Understanding the scope of Apple Intelligence and OpenAI

Apple_Intelligence_101 wrote:

Do you think Apple Intelligence and OpenAI are just for certain people, things, software programs?

Your question is really too vague to give much of an answer to. Only you can decide if either Apple Intelligence or LLMs like ChatGPT are useful to you.

I find them very useful under specific circumstances. I can, for example, ask ChatGPT to create a template for a grant budget justification based on the grant solicitation and the regulations under which the funder operates. It does it quickly and quite well. But what's important is that I have defined the limits of what I want it to do. This is a fairly specific use in a specific industry. And it's very low stakes. But if I catch any of the faculty using AI to do the bulk of the writing of a grant, we are in big trouble.

But as MrHoffman noted, the accuracy is unreliable. I would certainly never submit anything AI-generated to a judge or Congress without carefully vetting every single source and citation.

The term Artificial Intelligence or Apple Intelligence is a misnomer.

There is no intelligence.

There is only statistical next-word guessing, based on enormous text corpora.

Resource-intensive text auto-completion.

Large Language Models can be useful, as can be machine learning, and can also be hazardous.

If you need the answer to be right, an LLM can and probably will fail you.

Anthony Moser has an opinion, with citations:

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

MrHoffman wrote:

Anthony Moser has an opinion, with citations:

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Very interesting piece. Brutally thoughtful.