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Subject: Re: apple intelligence not so intelligent
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On 2025-01-16 21:38, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-01-17 00:48:49 +0000, Rick said:
>> On 1/16/2025 6:55 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-16 22:18:10 +0000, Rick said:
>>>> On 1/16/2025 4:15 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-16 16:02:46 +0000, badgolferman said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Apple has come under intense scrutiny for rolling out an underbaked
>>>>>> AI-powered feature that summarizes breaking news — while often
>>>>>> butchering it beyond recognition.
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> So, no different to any other idiotic AI nonsense. They should all 
>>>>> be avoided by any sane person because they're all just useless, 
>>>>> over-hyped crap that they are. Hopefully it will be just another 
>>>>> quickly gone tech fad.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> AI is nothing more than software, which means that, like any other 
>>>> software program, it is only as good as it the way it is programmed.
>>>
>>> And hence why so-called "Artifical Intelligence" is not actually 
>>> intelligence of any kind. It's simpl;y a computer program doing what 
>>> it has been programmed to do. It does NOT "learn" and it does NOT 
>>> "think", and it can never do either of those things.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I agree that a lot of AI isn't very good (and Apple is clearly on 
>>>> that list), but from the limited testing I have done, I think 
>>>> certain more mature LLM products like ChatGPT and Copilot are 
>>>> actually quite useful when used properly.
>>>
>>> Not really. ChatGPT has numerous issues as well.
>>
>> That's why I say "when used properly".
> 
> You can use it as "properly" as you like, but the entire idea is 
> massively flawed, so it will never work properly at all. AI is simply 
> useless, over-hyped crap that all the idiot tech companies are jumping 
> on the bandwagon of as the latest fad.
> 


So said every nay-sayer about every new idea ever.