hadn’t even heard of it until now.

the AARP crowd needs romance too George.

off topic but seeing him mentioned in an Amazon MGM headline made me think he’d be a good Bond.

why do they need DNA for that?

Companies that sell safety razors (or whatever buy-once product) probably also do lots of other stuff to diversify.

everyone is guaranteed to buy death/funeral related stuff, not everyone wants a DNA test. Also all of that crap (headstone, funeral service, coffin etc) is bundeled together in a massive payday, not to mention funeral places tend to price gouge the bereaved. So a single death is a much bigger payday than a single DNA test.

As for the other products you mentioned, i doubt any of those companies literally only sell those individual products. They probably diversify to other products and services too.

true but after the enormous initial boom they would have reached an equilibrium of a small trickle. the question is if that small trickle is enough to sustain a company on its own, so apparently not.

one of the cofounders is trying to buyout the company but I have to imagine they’ll get outbid in the bakruptcy process.

There is code in Siri that understands calendars, but the LLM part ain’t it.

yes i know, you are getting hung up on my colloquial use of “understand”. the LLM doesn’t need to “understand” it on that level because siri does. the LLM is there to parse the language and hand off to Siri. that’s all i’m saying.

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i suspect we are going to have a semantic disagreement on what “understanding” means here.

ChatGPT is absolutely trained on the concept of calendars, that iPhones indeed have calendars, and how they work. It doesn’t need to “understand” what a calendar is on a deep epistemological level to process requests about them. If you ask chatGPT a question about calendars, it’ll answer you. So in that shallower sense LLMs absolutely “understand” what you mean, and that’s enough for chatGPT to help siri.

mullvad’s browser is based on firefox.

cool work i guess but the design of this thing makes no sense to me. i thought they were at least going to make a full epoxy circle around the live edge.

relatively speaking

the vast majority of them i see around my area have branding decals plastered all over them. no doubt they are being used as a business expense or some other dumb shit.

The problem is that Apple’s extensive marketing of Apple Intelligence has led to expectations that far surpass what the final product is likely to be.

like what specifically? I think most people will be very happy if the only practical improvement is Siri working a lot better, which should be achievable.

“it” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I agree a lot of the “AI” features being pushed are junk that I don’t want (e.g. image playground), but there are some that i do think that will help a lot as we have discussed in the other chain.

with chatgpt siri will just be way better at understanding everyday language. For example, if i am listening to an Apple Music playlist with a bunch of different artists and i say “hey siri play this album” it has no idea what I mean. ChatGPT easily handles context dependent language like that.

If you haven’t used chatGPT you should try it and compare the results with siri. It’s not perfect but it is way easier to get what you want.

AI has no idea what a calendar is or what the word calendar means.

Of course it does, where are you getting this from? This is what LLMs do, understand language. If you ask chaptGPT to add an event to your apple calendar it will say it doesn’t have access and give you instructions to do so. Apple is basically working on converting those instructions to interface with siri.

And even if they do limit it to basic functionality like speech to text or scheduling, it already does most of that amd they’d be plowing millions into the slightest improvements.

that’s not what the ChatGPT part will be doing. As you say, siri already handles that. ChatGPT is there to understand the language and context of the request, something LLMs do much much better than Siri now.

the execution and delivery of Vision Pro was not the problem, that’s where Siri is struggling now.