Not so. Training requires huge amounts of data to produce a model, but the resulting models can be tailored from large to small, with diminishing returns the larger you get. Some perfectly capable, not state-of-the-art LLMs (e.g. DLite) only need a few hundred MBs to exhibit ChatGPT-like behavior that would be sufficient for narrowly-focused tasks. I could easily imagine a lightweight AI model being used to make pretty much any of Apple’s existing AI tools (e.g autocorrect, on-device object identification/indexing in the photo library, speech transcription) better.

It’s also worth mentioning that Slashdot reported a few weeks ago that Apple researchers published a paper indicating they had a fairly large breakthrough that would enable significantly better performance from models that can run on-device. So, this isn’t something they might do one day: it’s something they’ve already confirmed they have working.

Google is one of the companies that built the tools that allow propaganda to be made much more efficiently, funny its own employees fell for it hook line and sinker.

In the age when males are beating females in sports by pretending to be females the structural inability to tell the truth, to provide negative feedback is not only hurting female sports. Musk will never land a star ship on the Moon or Mars or anything because he is a sharlatan and he hires former government officials who signed government checks, he is burning through billions of tax money with every flight, all of these star ship flights are pointless. Gaza residents and Hamas operatives not only indistinguishable, they share the same values. People protesting pro terrorism (against Israel) are wrong for the same reasons this male athlete is participating in female sports. USA denying help to Ukraine is literally murdering thousands of Ukrainians and promoting putinism, which is terrorism. USA federal reserve has created the inflation by monetizing government debt and so the economy is dying. The planet is going to become extremely hostile to people because we are still burning coal, oil and gas for power and heat production instead of building more nuclear power plants. There are more and more lies all over.

These Googlers are a sad reflection of the modern approach to reality - our game is ignorance, lies and denial and these protests are just a form of it.

Terrorists are very good at pushing their messages, this is clear today. ruZia, hamas, Iran, north korea even, apparently they are very effective at this entire psyops thing. Israel needs to eliminate the threat, AFAIC this can entirely mean whiping out the entire Gaza population also I hope they take out Iran's rocket and drone manufacturing capabilities, this would help both, Israel and Ukraine.

It actually isn’t as crazy as you think. In much the same way that there’s dedicated silicon in most CPUs for video encoding or encryption, Apple’s SoCs—both the M- and A-series—have for years been including dedicated chips for AI, tailored to their models. Hitting a general purpose CPU with an LLM is slow and power hungry, as you suggest, but these dedicated chips can do it far more efficiently, especially if the model they’re using is a lightweight (read: less capable, more focused) model tailored for mobile use.

This is absurd and patently false. They give you a paltry 5 GB of free iCloud storage, so right away we know they aren’t backing up “everything” by default. More importantly, iCloud Backup, the feature you’re talking about, is disabled by default. You’re prompted to enable it during initial setup, but you can easily choose not to, just like with Siri and the rest of their opt-in features.

And their features that share data with Apple are opt-in, not opt-out like you’re claiming. They have a specific sharing screen with a specific sharing icon whenever you’re prompted to opt-in to a feature that will share any data with Apple. Simply say no. You can even skip setting up an Apple ID if you want.

I’d challenge you to name a single feature that shares user data with Apple that is enabled by default on a brand new iPhone.

That said, I agree that their privacy focus is a convenient way for them to spin a weakness as a strength. Apple tried to get into social networks (e.g. anyone remember iTunes Ping?) and failed. Likewise in most of these other areas where their competitors have strength. Having failed to break into those fields, they finally realized they could spin their inability to collect data en masse as a strength while leveraging the trust that lever builds by asking people to share their data anyway. People buy it and share the data.

The "workaround" is that they eventually bi-licensed the iOS version under more permissive terms, meaning GPLv2 wasn't in play at all.

GPLv2 licensed code is not allowed in the Apple App Store to begin with, so while that may be true, it doesn’t matter here.

GPLv2 contains a right to “make a copy for your neighbor” that is fundamentally incompatible with any app stores that employ DRM (hence why VLC was removed from the App Store over a decade ago). As such, the only part of his license that would still be relevant is the part where he says:

Suffice to say, whether under the GPLv2 or the developer’s more expansive terms, the knock-off didn’t have a valid license under which to distribute the app via the App Store.

In this case, the “The company said it sent the alerts...at 12pm Pacific Time Wednesday” would be a pretty good indication that if you received a notice from “Apple” at that exact moment that it’s probably legitimate. I agree that your advice/question is valid in general, but these users have confirmation.

Also, there was no call to action, other than to be aware and be careful, so there’s no risk of phishing, which is a hallmark of legitimate messages.

So what that he encouraged or developed something, he is not the person who had actual access to this information, he never worked for any agency in USA where he would have to promise not to disclose information, to him (or anyone who doesn't work for such agencies) status of any 'secret' information is completely irrelevant, as it should be.

For example, if I egged on some general to disclose top secret information about some project and then he did disclose it, it would be on the general, not on me or anyone who encouraged him. HE IS THE ONE WHO PROMISED NOT TO DISCLOSE IT NO MATTER WHAT, not me, not anyone else.

I am not a 'right wing', I am not a 'left wing', I am a libertarian, anarcho capitalist, it puts me completely outside of what is considered to be normal politics in the USA by the way and I say that Assange has done nothing wrong at all and he is being terrorized because he embarrassed people who have power.

*this* is what "proves" it? Not the kidnappings, the torture, the murders? )

Yeah, you don't understand what will actually happen. What will actually happen is just more terrorism by the government that is already terrorist in nature. Kadyrov is a murderer, torturer, terrorist, his fame to claim was that he murdered his first russian at the age of 16. Today he routinely murders anyone who opposes his rule in any way, real or imaginary. His son kidnaps and beats a kid who posts something online that Kadyrov finds offensive. People routinely disappear, never to be seen again. People get tortured for anything that Kadyrov doesn't like.

At the same time Chechnia's economy only exists because putin provides Chechnia with billions of dollars every year from the russian budget.

You don't understand what is actually happening there. They don't care about law or whatever, if they hear something they don't like, you'll disappear and be raped and tortured and killed and that's about it. This entire thing about the music is really nothing at all, it just means that if someone *hears* music that is not Chechen they will report you and you will be gone.

OpenAI already has licenses available wherein they do not use your prompts for training purposes. If you’re working at an institution, they should already be using the appropriate license.

For once we’re talking about Canadians, not Americans!

Also, both plaster and concrete construction are perfectly normal in various parts of the US. Plaster has been steadily falling out of favor, however, at least from what I understand.

You are correct. What Canada needs is a 3d printed AI government, which would be a vast improvement over Trudeau.

It only needs to last long enough for a single successful rip to my media streaming server. After that, the disc only exists to satisfy my moral and ethical obligations, so I really don't care whether the disc works, so long as it remains in my possession. Library copies are great for that reason: dirt cheap and only need to work once.

Once they're ripped, the discs go in sleeves that live in a storage box in a closet (to minimize space used while keeping the discs intact for as long as possible just in case we need to re-rip), the DVD/blu-ray boxes go in a storage bag that lives in the attic (they can dry rot for all I care), and any digital codes get redeemed so that we have digital access via as many avenues as possible. The ripped copy is backed up both locally and in the cloud.