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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple acknowledges AI errors in latest fix
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 21:55:35 -0000 (UTC)
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<Nick Charles> wrote:
> On 1/7/2025 3:04 AM, Chris wrote:
>> 
>> The BBC have reported several issues with wildly wrong AI-generated news
>> summaries over the last few weeks. Apple has now said that the Apple
>> Intelligence features are in "beta" and will be "clarified" in a future
>> update.
>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge93de21n0o
> 
> Lots of "AI" companies have/will be admitting to errors.  "AI" is 
> nowhere near ready to always answer questions correctly.

Agree. 

> For that reason - and many others - I ignore "AI" anything.  I will read 
> and make my own conclusions.   I don't need a digital Magic 8 Ball to 
> tell me what to do.

Used appropriately things like chatgpt can be very useful and speed up some
tasks efficiently. I do use it for work on occasion. The problems come when
used without human supervision/involvement. 

>> Is AppInt going to be a massive white elephant? At the moment it's
>> certainly discouraging me from upgrading my phone rather than the other way
>> around.
> 
> "AI" in general is already a white elephant.  Billions of dollars 
> invested with NO return at all.  Microsoft has even given instructions 
> on how to change the (originally dedicated) "Copilot" key on new Windows 
> PC keyboards to a different (actually useful) function of your choice.

Copilot has been incredibly useful for coding. A lot of software
development revolves around googling for solutions and copilot has made
that much quicker. 

> And of course, there was the "Windows Recall" spyware disaster last 
> year.   It was quite amusing to watch MS backpedal on that.
> 
> "AI" is now the biggest hype ever, surpassing "Y2K" 28 years ago.  Yes, 
> 28 years ago.  It started in 1997.

Y2K wasn't hype. A lot of work went into it becoming a non-event.