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> minor tools for making emojis, summarizing notifications, and proof reading. The notification / email summaries are so unbelievably useless too: it’s hardly
by teeray 1y ago
> minor tools for making emojis, summarizing notifications, and proof reading.
The notification / email summaries are so unbelievably useless too: it’s hardly more work to skim the notification / email that I do anyway.
- SchemaLoad 1y agoLike most AI products it feels like they started with a solution first and went searching for the problems. Text messages being too long wasn't a real problem to begin with. There are some good parts to Apple Intelligence though. I find the priority notifications feature works pretty well, and the photo cleanup tool works pretty well for small things like removing your finger from the corner of a photo, though it's not going to work on huge tasks like removing a whole person from a photo.
- CjHuber 1y agoI mean it happened quite a few times that phishing emails became the priority notification on my phone
- harvey9 1y agoDo you know if apple is using their new tools to do mail filtering? It's an interesting choice if they are since it's a genuine problem with a mature (but always evolving) solution.
- SchemaLoad 1y agoReally those should have been filtered out by the spam filter. If it's made it all the way to your inbox it's not surprising it got marked as a priority since phishing emails are written to look urgent, something which if real would be a priority notification.
- mikodin 1y agoHonestly I love the priority notifications and the notification summaries. The thing that drives me absolutely insane, is that the fact that when I view the notification through clicking on it from another space other than the "While in the reduce interruptions focus" it doesn't clear. Because of this, I always have infinite notifications. I want to open WhatsApp and open the message and have it clear the notif. Or atleast click the notif from the normal notif center and have it clear there. It kills me
- beyarkay 1y agoWhat do you love about the notification summaries? I'm hearing a lot of hate for them
- mr_toad 1y ago> it's not going to work on huge tasks like removing a whole person from a photo. I use it for removing people who wander into the frame quite often. It probably wont work for someone close up, but its great for removing a tourist who spends ten minutes taking selfies in front of a monument.
- beyarkay 1y agoI didn't realise this was a feature, very cool!
- polynomial 1y ago> Text messages being too long wasn't a real problem to begin with. Except for that one friend. You know the one I mean.
- remexre 1y agoIt does feel like somebody forgot that "from the first sentence or two of the email, you can tell what it's about" was already a rule of good writing...
- eru 1y agoYou sometimes need to want to quickly learn what's in an email that was written by someone less helpful. Eg sometimes the writer is outright antagonistic, because they have some obligation to tell you something, but don't actually want you to know.
- smogcutter 1y agoEven bending over that far backwards to find a useful example comes up empty. Those kinds of emails are so uncommon they’re absolutely not worth wasting this level of effort on. And if you’re in a sorry enough situation where that’s not the case, what you really need is the outside context the model doesn’t know. The model doesn’t know your office politics.
- huhkerrf 1y agoThis is a pretty damning example of backwards product thinking. How often, truly, does this happen?
- immibis 1y agoNever heard of terms of service?
- tsimionescu 1y agoNo one cares about the terms of service. And if they actually do, they will need to read every word very carefully to know if they are in legal trouble. A possibly wrong summary of a terms of service document is entirely and completely useless.
- huhkerrf 1y ago
- harrisonjackson 1y agoThe Ring app notification summaries still scare me. > "A bunch of people right outside your house!!!" because it aggregates multiple single person walking by notifications that way...
- disqard 1y agoThat is a fantastic example of blind application of AI making things worse.
- beyarkay 1y agoHopefully we'll get examples of smart applications of AI making things better
- Terr_ 1y agoThat makes... That makes just enough sense to become nonsense, rather than mere noise. I mean, I could imagine a person with no common sense almost making the same mistake: "I have a list of 5 notifications of a person standing on the porch, and no notifications about leaving, so there must be a 5 person group still standing outside right now. Whadya mean, 'look at the times'?"
- cjs_ac 1y ago> A biologist, a physicist and a mathematician were sitting in a street cafe watching the crowd. Across the street they saw a man and a woman entering a building. Ten minutes they reappeared together with a third person. > - They have multiplied, said the biologist. > - Oh no, an error in measurement, the physicist sighed. > - If exactly one person enters the building now, it will be empty again, the mathematician concluded. https://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/mathjokes.html https://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/mathjokes.html
- cwillu 1y agoUnrelated, but am I the only person who finds the concept of “getting notifications for somebody walking by a house” to be really creepy?
- gambiting 1y agoIt's not even that they are useless, they are actively wrong. I could post pages upon pages of screenshots of the summaries being literally wrong about the content of the messages it summarised.
- kelnos 1y agoI find it weird that we even think we need notification summaries. If the notification body text is long or complex enough to benefit from summarizing, then the person who wrote that text has failed at the job. Notifications are summaries.
- beyarkay 1y agoSoon they'll release a "notifications summary digest" that summarises the summaries