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Really, it’s one of the laziest takes you can make right now because it requires no critical thought aside from buying into the narrative the AI industry wants you to. There is no “AI race” because generative AI is a product with no use case, and it takes an enormous amount of energy (and stolen content) to run.
I have an iPhone 15 right now, so no Apple Intelligence. I don’t have ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI apps installed. For anyone with an Android phone right now, what generative AI features are you actually using and why? I’m not talking about asking Gemini something that Google Assistant could do just as easily; I don’t mean making AI “art”. What generative AI features does your phone have that actually make your life easier? I doubt there are any.
And I haven’t even talked about the impacts of people using all of these AI “features” because all of them require way more data centers than we have right now. Right now, cities like Memphis are being polluted by these data centers just so you can chat with Gemini or whatever AI app you’re using.
Normally I hate it when people say stuff like “old Apple would never do this”, but I think it’s true here. Really, I don’t even think 2015 Apple, or 2018 Apple, or even 2021 Apple would make anything like Apple Intelligence. Not out of the goodness of their hearts obviously (this is the same company that uses slave labor in the DRC to mine cobalt for their iPhone batteries), but because it’s just a stupid thing to do, both from a financial and a PR perspective.
And similarly, I don’t think Apple stopped focusing on AI as much and “losing the AI race” because they now care about the environment, or how new data centers are being disproportionately built in Black and low income communities, or even because they want to make sure new features aren’t half-baked before they roll them out in the future. I simply think it’s a business decision to focus on making better products that people actually want rather than buying into the AI hype.
I’m not asking anyone to applaud Apple for making a business decision. But I want everyone to think about who’s really winning the AI race: the people, or the AI companies that need us to keep their hype machine going?
Really, it’s one of the laziest takes you can make right now because it requires no critical thought aside from buying into the narrative the AI industry wants you to. There is no “AI race” because generative AI is a product with no use case, and it takes an enormous amount of energy (and stolen content) to run.
I have an iPhone 15 right now, so no Apple Intelligence. I don’t have ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI apps installed. For anyone with an Android phone right now, what generative AI features are you actually using and why? I’m not talking about asking Gemini something that Google Assistant could do just as easily; I don’t mean making AI “art”. What generative AI features does your phone have that actually make your life easier? I doubt there are any.
And I haven’t even talked about the impacts of people using all of these AI “features” because all of them require way more data centers than we have right now. Right now, cities like Memphis are being polluted by these data centers just so you can chat with Gemini or whatever AI app you’re using.
Normally I hate it when people say stuff like “old Apple would never do this”, but I think it’s true here. Really, I don’t even think 2015 Apple, or 2018 Apple, or even 2021 Apple would make anything like Apple Intelligence. Not out of the goodness of their hearts obviously (this is the same company that uses slave labor in the DRC to mine cobalt for their iPhone batteries), but because it’s just a stupid thing to do, both from a financial and a PR perspective.
And similarly, I don’t think Apple stopped focusing on AI as much and “losing the AI race” because they now care about the environment, or how new data centers are being disproportionately built in Black and low income communities, or even because they want to make sure new features aren’t half-baked before they roll them out in the future. I simply think it’s a business decision to focus on making better products that people actually want rather than buying into the AI hype.
I’m not asking anyone to applaud Apple for making a business decision. But I want everyone to think about who’s really winning the AI race: the people, or the AI companies that need us to keep their hype machine going?
Really, it’s one of the laziest takes you can make right now because it requires no critical thought aside from buying into the narrative the AI industry wants you to. There is no “AI race” because generative AI is a product with no use case, and it takes an enormous amount of energy (and stolen content) to run.
I have an iPhone 15 right now, so no Apple Intelligence. I don’t have ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI apps installed. For anyone with an Android phone right now, what generative AI features are you actually using and why? I’m not talking about asking Gemini something that Google Assistant could do just as easily; I don’t mean making AI “art”. What generative AI features does your phone have that actually make your life easier? I doubt there are any.
And I haven’t even talked about the impacts of people using all of these AI “features” because all of them require way more data centers than we have right now. Right now, cities like Memphis are being polluted by these data centers just so you can chat with Gemini or whatever AI app you’re using.
