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Re:Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to ... by safog on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:48PM (#36205271)
And yet somehow it's better to say transformer models and not AI?
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Re:Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to ... by jkestner on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:59PM (#36205428)
Sir, this is a developer conference.
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Re:Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to ... by tedmiston on Monday June 05, 2023 @07:44PM (#36205993)
The rest of the conference, sure. But the keynote has always been designed for a mainstream audience.
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Re:Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to ... by copperx on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:35PM (#36206500)
That wouldn't make sense. "Let's have a conference strictly for developers, but let's speak to a completely different audience in the keynote."
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Re:Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to ... by DonaldPShimoda on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:26PM (#36207673)
That is actually how it goes, though. The WWDC opening keynote is the typical Apple computer user's best look at what's coming up. It's not not technical, but it's very much deliberately made to be approachable to non-developers.

Whether you agree with this choice or not, it's the way things have been for at least as long as I've been watching (which is over a decade).

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Re:Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to ... by tedmiston on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:24PM (#36246371)
Think of it by analogy as the keynote for the conference is like the back cover summary of a book.

Despite technically being part of a developer conference, the intro keynote has always functioned more like a consumer-focused annual hardware and software update for Apple device users.

Hence things like the ever-present use of things like impressive-sounding "marketing benchmarks" that wouldn't pass as up to snuff on slides in a room of developers.

And also the very high level of abstraction so that non-technical users can understand the major updates — that's not exactly a trait one would use to describe a developer conference.

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Re:Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to ... by DonaldPShimoda on Monday June 05, 2023 @07:27PM (#36205793)
"AI" is a technically meaningless term. In contrast, a transformer model is a very specific technical thing.
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