[–] [S] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Siri AI is awful, so I don’t know what substances this dumbass is high on. The most notably more “intelligent” thing Siri does, is when she tells me she can’t do something that she can, and I say “The fuck you can’t”, and she replies “I will not respond to that.”

What an age we live in.

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    Apple CEO John Ternus pressured Apple senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi to “accelerate the company’s road map and move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri,” reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.

    Citing anonymous sources, Gurman writes that Ternus is “frustrated by what he sees as a reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors,” and pushed Federighi for changes in a meeting behind closed doors. Federighi, Gurman points out, has been considered an AI skeptic with concerns “about the technology’s privacy, security, societal and employment implications.”

    [–] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Yes, we can’t have the plebes getting ahold of any kind of real money without the strict appearance of towing the line, and following the rules that don’t apply to the rich. Imagine the chaos that would have ensued had this man won the prize.

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