Anyone planning to buy the iphone 17?

[harshness]

Any guesses as to whether Apple Intelligence will be a thing? Much is being made about how far along the competition is on that front.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Any guesses as to whether Apple Intelligence will be a thing? Much is being made about how far along the competition is on that front.

I think a better question might be, does it really matter? The commercials Samsung and Google are running are full of the same nonsense about what Gemini can do to supposedly improve your life, like explain why your plant leans toward the window or why you're doing your yoga position wrong. In my opinion, neither of those are compelling reasons to rush out and buy a Gemini capable phone. When Apple first touted their Apple Intelligence it was the same goofy schtick.

 

[Foxbat]

The only thing I've really used "Apple Intelligence" on has been to "erase" items from a picture, a feature that Affinity Photo had five or six years ago. Not really AI, just useful picture editing to clean up an image.

I prefer to read things on my own and draw my own conclusions, thank you very much…

 

[TheForce]

When it comes to AI I use two, Google search that does a pretty good job of understanding plain English now. It's fast and most of the time gives me answers I was looking for. Most recently I asked Google search to explain my estimated tax due considering the latest changes for retired people over age 78. I double checked it in Grok4 that I get for free and got the same answer. Grok took about 5 minutes to compute while Google did a more brief answer in about 10 seconds.
So will I use Apple Intelligence? I doubt it because if it makes decisions like selling Apple Vision Pro for $3500 when the Meta Quest 3 competitor is better is only $500. That's not very smart, IMO.

 

[comfortably_numb]

I think most AI is just a gimmick at this point. They need to monetize it, so obviously it's going to be filled with bias.

Are any universities or non-profit research firms developing AI?

 

[harshness]

The only thing I've really used "Apple Intelligence" on has been to "erase" items from a picture, a feature that Affinity Photo had five or six years ago.

That's surely more of an indictment of Apple Intelligence than it is a take on AI as a day-to-day tool.

 

[harshness]

Are any universities or non-profit research firms developing AI?

AI, in terms of a software application, is already developed (with the glaring exception of Apple Intelligence). What remains is broader exposure of the models to data.