Unsurprising, but also disappointing, to see a lot of scoffing at Apple’s AI announcements. I’m excited for the future, especially if tech giants can drive ethical/responsible use of generative models to change our relationship with computers. Acknowledge the challenges and push for responsible use.

@grubz I think over time, the doomers will be proven wrong. Spending any serious time with GenAI should make people walk away saying “holy crap I can’t wait until I can ‘xyz!’”

I think “regular” people will love what Apple introduced, provided it works as promised. I see people complaining about genMoji, for example, because they don’t think the images are that great. Those will obviously get better, and the context for these images is as an alternative to animated gifs and actual emoji, so come on now!

@cleverdevil I think so too. Honestly if someone would have told me a year ago that Apple was integrating genai on iOS I would have been repulsed. But then I eventually started playing around with Pi and ChatGPT and I did a complete 180 lol there’s so much potential

@grubz have you tried Ollama? If you’re more of a power user and comfortable with the shell, you’ll love it. Many models to choose from, pipe in data from the command line, etc. It rocks!

@cleverdevil you know, I never even considered trying that one on its own. I use Perplexity a lot and it uses Llama 3 for one of its models. I’ll give it a shot - downloading to my Linux laptop as we speak!

@grubz I used it to build the AI features for my “magic poster” project (writeup to come soon) - www.youtube.com/watch

@cleverdevil scoffing is what people do to Apple .. they are used to it.

@cleverdevil oh no way! that’s a really cool idea. I’d love to do something like that with my record collection. Man, my little laptop is way too weak to run llama3 lol I’m going to look for something a little lighter. I’m definitely intrigued