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I keep asking myself the same questions every time i read about modern (apple) hardware specs: what are they going to do with all this ML-dedicated hardware ??

by bsaul 6y ago

I keep asking myself the same questions every time i read about modern (apple) hardware specs: what are they going to do with all this ML-dedicated hardware ?? I don't see anything smart with my iphone, nothing has changed since the introduction of Siri. I still can't use it seriously for anything else other than to set the alarm clock, and not a single app i download or use seem to do anything special needing ML running on the client side.

sixstringtheory 6y ago
For folks heavily using their iPhone as a camera and photo album, there are lots of ML-aided things going on. You can search through photos by text without having to have previously annotated your photos, it automatically builds albums that contain people it's decided are important to you, it automatically pulls out the "best" photos for you which really helps if you like to take tons of photos, it can automatically create entire slideshows for you. This is probably just a subset of the things to which ML is applied in one app on the device. Fully agreed on the Siri shortcomings, though! But, I'm not sure how much of that work is done on device with the neural engine vs in the cloud. Not like that matters when the end result is so bad.