If Visual Look Up is so easy and low-power for Apple silicon Macs, maybe Tahoe’s new Foundation Models will prove more challenging, and wake up the neural engine.
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We’re in the midst of a drought in the UK. We’ve all been recommended to delete old emails and photos to economise of water use. Is that wise?
Dire warnings of the consequences of Google’s answer engine resulting in over-exploitation of the web and its exhaustion. It’s time to stand up and declare what’s written by a human, not an AI.
A mystery volume mounts from nowhere, and its name starts with Creedence. This is a cryptex, also favoured in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. Is it a ghost of the past, or harbinger of the future?
Apple silicon Macs (and iPhones and iPads) with AI enabled load 23 cryptexes to support that. This explains how that works, and how you might see an odd volume named Creedence….
Ranking search results by popularity is deeply flawed. Combined with new AI overviews, it’s already resulting in reduced publication, and will leave AI summarising AI and amplifying its errors.
As the web exploded in size, early curated directories were replaced by search engines. These were revolutionised by Google’s PageRank for popularity, and are now being replaced by AI overviews.
There are substantial differences in the structure of the internal disks in macOS, iPadOS and iOS, as shown here. And there are at least 24 cryptexes now used to support AI.
Actions are moved to its toolbar to improve use. Selected messages can now be extracted into a window for editing (all Macs) and summary using Writing Tools (Apple silicon).
Overview of how different subsystems work together during launching a notarized app, from LaunchServices to checking WritingTools and AI availability.
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