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Subject: Re: The facts show Apple is two generations behind Android in AI (artificial intelligence)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 06:00:02 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote at 15:24 this Wednesday (GMT):
> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-07-31 05:50:03 +0000, candycanearter07 said:
>>> -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote at 02:01 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-07-20 11:07:59 +0000, -hh said:
>>>>>> On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:
>>>>>>> "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been
>>>>>>> since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024
>>>>>>> during the Pixel 8 launch. With Google's Pixel 9 family due to be announced
>>>>>>> in August, Apple's iPhone will be two generations behind Android's AI
>>>>>>> efforts before it has even left the Cupertino stage."
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2024/07/18/apple-iphone-16-pro-max-apple-intelligence-ai-sales-demand-new-iphone/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What do you expect from a company whose advertising budget dwarfs R&D.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But how does it actually matter how far someone is "behind" when the
>>>>>> shiny new widget still isn't all that great, and doesn't actually
>>>>>> reliably provide meaningful productivity gains?
>>>>>> uttinf
>>>>>> Case in point, AI asked to render salmon swimming upstream:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/yijd3c/they_asked_an_ai_engine_to_recreate_a_salmon/>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ignoring the fact that AI is utterly useless and nothing more than
>>>>> another fad  gimmick ...
>>>> 
>>>> Well, it may be a fad .. or perhaps not (at least for certain niches).
>>>> Real point is that it is still formative and immature today.
>>> [snip]
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I personally dislike AI.
>> 
>> As far as I can find, the only people who actually like AI are those 
>> making money from creating it or pointlessly adding it to every product 
>> they sell to get gullible to upgrade yet again.  :-\
>
> "AI" has so many different meanings that it depends on who you ask. 
>
> Most "AI" is some form of statistical modelling - ML, ANN, DL, CNN - which
> has been around for decades and is very powerful & useful. In the right
> context. 
>
> Trying to disentangle real AI - oxymoron? - versus snakeoil "AI" is tricky.
> Even in the scientific community there's little distinction by the funders,
> propagating the uncertainty. 


Yeah, I wish companies would just say like "algorithm" or "learning
model".
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