• Same is true of many other AI assistants. They’re really neat as a technical exercise, or for a bit of fun for 10-20 minutes. But when it comes to folding them into workflows, the utility is harder to grasp.

    Couple that with the extreme energy requirements of these systems, the worries about where the training data comes from, plus the fact that it feels like every single corporation is just flailing around “AI” because they see dollar signs… I’m pretty over it.

  •  TehPers   ( @TehPers@beehaw.org ) 
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    212 hours ago

    We tried the iPhone 16 recently, upgrading from a 14. Apple’s AI seemed basically useless. That combined with the dynamic island not respecting reduced motion settings lead us to return the phone instead and keep the 14. The old phone worked fine, but we wanted to try to get ahead of the incoming administration just in case.

    Maybe the 17 will be better?

  •  ditty   ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) 
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    1518 hours ago

    So far Apple Intelligence can help with writing, making pictures/emojis, and summarizing notifications, websites, emails, Messages, etc. I just don’t see a need for AI to do any of those tasks though. The picture one maybe

  •  veee   ( @veeesix@lemmy.ca ) 
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    317 hours ago

    I found that Siri is a little more useful for answering questions with ChatGPT, but outside of that I don’t think I’ve come across another situation where I’ve needed Apple Intelligence.