As someone who primarily uses Unix-like systems and develops cross platform software, having windows as a weird outlier is probably best for the long term. Windows is weird and dumb but it forces us to consider platform differences more explicitly. In the future if a new operating system becomes popular, all the checks that were implemented for windows will make it a bit easier to port to newer systems.
Is the distrust in the quality of the output? If so, I think the main thing Apple has going for it is that they use many fine tuned models for context constrained tasks. ChatGPT can be arbitrarily prompted and is expected to give good output for everything, sometimes long output. Being able to do that is… hard. However, most of apple’s applications are much, much narrower. Like, the writing assistant which will rephrase at most a few paragraphs: the output is relatively short, and the model has to do exactly one task. Or in Siri: the model has to take a command, and then select one or more intents to call. It’s likely that choosing which intents to call, and what kinds of arguments to provide are handled by separate models optimized for each case. Despite all that, it is very possible that errors can still occur, but there are fewer chances for them to occur. I think part of Apple’s motivation for partnering with OpenAI specifically for certain complex Siri questions, is that this is an area they aren’t comfortable putting Apple branding on due to output quality concerns, and by providing it with a partner, they can pass blame onto the partner. Someday if LLMs are better understood and their output can be better controlled and verified for open ended questions, that’s when Apple might dump OpenAI and advertise their in house replacement as being accurate and reliable in a way ChatGPT isn’t.
The privacy and security issues with LLMs are mitigated by the majority of it being on-device. Anything on device, in my opinion, has zero privacy or security issues. Anything taking place on a server has a potential to be a privacy issue, but Apple seems to be taking extraordinary measures to ensure privacy with their own systems, and ChatGPT, which doesn’t have the same protections, will be strictly opt in separately from Apple’s service. I see this as basically the best of all options, maximizing privacy while retaining more complex functionality.
It’s Apple so security mechanisms are probably implemented at the hardware level. Microsoft’s thing was dumb because it was just an unencrypted SQLite database that any program could just read.
I’m excited for this. Siri seems like it might actually be useful, finally, and the various ways they are integrating LLMs will make the stuff I already do with ChatGPT much more straightforward.
I’m not the kind of person that wants a new car always. I’d rather have a car that will last me 20 years. With that in mind, leasing is almost always much more expensive.
Hamas isn’t using civilians as human shields. At least, not at scale. Israel and its western co-conspirators manufacture evidence to use to justify the genocide, but none of that evidence is concrete. It’s just intelligence people making baseless claims.
Could you be more specific? I couldn’t find a single EV under $30k the cheapest one I could find on their website was $37.5k on their website. That’s not affordable, and 10k above where the bolt starts.
The MachE is nearly a third larger than the bolt by weight, an already large car, as well as being larger than the bolt in every physical dimension, even if not by much (except for length, where there’s a nearly 2 foot difference). I just want a small compact car with enough range to get me to work and back and run a few errands. In 2000 most cars were reasonable sizes even in the US, but today you can find anything reasonably sized new. I don’t want an SUV or a “crossover”. In other coutures like China these vehicles are being built, but US politicians would rather protect the profits of car companies producing these massive, inefficient, unsustainable monster trucks for people to take to the office and back.
War crimes, like other crimes, must be considered in context. It’s ok to shoot someone in self defense charging you with a knife. It’s not ok to blow up an entire apartment building because you want the people living there dead so you can steal their land.
The only EV I can find from an American brand that is in any way appealing is the Bolt. Everything else is a giant truck or SUV, and to be honest I don’t feel safe driving such a huge piece of metal, and I don’t have the money to justify buying one. No American options are affordable or reasonably sized. The US is doing EVs in possibly the most unsustainable way possible.
Seems like Apple is really hitching themselves to this with a name like that. If it’s a flop, it’ll be like Apple Maps jokes all over again but 10x worse.
Supposedly they want us all in EVs, but American manufacturers aren’t producing shit except for Tesla which are safety hazards, and they effectively banned Chinese competition that could have actually accomplished it. US car manufacturers will likely ignore these new standards by pushing more “light trucks” that are exempt.
While I’d admit throughout this thread you’ve been fairly constructive for someone sympathetic to Israel, this post is particularly dense with propaganda talking points. There’s not strong evidence for Hamas using civilians as physical shields, Israel just calls civilians living in the same area as Hamas is operating (with neither party having any option to leave) human shields to justify their slaughter of those civilians.
If we want to work on the house analogy earlier, you took one of the invaders and their friend that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time into the bedroom with you as prisoners. Your wife is hiding in the corner as best out of the way as you can, but the invaders keep shooting towards her anyways, she has a bullet lodged into her arm by the invaders even though she isn’t even involved, and they’re still shooting towards her. They’re also saying they are trying to get the prisoners but are shooting towards them, too. You’re pleading for them to stop shooting at you and your wife in exchange for releasing the prisoners, you aren’t even demanding your house back, but they keep firing because they actually just want all of you dead, don’t care about the prisoners in the slightest, and really just want you gone so they can have the last bit of your house.
The URL to the ipsw can be found in this commit to virtualbuddy, likely useable with UTM today, and virtualbuddy whenever it gets its next release.
https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy/commit/120cff9f99aab4fdbb78f7071ce771d26feb2c23