[PaulHoule]

I was involved in three efforts to commercialize foundation models before they were ready in the 2010s so I have a good picture of how progress works at this sort of thing and the pace a lot of the industry has been talking about is unrealistic: like people were disappointed with the rate of development of Apple Intelligence but it's actually progressed at about the rate I expected.

[joshuastuden]

That seems to be because Apple's AI division sucks. OpenAI came in 2018 and chatGPT 2.0 was already way better than anything Apple ever did.

[tyre]

I mean, Apple Intelligence has been a boondoggle. Siri has been consistently 3+ years behind in capabilities compared to even open source equivalents.

Feels less like the pace of foundation model development and more so a specific failure of one organization to do something important.

[lanstin]

Bad capabilities but maybe less wrong output? All the funny memes of Google explaining some fake aphorism is t really something Apple product would go for. Successful navigation of technology over the decades requires some timing finesse. I don’t know.

[bel8]

Siri fails simple tasks often, I don't know about less wrong output.