Normally I hate it when people say stuff like “old Apple would never do this”, but I think it’s true here. Really, I don’t even think 2015 Apple, or 2018 Apple, or even 2021 Apple would make anything like Apple Intelligence. Not out of the goodness of their hearts obviously (this is the same company that uses slave labor in the DRC to mine cobalt for their iPhone batteries), but because it’s just a stupid thing to do, both from a financial and a PR perspective.
And similarly, I don’t think Apple stopped focusing on AI as much and “losing the AI race” because they now care about the environment, or how new data centers are being disproportionately built in Black and low income communities, or even because they want to make sure new features aren’t half-baked before they roll them out in the future. I simply think it’s a business decision to focus on making better products that people actually want rather than buying into the AI hype.
I’m not asking anyone to applaud Apple for making a business decision. But I want everyone to think about who’s really winning the AI race: the people, or the AI companies that need us to keep their hype machine going?
When I first started reading your comment, I thought you were gonna reveal some niche, useful case for AI that I hadn't thought about, and not the same tired list of crap that every tech company has been talking about for the last 2 years. Let's go through these one by one:
"Churching [I'm assuming you meant churning] up the email to my supervisor"
Is it really that hard to write a simple, concise email? Like it's a pretty simple task that most people are capable of doing without the help of AI.
"Finding that old video or picture from months ago by using keywords to search my gallery"
Non-AI versions of this have existed for years on both iOS and Android. Google Photos did it in 2015, literally two years before "Attention is All you Need" was even published. And Google's new AI photo search is arguably worse than its non-AI counterpart.
"Quick summary of long email"
Just read the email, it's not that hard. And especially if it's for something important like work, you really don't want to miss any info from the email that the AI summary didn't catch or got wrong.
"Quick summary of those fifteen new messages"
Fifteen. Fifteen messages and you're too lazy to read them. Come on.
"Context sensitive quick text message responses"
Or you could just type a few words like a normal person. I feel like this is a laziness problem more than anything.
"Photos get auto sorted"
Again, this is not a new photos feature. Google has had this since 2015. Just because they made it worse with Gemini doesn't mean the concept of photo sorting is now a generative AI feature.
"Family photo where someone blinks"
This one is less objective and more personal preference than the others, but I feel like family photos are for memories, not making the most clean and "perfect" output. So I'd rather have a photo where someone blinks than a fake one where someone's face is AI-edited. Also, you can just take another photo if someone blinks the first time.
It's genuinely insane to me how people like you would rather outsource your critical thinking skills and destroy the environment rather than be inconvenienced by things like having to read one email or write a text.
Really, it’s one of the laziest takes you can make right now because it requires no critical thought aside from buying into the narrative the AI industry wants you to. There is no “AI race” because generative AI is a product with no use case, and it takes an enormous amount of energy (and stolen content) to run.
I have an iPhone 15 right now, so no Apple Intelligence. I don’t have ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI apps installed. For anyone with an Android phone right now, what generative AI features are you actually using and why? I’m not talking about asking Gemini something that Google Assistant could do just as easily; I don’t mean making AI “art”. What generative AI features does your phone have that actually make your life easier? I doubt there are any.
And I haven’t even talked about the impacts of people using all of these AI “features” because all of them require way more data centers than we have right now. Right now, cities like Memphis are being polluted by these data centers just so you can chat with Gemini or whatever AI app you’re using.
Normally I hate it when people say stuff like “old Apple would never do this”, but I think it’s true here. Really, I don’t even think 2015 Apple, or 2018 Apple, or even 2021 Apple would make anything like Apple Intelligence. Not out of the goodness of their hearts obviously (this is the same company that uses slave labor in the DRC to mine cobalt for their iPhone batteries), but because it’s just a stupid thing to do, both from a financial and a PR perspective.
And similarly, I don’t think Apple stopped focusing on AI as much and “losing the AI race” because they now care about the environment, or how new data centers are being disproportionately built in Black and low income communities, or even because they want to make sure new features aren’t half-baked before they roll them out in the future. I simply think it’s a business decision to focus on making better products that people actually want rather than buying into the AI hype.
I’m not asking anyone to applaud Apple for making a business decision. But I want everyone to think about who’s really winning the AI race: the people, or the AI companies that need us to keep their hype machine going?
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Really, it’s one of the laziest takes you can make right now because it requires no critical thought aside from buying into the narrative the AI industry wants you to. There is no “AI race” because generative AI is a product with no use case, and it takes an enormous amount of energy (and stolen content) to run.
