Perhaps. I prefer to think of this response as a lack of imagination.

Quantum entanglement and teleportation are two distinct and separate things but not many are capable of distinguishing the two.

I'm sure you agree with me, Jim. The amount of knowledge that is abandoned daily is terrible.

I grew up with Encyclopedia Britannica, the full, physical book set. This is a travesty.

OP was making a point about operating systems, not file formats.

It. Does. Not. Matter. That. The. Wikipedia. Article. Doesn't. Specifically. Discuss. Images.

I included it for the definition in the first sentence. That's it. Not because the article is some exhaustive reference that covers every single possible current or future application, which is how you decided to treat it for no reason whatsoever.

The definitions I have provided are sufficient. You haven't challenged any of them, you just keep repeating your own opinions. I'm sorry, but I don't care about your personal interpretation of the word. You are not an authority on the meaning of words.

What the camera would be doing shouldn't be considered semantic

Well, clearly the engineering team at Apple disagrees with you. I disagree with you. The general dictionary definition of "semantic" disagrees with you. But you're clearly obsessed with "proving" your initial knee-jerk opinion is still "correct". It just feels like obstinance at this point. Goodbye.

semantics is different from grammar and syntax but uses those as its foundation

LINGUISTIC semantics does. And that is certainly the usual connotation of the word. But semantics can have a broader meaning. Why are you so insistent that it cannot? You are not arguing with me, you are arguing with dictionaries.

Cherry-picking excerpts discussing semantics in language contexts (eg the computer science quote is specifically about programming languages) doesn't somehow disprove the more general definition I have already provided.

But here are a couple more anyway:

https://www.dictionary.com/bro...
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Please note the alternate definitions discussing semiotics, signs, "significs", etc.

The closest I come to image semantics is the task of image retrieval when images (whole) are associated with their linguistic categories.

What does "whole" have to do with it? It's only valid to classify entire images? Because... you say so? The article says the algorithm "picks out specific elements of a frame — faces, landscapes, skies". That is semantic analysis. That is "units of meaning".

I'm sorry, what point are you trying to make?

That "semantic analysis" is an incorrect phrase to describe what they're doing here? It is a perfectly correct usage of the word. It's just being used in a way you haven't personally encountered before. Now you have.

Naturally a huge part of "the study of meaning" is going to revolve around what words mean.

Semantics is just the study of meaning. This assigns meaning to different parts of the image.

Semantics (from Ancient Greek: smantikós, "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and computer science.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I really think you're ignoring the economic potential here.

Extinct animals could be a lucrative tourist attraction. Come see Christmas Island mice, passenger pigeons, and wooly mammoths!

Welcome to... Holocene Park. We spared no expense.

So what are you saying? You support obstructionism on everything Biden proposes? Congress should block the CHIPS Act? Out of... spite over student loan forgiveness?

It's ridiculous how much the game has been dissected already. There are already bot leaderboards and statistical analysis galore. Soon there will be PhD dissertations with titles like Optimizing Machine Learning Techniques to Bifurcate Wordle Search Space.

Um, it's because our chakras are totally out of alignment with the galactic consciousness.

- Someone, probably

The game is also COMPLETELY client-side. The words are all stored internally and it selects the day's current word from a simple date-based algorithm.

Save a local copy, strip out the garbage, and play it free forever.

That does not sound like fun to me either way: losing, or necessarily memorizing lots of material so you have a fighting chance.

Well.. that's chess.

Brain scans of grandmasters have shown the big difference between them and amateurs is they're using their memories a lot more.