Apple Intelligence suffered some serious setbacks recently and as expected it’s made a certain group of people very happy…
Their notification summarizing feature made some crazy mistakes that caused some serious misinformation and they had to pull it back.
It was certainly a reminder of the inherent unpredictability of AI models.
But there’s always a group of people that jump for joy whenever AI falters in some way and this time was no different.
Because they are trying to cope with the fact that AI is getting insane — so they’re desperate for any sign that it’s not as good as it seems to be.
Now just because one company made some mistakes in one feature in one AI product, that obviously means that the whole AI thing is “trash” after all, right?
Lol.
Just so desperate for any sort of confirmation bias to give themselves hope for the future.
Like for goodness sake, what more do you want to see before you realize that this AI thing is actually huge?
It is not a fad. It’s a big deal and it’s taking over. Slowly but surely — and no amount of copium can change this.
Did you not see the astonishing progress of Midjourney and other AI image generators?
Or didn’t you try it yourself? Or what do you have to say about that?
This wasn’t some cleverly carefully crafted corporate demo to hide all the flaws in a half-baked product.
This was (and is) something that anyone could check out for themselves for $10 — lol you can try DALL-E 3 right now in Bing Image Creator for free.
Lol and what if there’s hype?
First of all hype has nothing to do with AI in particular — there’s always been hype in business and marketing.
Sensationalizing what a product does to convince investors or users is nothing new.
And kust because there’s hype in AI doesn’t take away the real-world impacts that the models have had and will continue to have.
Sam Altman is always going to keep promising heaven and earth — that’s his job.
Lol is he supposed to be the one to point out that their models are not perfect and make mistakes?
And yes, so what if GPT had issues with simple tasks like counting r’s in a strawberry?
Did that suddenly diminish the insane value it created for hundreds of millions of people on the globe with ChatGPT and all those pretentious GPT wrapping services?
Look how ChatGPT grew so fast.
Can you imagine how many millions of people visited that site or opened that app in the past week. Past day.
Billions of chats. Tens of billions of messages.
But let it fail at some stupid gotcha question and suddenly that means ChatGPT was useless after all (right?). Suddenly it’s nothing more than “glorified autocomplete” (another nonsense copium term).
And btw it’s not like Apple is even leading the AI race or something. They don’t seem to be doing much of anything in that department.
If they used GPT for the summarizations this would probably never have happened.
But they were too arrogant to let Apple Intelligence be just another GPT wrapper — they created their own in-house model to work offline — and make their newer iPhones more justifiable.
The fact is AI will only continue to rapidly improve and encroach into more and more human jobs.
We can stick our heads in the sand and pretend like this isn’t [already] happening.
Or we can adapt for the meantime — and play our part in shaping a future where AI works not against but for us — and not a few.