Did you see the Keynote ? ! Tim Cook tell the affair ! The “ one more matter ” matter !
Congratulations , Apple Keynote bingo participant around the man .
Now , we could talk about Vision Pro for time of day but allow ’s not . We have the whole rest of the year to do that . And is anyone occupy stake that Apple ’s definition of “ betimes next year ” means the first half of the yr ? answer it to say that the Macalope thought Vision Pro was intriguing , technologically telling , very weird , fairly off - putt , and , of course , expensive .
( If this is Vision Pro , wake him when Vision Amateur get along out . )
alternatively , let ’s lecture about what Appledidn’ttalk about . Apple speak about iPhones , Macs , iPads , Apple TVs , HomePods , the Apple Watch , operating systems , dystopian headsets , health , physical exercise , marching bands … so many thing .
But there was no mention of AI .
This is in stark line to its competitors at their recent event . Google , for example , said “ AI ” over 140 timesat I / O last calendar month . That ’s a quite a little of times . The Macalope could n’t find a classical count of the number of time Microsoft said “ AI ” at its Build conference but giventhe number of AI - pertain elbow grease it foretell , let ’s just say it ’s no slouch , either .
Of naturally , Apple does n’t really apply that terminus very much . It talks about “ machine learning ” a good deal , but not AI . And it did mention machine learning at yesterday ’s keynote , but not in the context of the confabulation session interaction that Google and Microsoft are presently ghost with .
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Look , the Macalope gets it . nerd have wanted a impudent robot sidekick to spill to ever sinceRobby the Robotfirst talked back to his remarkably sexist and handsy crew mates inForbidden Planetin 1956 . That ’s in reality about when the term “ artificial intelligence activity ” was coined . Which is too bad because it ’s such an incredible misnomer . In an interview in the Financial Times , author and note smart individual Ted Chiang bemoan the condition , pronounce it has caused a passel of confusion .
So if he had to invent a terminus , what would it be ? His reply is instant : apply statistics .
That ’s really what it is . It ’s not to say it ’s not impressive , but there ’s no active “ intelligence information ” behind these tumid spoken language models that are give back what they bump as the good answer to interrogation based on a statistical analytic thinking of a corpus of input . Honestly , no interpretation of the terminal figure “ intelligence activity ” really utilise to them . They ’re surely not sentient and look at the number of times they answer with information that is incorrect , they ’re not that smart , either . Claiming that1 kilo of steel and 2 kilograms of steel count the samemight be staking a bluff position , but it ’s not “ well-informed . ”
Unless it ’s some sort of evil intelligence . Which the Center for AI Safetykind of seems to be worried about .
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal - scale risk such as pandemic and atomic state of war .
elbow room to bring the room down , experts . severalize you what , since “ AI ” seems to be not accurate and causing confusion , why do n’t we just rename it“Torment link ” ? At least the U.S. Air Force functionary who enounce an AI had wipe out its human operator has sincewalked back that storyas only being a “ thought experimentation . ”
So far as we lie with , the Torment Nexus has n’t killed anyone . Yet . Today . As of … whatever time it is currently in your particular time zone .
The Macalope has little doubt that somewhere someone is clamorously eff aside at a keyboard with the raging take that Apple ’s unsuccessful person to say “ AI ” at least 100 time at its WWDC Keynote is just another sign that it ’s fall further behind the competition .
For his part , the horny one might argue that not only is it too early to be shipping these unreal nick - dongs with a theoretical taste perception for human stock , but it might also be too early to be ship the Vision Pro .
Well , to be fair , that ’s not shipping for some time . Quite perchance almost a year .