I have an iPhone 15 right now, so no Apple Intelligence. I don’t have ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI apps installed. For anyone with an Android phone right now, what generative AI features are you actually using and why? I’m not talking about asking Gemini something that Google Assistant could do just as easily; I don’t mean making AI “art”. What generative AI features does your phone have that actually make your life easier? I doubt there are any.
And I haven’t even talked about the impacts of people using all of these AI “features” because all of them require way more data centers than we have right now. Right now, cities like Memphis are being polluted by these data centers just so you can chat with Gemini or whatever AI app you’re using.
Normally I hate it when people say stuff like “old Apple would never do this”, but I think it’s true here. Really, I don’t even think 2015 Apple, or 2018 Apple, or even 2021 Apple would make anything like Apple Intelligence. Not out of the goodness of their hearts obviously (this is the same company that uses slave labor in the DRC to mine cobalt for their iPhone batteries), but because it’s just a stupid thing to do, both from a financial and a PR perspective.
And similarly, I don’t think Apple stopped focusing on AI as much and “losing the AI race” because they now care about the environment, or how new data centers are being disproportionately built in Black and low income communities, or even because they want to make sure new features aren’t half-baked before they roll them out in the future. I simply think it’s a business decision to focus on making better products that people actually want rather than buying into the AI hype.
I’m not asking anyone to applaud Apple for making a business decision. But I want everyone to think about who’s really winning the AI race: the people, or the AI companies that need us to keep their hype machine going?
Really, it’s one of the laziest takes you can make right now because it requires no critical thought aside from buying into the narrative the AI industry wants you to. There is no “AI race” because generative AI is a product with no use case, and it takes an enormous amount of energy (and stolen content) to run.
I have an iPhone 15 right now, so no Apple Intelligence. I don’t have ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI apps installed. For anyone with an Android phone right now, what generative AI features are you actually using and why? I’m not talking about asking Gemini something that Google Assistant could do just as easily; I don’t mean making AI “art”. What generative AI features does your phone have that actually make your life easier? I doubt there are any.
And I haven’t even talked about the impacts of people using all of these AI “features” because all of them require way more data centers than we have right now. Right now, cities like Memphis are being polluted by these data centers just so you can chat with Gemini or whatever AI app you’re using.
Normally I hate it when people say stuff like “old Apple would never do this”, but I think it’s true here. Really, I don’t even think 2015 Apple, or 2018 Apple, or even 2021 Apple would make anything like Apple Intelligence. Not out of the goodness of their hearts obviously (this is the same company that uses slave labor in the DRC to mine cobalt for their iPhone batteries), but because it’s just a stupid thing to do, both from a financial and a PR perspective.
And similarly, I don’t think Apple stopped focusing on AI as much and “losing the AI race” because they now care about the environment, or how new data centers are being disproportionately built in Black and low income communities, or even because they want to make sure new features aren’t half-baked before they roll them out in the future. I simply think it’s a business decision to focus on making better products that people actually want rather than buying into the AI hype.
I’m not asking anyone to applaud Apple for making a business decision. But I want everyone to think about who’s really winning the AI race: the people, or the AI companies that need us to keep their hype machine going?
Really, it’s one of the laziest takes you can make right now because it requires no critical thought aside from buying into the narrative the AI industry wants you to. There is no “AI race” because generative AI is a product with no use case, and it takes an enormous amount of energy (and stolen content) to run.
I have an iPhone 15 right now, so no Apple Intelligence. I don’t have ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI apps installed. For anyone with an Android phone right now, what generative AI features are you actually using and why? I’m not talking about asking Gemini something that Google Assistant could do just as easily; I don’t mean making AI “art”. What generative AI features does your phone have that actually make your life easier? I doubt there are any.
And I haven’t even talked about the impacts of people using all of these AI “features” because all of them require way more data centers than we have right now. Right now, cities like Memphis are being polluted by these data centers just so you can chat with Gemini or whatever AI app you’re using.
Normally I hate it when people say stuff like “old Apple would never do this”, but I think it’s true here. Really, I don’t even think 2015 Apple, or 2018 Apple, or even 2021 Apple would make anything like Apple Intelligence. Not out of the goodness of their hearts obviously (this is the same company that uses slave labor in the DRC to mine cobalt for their iPhone batteries), but because it’s just a stupid thing to do, both from a financial and a PR perspective.
