In this video I discuss Apples new aritifical intelligence (Apple Intelligence) that they're releasing with iOS 18 on select iPhone 15 devices.My merch is av...

TL;DW: Apple Intelligence is Apple training their models locally on your personal Apple product data (aka anything you do on an iPhone, Mac, iPad or your Apple ID) using their Apple Silicon chips as well as building a Apple Siri voice assistant client for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The features seem gatekept to newer Apple products and they claim it’s opt-in.

It looks like “AI” is here to stay as capitalists have placed it in most supply chains and industries. Goes without saying, but don’t buy Apple, you’re just buying yourself a one-way trip to a digital jail where the walls are made out of “seamless apple ecosystem” and “shiny metal devices that are cold to the touch.”

Especially don’t buy anything from the Apple Store because that’s trashy Global North treat brain behavior.

  • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    I’m really sorry if this is a stupid question, but

    There’s a language translation service for the OCR output, too. I can point my phone at a brochure or menu in a language I can’t read, activate the camera, and immediately read a surprisingly good translation: this is an actually useful feature of AI. (The ability to tag all the photos in my Photos library with the names of people present in them, and to search for people, is likewise moderately useful: the jury is still out on the pet recognition, though.)

    My two-year-old Motorola does all this, and I’m pretty sure my last one did as well.

    Are the iphones just doing it that much better than my shitty android phone?

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      No idea tbh. OCR is not big deal but the author there is focusing on the translation aspect of the experience. If your Motorola phone is an Android, it is highly likely that the translation is done on a server somewhere. Your phone sends the text it wants to translate to a server and the server, being a more powerful computer than your phone, sends back to your phone the translated text. The difference with Apple’s newer stuff is that the translation is done on the phone/macbook/ipad itself.

        • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          It should work without internet. The models and software needed to use those models are part of the OS itself. But with tech companies you never know. Apple is marketing their AI features as more “private” than what the market has to offer right now so it would be stupid if they make you require an internet connection for it.

        • farting_weedman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          I just tested this on a 14 in airplane mode. Yes ocr translation works offline without the ai software (this phone won’t be supported by the package).

          You gotta download the language packs to be able to translate though.