Doesn’t matter what customers want, it’s the shareholders.
Comment on Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade
dink@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Apple is reportedly planning a big loss of revenue due to the M4 Mac upgrade”
terminhell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They want tools that do things and toys that are fun. So maybe. It depends on what Apple will use it for.
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do the majority of users really want AI in their computers?
What this could mean is the ability to replace (or upgrade) something like Siri into a model that runs locally on your machine. This means that it wouldn’t need to route your questions/requests through someone else’s computer (the cloud). You wouldn’t even need to connect the computer to the internet and you would still be able to work with that model.
Besides, there are many companies that don’t want you to pass on their internal documents to companies like OpenAI (ChatGPT). With locally run models, there aren’t any problems with this as that data will not be uploaded anywhere.
4am@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean that depends? Does it actually work? Does it record all my data constantly and send it to Apple in a continuous stream, or is it fully local? will it actually provide some useful service like better search, will it be able to bootstrap projects for me? Learn my workflow patterns and assist by preparing stuff preemptively, or make intelligent suggestions on how to improve efficiency? Can it attempt to organize my awful, trash filing system of pictures, movies, half-started projects into something less painful to look at? Can it help my computer get out of my way when I don’t feel like being all computery (which I love but sometimes it shouldn’t be the focus)? Can it do these things well and without leaking them to some cloud?
Because that’s what we’ve been trying to make computers do since the PC first came along and I’d fuckin pay for that.