alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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tyre • today at 6:08 PM
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.
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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.