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"Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown"

Even CNN is slowly starting to get it.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence

Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown

Apple has been getting hammered in tech and financial media for its uncharacteristically messy foray into artificial intelligence. After a June event heralding a new AI-powered Siri, the company has delayed its release indefinitely. The AI features Apple has rolled out, including text message summaries, are comically unhelpful.

CNN

glipari Mar 29, 2025

Even in the most favorable case that the AI is 100% correct with the arrival time and the airport of mom's flight: do we really want to burn the planet so that I can save a couple of clicks between my email and my browser ? How many seconds I will be gaining by using an AI ? Even if time is money (it isn't) how many dollars are we saving with this "innovation" ?

Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦Mar 29, 2025

@tante @Lazarou

"Even CNN" 🤣🤣🤣

At this rate Kevin Roose and Casey Newton will be the last two fools standing

ShiroBloo Mar 29, 2025

@tante I rarely google (with Ecosia tho) anymore, I just use Le Chat. It has saved me a lot of time with some questions and it gives a lot of sources usually.

Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦Mar 29, 2025

@tante @Lazarou

"Large language models are fascinating science. They are an academic wonder with huge potential and some early commercial successes, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude"

How are companies that only lose money a "commercial success"??

https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

OpenAI Is A Bad Business

OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Mar 29, 2025

People should stop being "disappointed by AI", and wait until it exists.

This current Grand Theft Autocorrect is not even remotely related to any form of intelligence.

RejZoR Mar 30, 2025

@Walrus @tante They now started adding "reasoning" to the descriptions of their Ai models. Motherfuckers, telling Ai to do something for me is like persuading a 4 year old to do something way beyond his knowledge.

Neur0mancer Mar 29, 2025

@tante The problems for the companies that try to push AI in their product is that they are at risk to make the same mistake with all the web3/metaverse fiasco: if they can't explain what are they pushing to the market, users don't want use a tech that even the companies can't understand what it is. C-suite are brainwashed with the hype of a new tech and they want to launch all of these new tech to see what it stick on wall hope to make huge profits and dominate market share against competitors

Neur0mancer Mar 29, 2025

@tante AI could be the next big thing for humanity and we could have great benefit with it, but companies need to decide WHAT they want, regardless of the profit they can make. Have a model to generate ghibli-styles picture is a wast of time, resource and energy of everyone. Plus, we need a strong regulamentation at global level to limit use and development (and the EU Ai act is a great start).

Neur0mancer Mar 29, 2025

@tante We cannot leave companies to develop AI and his implementation freely without control of governement and peoples, and we are witness the dirsuption of the everyday aspects of our lives (fakes, manipulation of informations, scams, etc.) leaving the develpment to private companies/oligarchs

herbert Mar 29, 2025

@tante I so fundamentally agree with this. I was really upset when the NYT Hard Fork podcast, which I truly enjoy, criticized Apple for postponing its agentic AI tools for iOS for more than a year. I interpreted that decision as a reality check, as Apple maybe still caring about the wellbeing of its dedicated customers instead of running along with the AI craze. Hard Fork made them out to be pussies. Again, I love the show, but thought that was really tone deaf.

Jan Johannesson Mar 29, 2025

@tante Finally someone who is starting to get it.

Jeramee Mar 29, 2025

@tante
"The real reason companies are doing this is because Wall Street wants them to."

Yeah, because when hasn't listening to the most addicted gamblers in capitalism's largest casino gone wrong?

Arthur van der Harg Mar 29, 2025

@tante That’s the thing about Apple: they do things right and if it can’t be done right, they don’t do it. (Remember the Apple Maps debacle? That was 13 years ago. That is how far back one needs to go to get a major Apple fail.) They apparently don’t feel like they can introduce AI in a useful and responsible way into their products. Given the resources that Apple has available, that should tell you something.

Greg Kaplan Mar 30, 2025

@ArtHarg @tante Apple had been doing AI correctly for many years. There’s tons of features in iPhones powered by AI. And doing it the right way is the fact most people don’t even know they’ve been using “ai features”.

They would market the thing you could do and not how that thing is done.

The failure of Apple now is not that it doesn’t know how to do AI. It’s that they were pressured to become shareholder shills. I feel so bad for the smart people who were forced into marketing bullshit.

Daniel Hakimi Mar 30, 2025

@tante AI sucks, but AMP also sucks.

Daniel Hakimi Mar 30, 2025

@tante https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html

Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown

Apple has been getting hammered in tech and financial media for its uncharacteristically messy foray into artificial intelligence. After a June event heralding a new AI-powered Siri, the company has delayed its release indefinitely. The AI features Apple has rolled out, including text message summaries, are comically unhelpful.

CNN

hex Mar 30, 2025

@tante I was chatting with someone who summed up LLMs perfect saying, basically, "LLMs took NLP from like 40% accurate to 80% accurate, which is amazing if you've been doing NLP for a long time and know what to expect." Meanwhile, people are trying to use a pretty good NLP tool to write code, drive cars, and make legal arguments, and that's not what it's for or what it's good at.

It's not actually *good* at anything, it's just better than the really bad stuff that existed before for a completely different purpose than it's being used for now. Unfortunately, the reverse ouroboros that is walla street and everyone above middle management doesn't have the technical depth to distinguish between useful things and garbage shaped like useful things.

hex Mar 30, 2025

@tante one problem with the article is that they still claim there are financial success stories in AI. There are not. It's 100% hype with no actual money. It's a money furnace. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/generative-ai-is-not-a-real-269171286/

Generative AI Is Not A Real Industry - Better Offline | iHeart

<p>In the second of this week's two-part episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the dark truth of the generative AI industry - that consumer adoption of Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity is incredibly small, and it’s time to accept that there is nothing coming to justify the ruinous costs of Large Language Models. </p> <p>---</p> <p>LINKS: <a href='https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks'>https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks</a></p> <p>Newsletter: <a href='https://www.wheresyoured.at/'>https://www.wheresyoured.at/</a></p> <p>Reddit: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/'>https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/</a> </p> <p>Discord: <a href='https://discord.com/invite/QUUQUP9szv'>chat.wheresyoured.at</a></p> <p>Ed's Socials:</p> <p><a href='https://twitter.com/edzitron'>https://twitter.com/edzitron</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.instagram.com/edzitron'>https://www.instagram.com/edzitron</a></p> <p><a href='https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com'>https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.threads.net/@edzitron'>https://www.threads.net/@edzitron</a></p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

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mosttoast Mar 30, 2025

@tante I've been thinking this for a while, and I'm glad to hear someone in a newspaper's position say it.

tante Mar 30, 2025

@mosttoast Yes, it is good to see at least _something_

Morten Juhl-Johansen Mar 31, 2025

@tante It is my sincere brief that Apple and AI can both be a disappointment - separately as well as bundled