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  • mandatory AI

    Nothing is mandatory.

    GPT is Opt-in only. And it’s arguably somewhat buried in settings.

    That said, the local private Apple model that doesn’t train from you data is now turned on by default, but it can be disabled with a single toggle that’s right being the shiniest setting icon. You’re not missing much if you turn both of these things off. It’s basically just janky grammarly and budget dall-e.

  • At least one of those guys is able to ship a product that does what it was advertised to do.

    The problem with the Vision Pro is that no one wants to pay $4000 for what it does.

  • The Vision Pro is a cool solution in search of a user need.

    Voice control is a user need that Apple struggles to deliver solutions for.

  • Apple’s big problem is that Apple intelligence’s two most interesting features, contextual awareness + Siri finally having deep integration, never got reliable enough to get into public or developer beta this year.

    That was the thing everyone wanted, but they basically only got LLM summaries / drafting, and image generators. They got the stuff that is easy to make.

  • I think enterprise needs will ensure that people develops solutions to this.

    Companies can’t have their data creeping out into the public, or even creeping out into other parts of the org. If you’re customer, roadmap, or HR data got into the wrong hands, that could be a disaster.

    Apple, Google, and Microsoft will never get AI into the workplace is AI is sharing confidential enterprise data outside of an organization. And all of these tech companies desperately want their tools to be used in enterprises.

  • Yeah, it a lot of those studies are about stupid stuff like an LLM in-app to look at grammar, or a diffusion model to throw stupid clip art into things. No one gives a shit about that stuff. You can easily just cut and paste from OpenAI’s experience, and get access to more tools there.

    That said, being able to ask an OS to look at one local vectorized DB of texts, images, documents, recognize context, then compose and complete tasks based upon that context. That shit is fucking cool.

    That said, a lot of people haven’t experienced that yet, so when they get asked about “AI,” their responses are framed with what they’ve experienced.

    It’s the “faster horse” analogy. People that don’t know about cars, busses, and trains will ask for a faster horse when you ask them to envision a faster mode of transport.

  • If you’re dumb, and you can get $15-17k from selling an existing vehicle, you can get a 3 year lease down to delta of $500-$600.

    Telsa was pushing leases pretty hard because a lot of EV incentives are lease-only. I’ll bet they duped a lot of people into putting a shitload down for a lease.

  • To be fair, Rivian is selling as many trucks as they can produce. Rivian could sell more vehicles if they had the line capacity.

    Tesla is an older company with more mature manufacturing lines, and they can make more Trucks, but no one wants them.

  • Why can’t it work?

    I work on AI systems that integrate into other apps and make contextual requests. That’s the big feature that Apple hasn’t launched, and it’s very much a problem that others have solved before.

  • The new models are being fixed by “nut clamping”

  • large flaps of skin

  • Seems like most of the downvotes are in the Telsa communities. The other communities upvoted it heavily.

  • Having clocked in a lot of hours in San Francisco cabs, Ubers, Lyfts, and Waymos, IMHO, the Waymos are the least terrifying - by far.

    My opinion might change if they’re ever allowed to travel at high speeds on a highway, but in a congested city where you can rarely get above 35mph, they feel really good.

    No aggressive or distracted driving, no tipping, no stinky ass air freshers, and generally no double parking to pick people up.

    I’m a convert.

  • Yeah, in english the nut is the threaded fastener.

  • *socket

  • Conservatives are going to eat this story up so hard.

  • Nah. Authoritarians love gaudy, showy, shit. They hate minimal modernist design. Hitler famously shut down the Bauhaus movement, and Trump is doing similar shit and pushing Classicism.

    Look at the residences of Kim, Saddam, Assad, Chávez, etc. Columns, ornate gold shit, etc.

  • Out here in Silicon Valley, the big driver is a) you need MacOS to develop for iOS, and b) people prefer the UX over Windows / Linux.

    Also, the hardware tends be well supported and performant for many years…. As long as you’re not gaming.

  • Looks like OP never bought a bidet during the great pandemic TP shortage.