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SidShattuck | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 Very morbid. I can't see myself trusting Apple (or any other closed source big tech operator) enough to use something like this... 

But there most likely comes a point where there isn't a real choice to opt out, implied or otherwise.
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jb55 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 personalized ai assistants who offload tons of computing interface complexity. Normies will eat this up. Techies will too. It will save tons of time. There’s no going back after this. Star trek computer is where we are headed.
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Rand | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 givemeanA
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CODED SHADOWS | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Mind bending. This is a lot of power to comprehend.
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Lucky Kite | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Only if you ignore the unsolved and persistent MAJOR, high risk,problem:  It doesn't actually work.  No AI model is accurate enough to avoid disaster: there will be countless stories of AI telling your boss something you didn't want said, or making purchases you didn't want, telling you to add glue to pasta sauce. These problems aren't going away, and the only way to stop such risks is to make AI a less useful assistant, which is what a standard computer is.
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Lucky Kite | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 AI assistant will be a short lived gimmick, in the sense that if you don't mind it being completely inaccurate for all the integrated tasks you  give it, then it will  SORT OF work.  But when it makes mistakes, it will move beyond just annoying (like when alexa doesn't understand your words) to destructive and catastrophic.   Apple doesn't want to use its own AI because it doesn't want that responisibility.  It informs you that you are using OpenAI.  Because its an unreliable toy.
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crimsonleaf363 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I was ready to get rid of my Mac but I can't.