On the first section, this is sort of funny. This guy is complaining about Android and Windows. Meanwhile, Mark Gurman is reporting every week how behind Apple is on their LLM integration. So here I am on iOS and macOS and I don't have any of these problems because Apple can't get their shit together to mess up my experience.
We use Siri extensively in our household (my kids use it with a HomePod a lot) and find that it works better than before (better able to understand them), and _much_ better at answering questions than it used to be (where it would often just say "I've sent some results to your phone"). I like how it provides the source of whatever answer it gives.
The whole point of Apple intelligence is that it shouldn’t feel like you’re talking with an LLM, it’s that it fades into the OS but delivers new features that make the OS more intelligent. I’m actually very bullish on it
My experience is similar, the new 26 os is great, and since I only use Apple and linux, I don’t really experience any of this. I do use LLM’s, but it is in its own app as it should be.
I think I can kinda see what they are tryingto do it with Apple Intelligence. It is pretty useless now, but given time maybe it could grow into actually having powerful features now when developers have an access to its API, as in incorporating applications into seamless workflows.
Shoving an AI chatbot into every nook and cranny of your application is just dumb. LLM’s should be unobtrusive, learning ways you want to interact with the larger ecosystem and only show up when called.
Reason why MS and G and shoving it everywhere is that they have no idea how to actually use this technology yet, but they already invested billions to it. I don’t see how that is going to end well.
Yeah I'm on ios/mac and was puzzled. I do find the AI slop on youtube a bit annoying - you don't know a link is AI stuff till it's played for a few seconds.
