“In an exclusive interview, the CEO of Apple talks about artificial intelligence in iPhones and why he doesn’t want to talk about the future,” Nanette Byrnes reports for MIT Technology Review.
“Though Apple is often termed a laggard on AI when compared to companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, Cook argues that machine learning is already well integrated into iPhones,” Byrnes reports. “Cook ticks off a list: image recognition in our photos, for example, or the way Apple Music learns from what we have been listening to and adjusts its recommendations accordingly. Even the iPhone battery lasts longer now because the phone’s power management system uses machine learning to study our usage and adjust accordingly, he says.”
“Cook says the fact that the press doesn’t always give Apple credit for its AI may be due to the fact that Apple only likes to talk about the features of products it is ready to ship, while many others ‘sell futures,'” Byrnes reports. “While he calls AI ‘profound’ and increasingly capable of doing unbelievable things, on matters that require judgment he’s not comfortable with automating the human entirely out of the equation. ‘When technological advancement can go up so exponentially I do think there’s a risk of losing sight of the fact that tech should serve humanity, not the other way around.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Pretty much all Google and Microsoft do, beyond serving web ads and knocking off Apple operating systems, is “sell futures.”
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…because he doesn’t see the future.
If Tim Cook has no idea of Apple’s future direction then his future is very bleak indeed.
Pipeline T doesn’t skate to where the puck will be, hell, he can’t even find the keys to the Zamboni.
Wow, we should call you Butt-vinnik. With all those free shitty comments.
In the meantime, fasten your seatbelt and watch the end of the year for Apple.
Your butt will bleed pucks… In the near future that said…
Ya want a tissue, spike? To wipe away your tears?
What?…you mean like the fake POTUS sees the future as a return to the early 20th Century where deregulation allowed wholesale industrial raping of the planet and exploitation of their slave workers?
Whooosh…that’s the puck_of_irony whizzing past your head into the future, leaving you far behind.
Yes, Tim Cook and Donald Trump are amazingly similar.
And we have another clueless basement CEO!
MDY Take – “Pretty much all Google and Microsoft do, beyond serving web ads and knocking off Apple operating systems, is “sell futures.”
Yea, they’re selling Apple futures.
For several years these other companies have been first out of the gate with all these features. Apple with all its money is complacent and slow.
Quite ironic that MDN, a Google Adsense customer that owes its entire income to disgusting ad tracking, would choose to bite the hand that feeds it. Hypocrites.
That’s good old MDN, as magnetic as they are. They don’t miss out on the IRON in their ironic existence. Still I read.
Cant see the future if your always looking at someones rear. Errrr i meant looking to the rear. To come up with innovation requires forward thinking and being way ahead. Not lagging behind. .
Ahem! Apple was ‘selling futures’ at the Monday WWDC keynote. HomePod. Wait until December…
So tsk tsk Mr. Cook.
He might well have many ideas about the future. He’s just not going to talk much about it or “sell” it. By the way, the general consumer has no idea who is first to market with their products. If Apple didn’t exist, I don’t think we’d see much in the way of real innovation.
You’re a fool if you believe that bs you’re spewing
Hey Rob, love them exploding batteries… The hyped future that is never really delivered..,
Apple, delivering the real usable future. Just saying. 🙂
The Apple we all knew doesn’t exist.
The future? I’m looking forward to full AI capabilities integrated into AR avatars. Over the past couple of days some developers have begun testing Apple’s ARKit:
Imagine external cameras embedded into Apple TVs, Apple Speakers, etc. that read users’ expressions and prompt AI AR avatars to respond appropriately.
I just did another search for ARKit on YouTube (My first ARKit search for today), and came across this one:
Look how fluid that is. And, it’s being viewed on an iPhone or iPad. This AR stuff could be bigger than the invention of the modern smartphone.
You’re easy to please.
And you have zero imagination. Tough that.
I imagine much. I’m dismayed that Apple can’t.
Found this too. ARKit’s gonna be huge.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq2NChZ3c4E&w=560&h=315%5D
In the tech world, most are always looking to the future and not the present or past. Fact of life.
Tim Cook is looking so far into the future that his vision will never exist in the present of existing company. For Tim it’s all too easy to promise than deliver.
Blah blah blah….so predictable. So boring.
Yet you still read.
Spare it Gotcha,
Understand that Kolache doesn’t even know what he is talking about. This stuff is way over his head.
Kolache is sticked in 2015 with his TC overbaked comments.
Poor kid.
I see your tears, spike. They make me smile.