First three top-of-mind thoughts about Apple Intelligence:
• I really wish they would have addressed the environmental story. That would help me personally accept these features more. But I know they can’t… because the story isn’t good.
• I actually think a lot of it looks quite nice, feels Apple-esque, and the UI they’re doing is really cool
• I remain viscerally repulsed by any AI generated art lol (In their Notes demo the sketch looked better!)
True absolute star of the keynote: MathNotes
* they are doing great work for the culture by situating AI imagery firmly in cringe memoji land
* on-device AI is the only good environmental angle. If people have to pay for AI energy themselves, the incentives are right for it to get more efficient.
* after 35 years they've finally sherlocked wolfram, who deserves it
@misuba @cabel I actually had the opposite thought re: environmental impact.
A billion iPhone/iPad/Mac users aren’t going to notice the minor increase in cost to charge their devices every day, and many will use unclean power to do so.
As opposed to a single organization that could pay more attention to that stuff and quite intentionally source solar/wind/hydro/etc. power for their data centers.
IMHO if there was a good environmental angle they’d have pointed it out.
@misuba @cabel Apple is a little different insofar as it’s unlikely that they’re doing the frantically-in-search-of-a-business-model thing the others are doing.
This is, as always, about selling little glass rectangles and services make little glass rectangles more appealing.
I actually see some meaningful benefits (mainly privacy-related) from doing most stuff on-device. I just don’t think environmental impact is one of them.
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