Chris Silverman 🌻
@hellojohnbuck
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Honoured to be in IEEE Spectrum via @chrischinchilla
Jean-Charles Mourey recalls:
"Walking around ATG was like walking around James Bond's gadget lab. So many smart, innovative people with grand ideas. I remember Wil Oxford, Ph.D who was working on artificially altering the phase differential in sound coming out of two stereo speakers to make it seem as though the sound was coming from much further left or right than either speaker. It was mind-blowing."
Apple engineer John Worthington: There were people inside the company who said, “No one’s ever going to listen to music or watch videos on a computer. Ever.”
A dozen people at Apple changed that. This is their story. #Apple50
Proud to have an extract from my book in @theverge as part of the Apple@50 annniversary.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/902721/quicktime-history-apple
In today's dollars, the 'first' Macintosh Portable weighed 15 lbs (6.8kg), 40mb HDD and in today's dollars cost $16,500. You could buy 27 Macbook Neos for that 😊
In 1989 NYT journalist John Markoff quoted analyst Charles Wolf on Apple's future - "Moses went to the mountain for the Ten Commandments, Steve Jobs went to the mountain and came back with the Macintosh. But can John Sculley go to the mountain and come back with something unique?"
Did Tim Cook come back with Neo?
“I just read, start to finish. Could not stop once I started. Many of the stories I was familiar with from my day to day workings at Apple, but did not know how and why they ended up at Apple. All in all a very interesting read. Well done”. Don North ex-Advanced Technology Group -> https://books.by/john-buck
Hey Canada. It’s but one game. As you know, we’re with you for the long haul. Always got your back. Regards, all Australians.
I still don't understand why the stock markets are so bullish on Anthropic (or any AI product) when a request to check the facts on a story that I know, got me the storyline of a made up person. When confronted, Claude and all bots use the phrase 'hallucinate'.
How would that excuse go at your work review? with your boss?
At what point do we trust LLMs with medical decisions, health records, legal decisions, self-driving, high-school papers?
"You know what Apple doesn’t have? A podcast creation app in its brand new creative suite. Hmmm." @dmoren But we have KeyNote and Numbers FFS
