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: AI: "Apple Intelligence" - personal and private + ChatGPT 4o
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:37:16 -0700
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On 2024-06-11 15:10, Your Name wrote:
> On 2024-06-11 21:42:25 +0000, Alan Browne said:
> 
>> On 2024-06-11 16:33, Your Name wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-11 12:09:40 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>>
>>>> But adding features is where they have to go to keep relevant and 
>>>> abreast of the competition if not passing it.
>>>
>>> AI is not a "feature". It's just another useless bandwagon-jumping 
>>> gimmick to sell yet another new phone to stupid people. Thankfully the
>>
>> Given my experience with it (ChatGPT), and given the failings of 
>> "helpful" features such as Siri, it's plain you're complaining w/o 
>> knowing what it's all about and what it can and cannot do.
> 
> The point was that 95% of users don't care what it can and cannot do, 
> even if they understood it.
> 
> "Artificial intelligence" (an oxymoron) is mainly for those who don't 
> have any real intelligence and/or are too lazy to do things themselves. 
> Same with "smart" devices, which are mostly just incredibly stupid.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>> silliness can (reportedly) be turned off ... yet something else I 
>>> need to include on the growing "turn off" list for on every device I 
>>> set up for people.  :-(
>>
>> When you setup for "people" you should let them decide what they want 
>> - not impose your desires and prejudices upon them.
> 
> The people I set up devices for are tech novices who just want to use 
> the devices for simple things (like 95% of users do). The fewer 
> complications and pointless "features" there are, the better it is for 
> them ... and, yes, for me as well.
> 
> Time Machine gets turned off, touch gestures on the mouse (other than 
> scrolling up / down) get turned off, as did the old "squeeze me" button, 
> etc. and so now will this useless AI nonsense.
> 
> If it's something they specifically want or actually need, then it can 
> get turned back on. That is what they pay me to know as their tech 
> expert. The reality is that none of the things I turn off has ever 
> actually needed to be turned on again ... because they *are* just 
> marketing gimmicks that most normal people simply do not need nor want.
> 
> 

Wow.

So no one ever learns anything new.

Got it.