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[–] flop_leash_973 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

As the general rule I feel the same about more or less all of the "AI" that is available to consumers from the likes of Google, OpenAI, etc.

It just seems more like a different way to do things with digital assistants or search engines that we have already been able to do for years.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

excluding comedy

[–] MehBlah 19 points 1 day ago

Much like many of us see no value in apple products.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As a normal user, I don't find Ai useful.

Like, anybody's, for much of anything other than generating fever-dreams and Plex art.

code, tho.

Bash scripts, maybe but, it's not necessary for me.

[–] Raiderkev 7 points 1 day ago

It's almost like siri already does what people want it to, and anything beyond that is a waste of time and resources

[–] alexc 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genmoji is a waste of space. The image generation is really bad (but then again, most of these platforms are). The writing tools are mediocre. About all that is moderately useful is that Siri seems a little better and processing commands.

If they want to start charging for this, I’m out.

[–] TheRealKuni 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they want to start charging for this, I’m out.

I’m not sure why they would charge for it, most of it happens on-device.

[–] alexc 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

True, but the RnD ain’t cheap. And, if everyone else starts charging (as I am sure they eventually will), Apple will follow.

[–] simplejack 4 points 18 hours ago

That’s why Apple charges an arm and a leg for RAM.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried it one time, and it's just as "slop" as the rest of generative AI. CEOs have no taste

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

CEOs have no ~~taste~~ clue

Techbro CEOs are especially susceptible to the hypetrain and then want it implemented somehow, despite the tech not living up to the imaginary magic bullet they got from their superficial info.

[–] Darc 12 points 1 day ago

I appreciate the summaries on my notifications. Some of my people text a book every time.

[–] Oaksey 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It still needs to learn. I'm personally trying to opt out of it watching everything I do, will have to be some pretty serious benefits for me to revert.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I feel like this can be generalized to AI in general for most people. I still don't see much usefulness or quality in output in the scenarios where I've been exposed to AI LLMs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

As a novice with little training, I've found AI to be helpful with running a server. Other than that, I depend on my own internet searches for info.

[–] plenipotentprotogod 58 points 1 day ago (18 children)

I feel the same way about AI as I felt about the older generation of smartphone voice assistants. The error rate remains high enough that i would never trust it to do anything important without double checking its work. For most tasks, the effort that goes into checking and correcting the output is comparable to the effort I would have spent to just do it myself, so I just do it myself.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They need to release Apple Strength and Apple Dexterity to make the experience more complete

[–] AlphaOmega 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That would require Apple wisdom

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[–] simplejack 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Probably worth noting, this survey was taken before 18.2 went live with a ChatGPT integration, image generation, etc.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even with integrations, a lot of the automatic replies basically boil down to “yes, thanks” and “no thank you” to every text. It isn’t even like… A longer message. It’s just two or three words, tops. If I’m going to use AI to write my texts, it’s going to be for something longer than a “yes lol” text.

[–] simplejack 3 points 1 day ago

Agreed.

IMHO, the only truly useful thing is writing tools and Siri being able to query ChatGPT for complex questions instead of telling people to pull out their phone and search the web.

The stuff everyone was actually interested in is likely in 18.4. On-screen awareness, integration with installed apps, contextual replies, etc.

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[–] dinckelman 141 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The only bit of excitement I've experienced about this, was when they announced it will be force-disabled in Europe, so I didn't have to turn it off myself

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Good to see Apple or continuing in their vein of having the worst implementation of an assistant product.

[–] Juice260 35 points 1 day ago

I went into settings on my phone and disabled it immediately

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I was trying to generate ai images and it couldn’t handle anything …. asking Siri questions amounts to nothing … it has a cool animation and sound for when you summon it and that’s about all … it’s a fucking dud.

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