Something wrong with your Mac? Why not ask ChatGPT, or the new Bing, to diagnose it and recommend a solution?
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Are you worried about your Mac learning about you and what you do? Machine learning isn’t well understood, so here’s an introduction.
Trying macOS betas, support for Catalina, is the M1 dead, and what does the ANE do all day? What should come from WWDC this year.
For some images, Visual Look Up fails so completely that it’s not even offered. Could this be exploited as a way of blocking image recognition?
A promising start for a new feature which could, with a little improvement, become a uniquely powerful tool.
Apple’s controversial proposals to check photos for CSAM content before they’re uploaded to iCloud depend on image matching, as explained here.
What has technology done for us over the last three months of pandemic? A look back with the wisdom of hindsight, and a pub menu.
We can quantitate the risks of cracking conventional passwords. AI-based systems using biometrics are known to be brittle, and to have exploitable blind spots. Can we trust them in security systems?
Apple keeps its promise with High Sierra and new Macs, but is less helpful in the log, and courts danger in AI.
We have become confused as to what artificial intelligence might be, and condemned remote-control vehicles as robots. Let’s correct this, and refocus more accurately.