Re:Apple's AI Strategy in a Nutshell
by dymk on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @07:35AM
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Apple will be selling iPhone 15s for the next 3 months that won’t get the AI features they just announced. When you buy an iPhone, you generally get software updates giving you new features for a few years at least. What they did with AI is kind of shitty, given their track record.
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I mean, I’m glad not to have this AI stuff. I’m glad I have a buffer of iPhones that don’t support this AI when I will be forced to downgrade to a newer device from first SE.
If you don't trust Apple to disable AI when you ask them to, why use them?
I'd like to have a smarter Siri though. Guess I'm stuck with an idiot who can't even understand the word "bedroom" anymore (though it worked fine until a recent update)
On the other hand, if your phone can't run a model, it can't run a model, you can't ship people a new AI coprocessor to solder onto their iPhone's motherboard.
That’s true, but they’ve made a lot of noise about “private cloud compute” to run models too large for your device. They’re making the odd decision to not offer it as a subscription for devices less than a year old.
They’ve also certainly been working on LLMs for longer than the iPhone 15 and 14 have existed. They knew what it’d support before announcing those devices.