And similarly, I don’t think Apple stopped focusing on AI as much and “losing the AI race” because they now care about the environment, or how new data centers are being disproportionately built in Black and low income communities, or even because they want to make sure new features aren’t half-baked before they roll them out in the future. I simply think it’s a business decision to focus on making better products that people actually want rather than buying into the AI hype.
I’m not asking anyone to applaud Apple for making a business decision. But I want everyone to think about who’s really winning the AI race: the people, or the AI companies that need us to keep their hype machine going?
Wow, what a wall of Strawman.
So, things that I use AI for:
Churching up the email to my supervisor
Finding that old video or picture from months ago by using keywords to search my gallery, e.g. 'video with birds on the water'
Quick summary of long email (automatically at the top when I open an email)
Quick summary of those fifteen new messages in the group chat that popped off while I'm driving
Context sensitive quick text message responses
Photos get auto sorted into folders based on who is in them (all the pictures of my wife or each of my kids are all in one place)
Family photo where someone blinks but otherwise it's the perfect picture? AI fixes it using other photos of them as a reference.
When I first started reading your comment, I thought you were gonna reveal some niche, useful case for AI that I hadn't thought about, and not the same tired list of crap that every tech company has been talking about for the last 2 years. Let's go through these one by one:
"Churching [I'm assuming you meant churning] up the email to my supervisor"
Is it really that hard to write a simple, concise email? Like it's a pretty simple task that most people are capable of doing without the help of AI.
"Finding that old video or picture from months ago by using keywords to search my gallery"
Non-AI versions of this have existed for years on both iOS and Android. Google Photos did it in 2015, literally two years before "Attention is All you Need" was even published. And Google's new AI photo search is arguably worse than its non-AI counterpart.
"Quick summary of long email"
Just read the email, it's not that hard. And especially if it's for something important like work, you really don't want to miss any info from the email that the AI summary didn't catch or got wrong.
"Quick summary of those fifteen new messages"
Fifteen. Fifteen messages and you're too lazy to read them. Come on.
"Context sensitive quick text message responses"
Or you could just type a few words like a normal person. I feel like this is a laziness problem more than anything.
"Photos get auto sorted"
Again, this is not a new photos feature. Google has had this since 2015. Just because they made it worse with Gemini doesn't mean the concept of photo sorting is now a generative AI feature.
"Family photo where someone blinks"
This one is less objective and more personal preference than the others, but I feel like family photos are for memories, not making the most clean and "perfect" output. So I'd rather have a photo where someone blinks than a fake one where someone's face is AI-edited. Also, you can just take another photo if someone blinks the first time.
It's genuinely insane to me how people like you would rather outsource your critical thinking skills and destroy the environment rather than be inconvenienced by things like having to read one email or write a text.
Really, it’s one of the laziest takes you can make right now because it requires no critical thought aside from buying into the narrative the AI industry wants you to. There is no “AI race” because generative AI is a product with no use case, and it takes an enormous amount of energy (and stolen content) to run.
I have an iPhone 15 right now, so no Apple Intelligence. I don’t have ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI apps installed. For anyone with an Android phone right now, what generative AI features are you actually using and why? I’m not talking about asking Gemini something that Google Assistant could do just as easily; I don’t mean making AI “art”. What generative AI features does your phone have that actually make your life easier? I doubt there are any.
And I haven’t even talked about the impacts of people using all of these AI “features” because all of them require way more data centers than we have right now. Right now, cities like Memphis are being polluted by these data centers just so you can chat with Gemini or whatever AI app you’re using.
Normally I hate it when people say stuff like “old Apple would never do this”, but I think it’s true here. Really, I don’t even think 2015 Apple, or 2018 Apple, or even 2021 Apple would make anything like Apple Intelligence. Not out of the goodness of their hearts obviously (this is the same company that uses slave labor in the DRC to mine cobalt for their iPhone batteries), but because it’s just a stupid thing to do, both from a financial and a PR perspective.
And similarly, I don’t think Apple stopped focusing on AI as much and “losing the AI race” because they now care about the environment, or how new data centers are being disproportionately built in Black and low income communities, or even because they want to make sure new features aren’t half-baked before they roll them out in the future. I simply think it’s a business decision to focus on making better products that people actually want rather than buying into the AI hype.
I’m not asking anyone to applaud Apple for making a business decision. But I want everyone to think about who’s really winning the AI race: the people, or the AI companies that need us to keep their hype machine going?