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kuraine
@kuraine

my general thought on apple's wwdc thing is that they avoided saying 'ai' for everything they're doing with machine learning & generally speaking i think it worked for making people not get angry about them integrating algorithmic stuff into every aspect of the new iOS & macOS & watchOS updates

which, in the grand scheme of things, isn't super egregious, it's just something i noticed

anyway the 'machine learning generated face' thing for the vision pro face time is nightmarish & i never want to look at anyone's or have me represented by one ever


mcc
@mcc

A note: To be honest, this is the correct way to engage with "AI". The word "AI" is vague, and contains so many misleading connotations it's like using that word in a sentence actually removes information. I think it's probably better, regardless of what one is doing, to use whatever term it is you actually meant when you said "AI".

I agree with @kuraine about the horrifying AI reconstructed facetime. Even their rigged demo looked uncanny valley. Probably they should have axed or at least delayed the feature to prevent it, however mildly, poisoning the image of the whole product.


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in reply to @kuraine's post:

i’ve also noticed that every time i see them use ml stuff it doesn’t feel like it’s too annoying or anything? the most in your face the ml thing is the new autocorrect which i stan actually. i feel like apple seems to generally have a good sense at how to have ml enhance stuff in a more seamless way rather than replace stuff in a way that calls attention to itself. although this is based off of memory idk

yeah, the most obviously trend-driven thing i saw was their journaling prompts, which is mostly harmless since i dont see myself ever using an apple-developed journaling app over like, a physical journal

in reply to @mcc's post:

they could probably have contracted disney to get like the face of obi-wan in the last season of clone wars, dodged the uncanny valley and made ton of buzz among nerd