This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself. He has not.
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But the BBC does not appear to be the only news publisher which has had headlines misrepresented by Apple's new AI tech.
We wanted to humanise it, make it easy and fun to use every day. So that's what Apple Intelligence is. It takes this incredible new capability, and rather than making that a destination and putting it into an Apple Intelligence app, instead, we've integrated it into the features of the products you're already using.
If Apple Intelligence is going to improve Siri, it has to understand what’s being asked and do something sensible. In the past, Siri’s failure mode was mostly binary—it either did what you wanted or failed in a predictable way. With Apple Intelligence, Siri seems primed to fail in ever broader and more unpredictable ways, which could reduce our enthusiasm for using it for even simple tasks.
Although the AirPods Pro 2 worked well at home, its use when my grandmother went outside was more limited. When she went to her fitness center to work out, she was worried that they might get in the way or that she might lose them. There were also occasions when she felt awkward about wearing the earphones in the first place, like when she was having dinner with friends or attending a music recital.
Today, Apple was honored with a record 29 nominations across 10 programs for the 3rd Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, with nods for series and specials including “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock,” “The Velveteen Rabbit,” “Jane,” “Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie,” “Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin,” “Frog and Toad,” “Lovely Little Farm,” “Interrupting Chicken,” “CURSES!” and the “Shape Island” episode “The Winter Blues.” The winners will be revealed on Saturday, March 15, 2025.
Streaming services like Netflix, Apple TV+ or Prime Video could be eager to beef up their services with arguably the best-known children’s show of all time.
Many people are going to be just fine with their current computers that take slightly longer to do heavy tasks and require a little waiting around. But if you’re the type that makes their living doing creative work, and saving time in your edits and workflows will noticeably benefit your business, your craft, or your sanity, then an M4 Pro or M4 Max laptop is worth it.
It’s the holiday season, and Apple TV+ has a variety of fitting titles for getting in the spirit. Here are three must-see holiday specials I highly recommend: one’s a movie, another’s a fun short based on a beloved property, and finally there’s a TV classic.
In the third entry of the Apple Immersive Video series called Wild Life, we’re treated to an in-depth and underwater dive with Epic Diving out of Florida to swim with tiger sharks.
Anker has released its thinnest MagSafe-compatible power bank, measuring about a third of an inch thick. It’s only got a 5,000mAh battery inside, so you probably won’t get two full iPhone charges with it, but Anker has updated it with 15W Qi2 wireless charging speeds so your phone can charge faster.
In 2020, the disaster foreshadowed literally one sentence ago struck. Beta versions of MacOS 11 broke ACE, our then-current audio capture technology, and the damage looked permanent. When we spoke briefly to Apple during WWDC 2020, our appeals for assistance were flatly rejected. We spent weeks attempting to get ACE working again, but eventually we had to admit defeat. ACE as we knew it was dead in the water, and all options for replacing it involved substantial reductions in functionality. Though we did not discuss it publicly at the time, things looked grim for the future of our products.
Thankfully, we had three things going for us. First, in the 18 years since our inception, we had built up quite a large user base. In addition, the massive shift to working from home caused by the COVID-19 pandemic had created a corresponding surge in usage of our products. More than any other time in our company’s history, users were relying on us to do their jobs. That made it an especially bad time for Apple to break our tools. Lastly, because we also had a licensing program for ACE, we weren’t the only ones affected. Over a dozen other companies, some quite large, would be harmed if ACE ceased to function.
Not only did Apple Intelligence made up a news summary, it put the forged summarization into the mouth of someone else. If you ask me, that's two strikes against Apple's AI.
And yes, there are multiple reports that Apple Intelligence is classifying phishing emails as valid and important.
Is this the butterfly-keyboard event for Apple's software team? Will Apple be able to eventually fix all these problems, or will generative AI proved to be fundamentally incapable for the jobs given?
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