4 ms·

Unfortunately, they have also succumbed to the AI hype machine. Apple, calling it by its actual name "machine learning" was about the only thing I still liked a

Unfortunately, they have also succumbed to the AI hype machine. Apple, calling it by its actual name "machine learning" was about the only thing I still liked about Apple.

rpdillon 1y ago
Wait, didn't they try to backronym their way into "Apple Intelligence" last cycle? https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/ https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/
- kryllic 1y ago
  Probably don't want to draw more attention to their ongoing lawsuits [1]. Apple, for all its faults, does enjoy consistency and the unruly nature of LLM's is something I'm shocked they thought they could tame in a short amount of time. The fallout of the hilariously bad news/message "summaries" were more than enough to spook Apple from allowing that to go much further. >Built into your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro* to help you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly.** Designed with groundbreaking privacy at every step. The asterisks are really icing on the cake here. --- [1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple-accused-of-ai-copyright-infringement-by-suny-professors https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple-accused-of-ai-cop...
kgwgk 1y ago
> actual name "machine learning" Yesterday’s hype is today’s humility.
adastra22 1y ago
Machine learning is a bit more specific than what we now call AI, no?
- asadotzler 1y ago
  the other way around.
  - adastra22 1y ago
    I don’t follow. Machine learning was coined to specifically describe the application of neural networks to unsupervised classification systems. Its meaning has grown beyond that, but at the outset, it was a niche part of artificial intelligence. Now you’re saying that AI is a subset of machine learning?
    - I_AM_A_SMURF 1y ago
      Lately AI = LLM (at least in popular culture).
    - zargon 1y ago
      > what we now call AI (Emphasis added) When a company (or most people) today (now) says “AI”, they are not referring to the area of study traditionally called artificial intelligence. They are talking exclusively about transformers or diffusion.
      - adastra22 1y ago
        Which is a subset of what has always been called AI, and different enough from what “machine learning” was when the phrase became commonplace that it might actually be confusing to use that term. The multi-layer perceptron is a machine learning system, but attention networks are kind of their own thing even if they originally came out of machine learning research. So the transformer architecture isn’t exactly cut and dry machine learning.
tim333 1y ago
They are marketing to the public who mostly call this stuff AI and not machine learning.

Unfortunately, they have also succumbed to the AI hype machine. Apple, calling it by its actual name "machine learning" was about the only thing I still liked about Apple.

rpdillon 1y ago

Wait, didn't they try to backronym their way into "Apple Intelligence" last cycle? https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/ https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

kryllic 1y ago
Probably don't want to draw more attention to their ongoing lawsuits [1]. Apple, for all its faults, does enjoy consistency and the unruly nature of LLM's is something I'm shocked they thought they could tame in a short amount of time. The fallout of the hilariously bad news/message "summaries" were more than enough to spook Apple from allowing that to go much further. >Built into your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro* to help you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly.** Designed with groundbreaking privacy at every step. The asterisks are really icing on the cake here. --- [1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple-accused-of-ai-copyright-infringement-by-suny-professors https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple-accused-of-ai-cop...

kgwgk 1y ago

> actual name "machine learning" Yesterday’s hype is today’s humility.

adastra22 1y ago

Machine learning is a bit more specific than what we now call AI, no?

asadotzler 1y ago
the other way around.
- adastra22 1y ago
  I don’t follow. Machine learning was coined to specifically describe the application of neural networks to unsupervised classification systems. Its meaning has grown beyond that, but at the outset, it was a niche part of artificial intelligence. Now you’re saying that AI is a subset of machine learning?
  - I_AM_A_SMURF 1y ago
    Lately AI = LLM (at least in popular culture).
  - zargon 1y ago
    > what we now call AI (Emphasis added) When a company (or most people) today (now) says “AI”, they are not referring to the area of study traditionally called artificial intelligence. They are talking exclusively about transformers or diffusion.
    - adastra22 1y ago
      Which is a subset of what has always been called AI, and different enough from what “machine learning” was when the phrase became commonplace that it might actually be confusing to use that term. The multi-layer perceptron is a machine learning system, but attention networks are kind of their own thing even if they originally came out of machine learning research. So the transformer architecture isn’t exactly cut and dry machine learning.

tim333 1y ago

They are marketing to the public who mostly call this stuff AI and not machine learning.