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I suspect disabling this is absolutely the right thing to do. But I'm curious, has anyone really made any effort to test this so-called AI first to see if it's
by Over2Chars 2y ago
I suspect disabling this is absolutely the right thing to do.
But I'm curious, has anyone really made any effort to test this so-called AI first to see if it's at all useful, or lives up to any level of expectation?
Or is there some a priori evil element to justify this (Tim Cook slurping up all your data and using it for training and advertising without consent or opt out) that I don't know about?
- dharma1 2y agoIt’s mostly useful as a hands free shortcut to get replies from chatgpt. Beyond that it’s useless All the promises of integrating deeply into the OS and have APIs directly into apps so you can use natural language to get any app to do stuff for you is vaporware So much potential but none of it delivered yet, I hope it will change soon
- Over2Chars 2y agoInteresting. Thanks for the information.
- ajdude 2y agoUnfortunately it seems pretty half-baked and rushed out just so they can check the box without being as useful as it could be. Here is the best commentary that I've read on the subject from someone who works regularly in generative AI: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/squandered-holy-grail/ https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/squandered-holy-grail/
- snapetom 2y agoThis is such an infuriating problem with these companies. Generative AIs hold promise, but they all rushed to inject these features, which are in its infancy, directly interfering with the user experience. In iOS, if you search in settings for something in the realm of Apple Intelligence. The results will be dominated by Apple Intelligence results, which is a good chance that that's not what you want. On Amazon.com, they threw their entire review history into Rufus, and the results are often are just plain outdated and wrong. It's still garbage in, garbage out with generative AI, and these companies have completely ignored that.
- Over2Chars 2y agoWell, you're used to a mature stable UI, but this is a fairly new feature. It might be the next big thing, or it might be the next Clippy/Bob. Hold on, because there's a ton of money riding on massive adoption, whether you want to adopt it or not.
- xattt 2y agoYou forget that Apple Maps was crap when it first came out, up to the point where people were questioning why Apple was bothering in the first place. Early adopters should recognize first versions of forward-looking tech are going to be less-than-optimal, and that the warts will eventually fall off. Y’all around here advocate for shipping whatever you have, but when a larger org applies your principles, everyone is in a tizzy.
- acer4666 2y agoI don't think anyone here advocates for "just ship it" when you're talking about breaking updates to a system used by a significant chunk of the world's population.
- zuhsetaqi 2y agoWhat is a breaking change with the update that introduced Apple Intelligence?
- acer4666 2y agoHow iPhone notifications work. These are relied upon by humans and they started displaying incorrect facts for news apps
- Over2Chars 2y agoIncorrect facts in the news? Hasn't this been happening for years?
- lxgr 2y agoIt’s currently not all that useful, but also never gets in my way when I don’t need it, so I don’t really see the point in disabling it.
- bryancoxwell 2y agoYou also don’t need to entirely disable it. For example you can just turn off notification summaries, the only benefit of which (it seems) is that sometimes they’re so wrong that it’s a little bit funny.