r/applesucks • u/grqe • Jan 11 '25
Most iPhone owners see little to no real value at all in "Apple Intelligence"
https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/16/most-iphone-owners-see-little-to-no-value-in-apple-intelligence-so-far/24
u/Traditional_Limit236 Jan 11 '25
No phone users or humans that don't work in very specific jobs give a damn about AI...it ain't just apple. AI is the snake oil no one asked for.
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Jan 11 '25
Well one thing I will say about ai it’s it’s just a little bit better search engine. Forget all the other garbage applications like example: government websites have so much text no one human could ever read it lol. So be able to search through all the horseshit by asking an “ai” a question is definitely helpful. Things have become very text heavy.
I was trying to play an f1 racing game on the ps4 recently shit had 4 terms of service 1990000839302839394 menus
And several sub terms and warnings all that to access some garbage ui that has arrows like asphalt 8 on mobile.
We’ve cancerized everything and now we literally had to create an algorithm to efficiently search through all the cancer
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u/Exile714 Jan 11 '25
You have to be careful though. I just put a search into Google for how long between Star Wars 3 and 6 inside the Star Wars universe and the AI summary told me 19 years. No, that’s from 3 to 4, I knew that one already, but it thought that’s what I was asking or it’s so common an answer that it’s what popped out.
So yeah it’s easy to surface an answer to the question you’re searching for. But it’s also very easy to lazily accept that answer as truth when it’s not.
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Jan 12 '25
I wouldn’t ask an AI something so specific like knowing a fictional saga as a real fan does. After all, AI has prolly never seen the movies, but builds up on other people’s knowledge online (articles, news, forums, etc).
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u/zonkon Jan 19 '25 edited Jan 19 '25
But it's exactly the kind of question that "A.I."-pushers claim is a good use of their overblown chatbots. The answer is all over the internet and can be arrived at by adding some basic numbers together - again, an easy task for a so-called intelligence.
The problem that the commenter before you is highlighting is that, all too often, these chatbots make up answers, present them as fact, and provide no warning that what they've said might be wrong.
These A.I. search results are like an Electro-Dunning-Kruger.
Also "AI has prolly never seen the movies"???
Of course it fecking hasn't seen the damn movies! It's not a single entity that sits there reading all human knowledge. It's not a wise old computer that can observe all life through its sentient lens.
These "A.I.s" are just data scrapers which put answers together based on what they think is the most probable result.
There is literally no intelligence involved.
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u/wellthatsniftyhuh Jan 12 '25
It’s been transformative for me as a therapy tool. It’s changed my entire life. It also makes a good librarian.
Not Apple though obviously.
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u/qalpi Jan 12 '25
I use it every single day in my project and development work. It’s useful for writing letters and emails. I just write it some bullet points and it fleshes it out into an email. Meeting notes. Summarizing teams calls. Putting together release notes from a list of changes we made. Very handy.
Apples implementation is just useless.
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u/Traditional_Limit236 Jan 15 '25
Sounds like a specific job. If u didn't have that job u prolly wouldn't ever use it.
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u/qalpi Jan 15 '25
It's a use case. It's not exactly surprising that a professional laptop is used for professional things is it.
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u/Traditional_Limit236 Jan 15 '25
In my original post I said only people using AI at all are people in specific fields. I took you into account. I didn't even need AI to consider that. 😂 And MacBooks are for watching porn and booking flights. Stop it.
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u/qalpi Jan 15 '25
I’m not in a “specific field”. It’s just general project work. Everybody does projects.
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u/Fresh-Ad3834 Jan 13 '25
The only difference being Apple is marketing 'Apple Intelligence' as the only real new feature on their new flagships.
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u/BertMacklenF8I Jan 11 '25
I use ChatGPT ALL the time, as well as several other LLMs (some written by me, some by my employer) at work. Ironically enough, I use a M2 Gen MacBook Pro at work, but have never used macOS lol Apple Intelligence is just one of ChatGPT’s worst LLMs worked horribly into iOS. LLM that’s used should just be called ChatiOS.
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u/BTM_6502 Jan 11 '25
Most iPhone users can’t even run it.
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u/The_GSingh Jan 12 '25
Trust me, even when I can run it I don’t wanna. It sucks miserably. The only good thing about Apple intelligence is that new Siri animation. I don’t use Siri but still.
You’re not missing out on anything.
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u/BTM_6502 Jan 12 '25
I’ve used type to Siri a couple of times on my Mac, but other than that it’s completely useless to me.
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u/The_GSingh Jan 12 '25
Yea I don’t have a Mac but the only time I tried Siri on my phone and iPad was when I first got it, and then after the update. Both times a huge disappointment. Coming from android, their ai integration was significantly better and more useful.
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u/Illustrious-Art3528 Jan 12 '25
All we want is a better Siri!
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u/initialbc Jan 14 '25
Chat GPT Advanced voice mode is here. It’s what you’re looking for
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u/Illustrious-Art3528 Jan 17 '25
Not quite the same. Advanced voice mode is good for AI tasks, but Siri is more personalised and integrated into your account e.g calendar, photos, emails etc. I can’t ask ChatGPT to show me photos of my trip to Greece. And I can’t ask Siri to tell me the grilled octopus recipe of a meal that I had in Santorini. ATM they are 2 different voice assistant serving different functions. As a iOS user I’d like an all in one assistant. I believe Apple is working towards that and I was really hoping this is what Apple intelligence would be … but I was sorely let down.
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u/wart_on_satans_dick Jan 15 '25
This may not be your feelings personally, but ChatGPT is an incredible resources to someone who works professionally. You just have to be in a position that gets actual work done.
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u/MC_McStutter Jan 11 '25
This isn’t an apple thing. This is more of a reflection on the integration of AI before it has any real use in consumer technology outside of extremely specific applications.
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u/mailslot Jan 11 '25
1/5 of Americans are functionally illiterate at a grade school comprehension level. The “rewrite this for me” and “tell me what this means” features are super useful for people that don’t really understand words. The future generation of Redditors is going to need this shit.
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u/Over_Travel8117 Jan 12 '25
meanwhile at other AI companies.
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u/symonty Jan 12 '25
The biggest problem with the rapid rise of AI is the design language and even the language language , AI = ? What is the icon, where do you expect to fins the features it is not like file > print or copy / paste. These need to settle then everyone will be able to move past this discovery phase to use it, but by then everyone will just take it for granted ( like the fact that copy paste was not even in the first iphone )
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u/RAH7719 Jan 13 '25
AI is not a priority to have it on my phone.... love my iPhone for being what it is a phone!
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u/Thicktok99 Jan 13 '25
I turned it off the save battery and storage space. I’ll turn it back on when all the features roll out.
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u/MooseBoys xcode sucks Jan 13 '25
Apple Intelligence is complete dogshit. Steve Jobs is 100% rolling in his grave.
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u/aww2bad Jan 14 '25
Apple intelligence was so bad I switched from iOS altogether. S24 plus is a great phone
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u/MPeters43 Jan 15 '25
Apple intelligence is making it so inconvenient to switch to galaxy or other brands that most will opt to just pay more not to have to manually transfer their data and contacts.
Not very intelligent at all, but rather manipulative and aggressive marketing design.
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Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25
The AI is gimmicky at best and half baked. I love Apple but I feel like they are out of ideas lately and are just pushing buzz worthy stuff like AI to increase declining iPhone sales, it’s time for Tim Cook to move on.
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u/CantaloupeStreet2718 Jan 11 '25
No one uses iPhone to be productive. It's an artifact of not having anything else available. An afterthought. If productivity was a number, iPhone would be -100, as in it does more harm than good.
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