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> it's because AI is still universally being strategized as a solution in search of a problem What Apple showed seems quite useful. It is a shame they failed s
by elAhmo 1y ago
> it's because AI is still universally being strategized as a solution in search of a problem
What Apple showed seems quite useful. It is a shame they failed spectacularly at execution. Even the simplest things that should be answerable by an LLM and their data, which is what a lot of people want, should be a very low hanging fruit - so much utility without building a complete experience from scratch.
Why cant I just say 'do I have any notifications from a bank?' or 'show me emails that require my attention'. Those things are simple if done with a combination of multiple tools (e.g. feeding email content somewhere, asking it to classify, show the results), yet a three trillion dollar company, with dedicated hardware release just for this purpose, failed to achieve it.
I might be over simplifying things, but with infinite resources, they should be able to do better.
- throwfaraway4 1y agoHow do you fail at something that was never released?
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI think it was rushed. Apple may though have lost "the vision thing" — but I'm willing to allow them another release cycle to mature their initial bandwagon-reaction.
- rubslopes 1y ago> I might be over simplifying things, but with infinite resources, they should be able to do better. I don't think you are. The problem really is execution. I don’t need anything beyond what AI can already do—I just need an assistant that understands what I want and uses the right tools. I’m baffled that we still can’t get a reliable summary of emails, notifications, or appointments. If you give me the data in text format, I can paste it into ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude and have a much better dialogue than with any current phone assistant. Somehow, trillion-dollar companies still haven’t solved that.
- elAhmo 1y agoExactly. Even the simplest models that could run on phone could have been used to improve Siri or give some better utility other than setting timers. Yet, it is slightly more advanced than a decade and a half ago.