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I would like to maybe be able to say:

Set two timers, one for 20 minutes, and another for 50 minutes.

or

Turn off the lights in my living room, and my office.

That's about as advanced as I want my home assistants to be though.

How about moving away from the unicorn model into creating small, sustainable and focused companies that don't explode, but provide sustainable income.

Well, maybe, but I think the huge thing missing from this assumption is that Apple are not paying OpenAI anything, and are developing their own in-house and on-device models.

And a lot of what those on-model devices can do are what the average person will want.

And there's going to take a lot to move people meaningfully away from google.

I don't know how fully I agree with this, to be honest. Or, yes, I do - but we obviously outsource a lot to the tools we use. Rightly or wrongly we expect our search engines to source good sources and high quality information. And that has been sort of inbred into people through years of internet use.

Degrading the quality of the output of tools that were once considered reliable and safe is going to create problems, and the onus is not fully on the people using those tools, but on those creating them.

There are literal ads for Meta Ai on television. The idea they’re not selling something is absurd.

Gosh, my first job was writing HTML emails. Those heady days of lamenting the fact that some companies STILL use Lotus Notes not dead, I see.

It jumped out to me that I had to highlight and ask it to check my grammar, rather than have it be an automatic process.

I don't use Grammarly, really, but I think at least that one is more automatic?

I think there's still a myriad of concerns around the ethics of using others uncredited images to power models that aim to disenfranchise artists.

but my biggest concern is that I think they look tacky, and putting it right in the messaging apps is gonna be ... irritating.

It is funny to think about how many Apps have probably built text-generation into their product, just to get it enabled on Apple Devices for free.

Few thoughts:

It seems like this is what Rabbit's LAM was supposed to be. It is interesting to see it work, and I wonder how it will work in practice. I'm not sold on using voice for interacting with things still.

Image Generation is gross, I really didn't want this. I am not excited to start seeing how many horrible AI images I'm going to get sent.

I like Semantic Search in my photos.

This does seem like the typical Apple polish.I think this might be the first main stream application of Gen AI that I can see catching on.

I mean, it is a bit of a scam though right? I can pay for an NFT, 'own' the NFT, and still have been scammed.

In the case of this device, it told users it has functionality that, plainly, it does not have. It marketed itself based on these features. That is a scam.

I’m conflicted on this. I pay for YouTube premium - for background playing on my phone and for Ad-less on my TV.

I pay more for Netflix, and I use it a lot less.

So I’m airing on the side of agreeing, but I also think Googles tactics have been incredibly shoddy, and I can understand someone not wanting to support that.

He said creating tech companies. Not AI companies.

I get that feeling of feeling like everyone is faking being happy, and I'm glad that you've found a way to overcome it.

For me, I've always struggled with being overly cynical. I can't let nice moments be, and I can't let accomplishments lie.

I feel like I'm somewhere on the journey you are on, and I hope to get to the same destination.