Must be, but remember the 5G event? The AI event was kind of like that. How many times can they say 5G/AI? It was to the point it became funny.
Even if Apple wasn’t hyping it, the Apple press has.
Yeah, I definitely think the media (of all varieties) has hyped AI. I bet they find it frustrating but if they don’t turn molehills into mountains no one will read their articles, tweets and blogs, or watch their videos.
I’ve not tried it yet. Is it performing as perfectly as shown in the commercials?
I don’t know, since I haven’t seen the commercials.
None of the AI stuff I’ve seen in action is particularly useful to me. I imagine, like most Apple stuff, it will get better and better over time.
Craig did say this is a many year even decades long arc of this technology playing out
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Nowhere near the level of what you see in commercials, but some of the problems are the interface. For instance, if I select the text I type here and tell AI to proofread it, it doesn’t give me an overview of what it changed, it just asks me if I want to replace what I typed with its version. It’s not a breakdown like what Grammarly would give. I read on 9to5Mac (I think it was) that sometimes it does give you the breakdown though, but it never has for me.
I am not sure if Photos stuff qualifies as AI, but as I said, Clean Up works amazingly. You don’t have much in the way of settings for it (feathering, etc), but it works well. Its suggestions on what to remove can be hilariously bad. I took a picture of a family fishing on a dock. The little girl was bored to death and trying to amuse herself. She was the reason I took the pictures. Apple’s AI suggested I remove her from the photo. (It highlights removal recommendations.) Nothing wrong with that, it just made me laugh.
Also the AI identification in Photos can be great…and bad. Tonight I went and took a bunch of duck pictures at the local wetlands. Photos quite often identifies the breed correctly, which is great. Yet this weekend I went to a place to take pictures and had location data recorded on my big camera. So when I look at those pictures in Photos, the map correctly shows their location. Yet, Photos displays the little AI discovery pin on all those photos for a found location. The AI location is wrong, despite the map showing exactly where the photo was taken. Which is also fine, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to tell it is wrong, and to quit displaying the pin.
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