6d ago

Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown

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Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown | CNN Business

There’s a popular adage in policy circles: “The party can never fail, it can only be failed.” It is meant as a critique of the ideological gatekeepers who may, for example, blame voters for their party’s failings rather than the party itself.

That same fallacy is taking root among AI’s biggest backers. AI can never fail, it can only be failed. Failed by you and me, the smooth-brained Luddites who just don’t get it. (To be sure, even AI proponents will acknowledge available models’ shortcomings — no one would argue that the AI slop clogging Facebook is anything but, well, slop — but there is a dominant narrative within tech that AI is both inevitable and revolutionary.)

Tech columnists such as the New York Times’ Kevin Roose have suggested recently that Apple has failed AI, rather than the other way around.

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7d ago

Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown

www.cnn.com /2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html

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No one forced apple to announce AI. They could have just waited until they had something ready.
- This is the clearest sign to me that Apple has jumped the shark.
  Apple has a long history of waiting until they could do something right rather than rushing to market with some fad. And here they are tripping over themselves to ship something that is obviously half-baked (at best). There's no vision, there's no attention to detail, there's no careful UX design. It's just "oh shit we need AI right?"

Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown.
Actually it's the investors that wanted some gimmick to sell a billion brand new iPhones that's the letdown. AI is just a bunch of bytes that can't do anything unless someone's greed gets it to do something.
I hate these kinds of articles because they keep making excuses for the actual problem. I mean right there, it was right there in the story and CNN buried the lead.
The real reason companies are doing this is because Wall Street wants them to. Investors have been salivating for an Apple “super cycle” — a tech upgrade so enticing that consumers will rush to get their hands on the new model.
It's right there and CNN and many other media keep handing out passes on it blaming something else. Investors are greedy ass bastards and will use literally anything from magic beans to snake oil if it means they can make five extra cents. The investors, the Wall Street bastards are the problem. THEY ARE THE FUCKING LETDOWN. Never forget that.
I bet my fucking left kidney, that if there's a "victory" over AI and it goes away. Those bastards will be back with some new flashy thing nobody asked for. I bet both my fucking kidneys, that's how sure I am of it. Nobody solves shit, unless they solve that first.
- it goes deeper than just “investors are greedy” though. Most people making these investment decisions are doing it at the behest of other people who have handed them their saving in exchange for returns. Those people aren’t privy to the nature of how money is getting invested and why, they hire someone else for that, the investors.
  The investors may be making short sighted, stupid decisions, but they’re doing it because they’re pursuing their own personal incentives, get a raise, a promotion, or just not get fired. The managers are doing the same. If they don’t do it, someone else will.
  It’s not the fault or moral failing of any one individual, but a fault in the system of incentives. A failure in the fundamental structure of how we decide how investments are made, in how we accumulate capital for investment.

This is because AI (vis-a-vis LLMs) became a religion to many, rather than a technology.

You're a letdown!
- Fuck you dad!
  
  I have no son!

What a trash article. The writer's personal opinion on AI couldn't be coming any more clearly through. Just give me the fact - I don't need to be told what to think.
- the article is not a news story, it is a personal analysis. of course it will show the author’s opinion

Both of those can be true

It's a huge sham. It's going to pop. All the money after the initial reveal has been wasted.

The party can never fail, it can only be failed.
Liberal anthem on Lemmy.

No I think Apple AI is perfect. Please never improve the notification summaries. In fact I want them to go back to the launch summaries, they're not as good as they used to.

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