Apple always underperforms on new tech, and sometimes they never get it right. Siri and HomeKit are a classic example. Amazon opened up Alexa to third party devs and have an AWESOME ecosystem for home automation. I still can’t get Siri to set the f-ing thermostat 10 years after HomeKit was released.

@manton No, they're just a con. A grift. A brief, unjustifiable production of tens of millions of tons of CO2.

I just hope I can turn it off.

I agree. I think Apple felt pressured to put it in. Hence the “built from the ground up for AI” being a bit more ram.

I guess the pressures of shareholders and Wall St is pretty much the only pressure they feel.

interesting point. Do you know the SAMR framework? I see a lot of AI that’s the first stages and sometimes makes products worse (or more resource intensive for minimal gains). Apple’s approach seems to be augmentations mostly, achieving the same ends but in a faster or whatever way. That said, some of the attempts at redefinition I’ve seen (friend) looks like “solutions” that will actually exacerbate the problem.

I’d say that MBs use looks to be mostly augmentations (like alt text for image and podcast transcripts).

@ChrisJWilson I hadn’t heard of SAMR. Skimming through it. To be clear, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with augmentation. You’re right, that’s Micro.blog’s approach. But I also think there’s a place for people trying to rethink the way things used to be.

yeah absolutely. I think that’s a point of SAMR, not everything has to be redefined. Augmention and modification are good too (and even just a substitution). To me it’s descriptive and poses the question “could we go further along this spectrum”.