I just took a test drive with a very sensitive and rather complex document, and an associated letter of confluent and the key point summary was friggin' AMAZING.

* There was a small instance of American idiom (gotten where UK English would not normally use it) in the "friendly" rewrite;
* It kept becoming "unavailable" and wanting a smaller selection, with bigger tasks, although the "Professional" worked and was pretty solid, if a little wordy.

In reply to a post by ian_c:

I just took a test drive with a very sensitive and rather complex document, and an associated letter of confluent and the key point summary was friggin' AMAZING.

Unlike the BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/12/13/bbc-cries...

Yeah, that's notification summaries, not what I was referring to - the very nature of headlines makes this sort of thing likely and, of course, nobody in a news organisation every got fired for whinging about Apple.

The "key points" that it pulled out from my document were top notch.

In reply to a post by ian_c:

Yeah, that's notification summaries, not what I was referring to - the very nature of headlines makes this sort of thing likely and, of course, nobody in a news organisation every got fired for whinging about Apple.

Agreed, but computer created summaries of notifications or documents CAN cause the wrong conclusions. This was a nice example.

The "key points" that it pulled out from my document were top notch.

Excellent, so the world has four choices, Apple AI, openAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and MS Copilot.

A fifth choice - read the &*£#@ thing.

Obviously.

This was a test, but out the in Realworldland, sometimes time is a factor - especially when one party might want to weigh the other down in to run down the clock and clock up the bills.

I don't think I will bother with any of them, I disabled Gemini on my phone, Google Assistant is fine for me, not that i use it as I use Alexa on it anyway. Like they are saying about an updated version of Alexa is coming, if you pay for it, not bothered, Alexa is fine.

Looking at the mistakes these new AI things makes, I think I will give them a miss.
I use Alexa to turn lights on and off, wake me up, turn coffee machine on and off and my TV, play music and maybe answer the odd question.
That is enough AI for me.


When I update Mac Os, I will disable Apple Ai, which is only ChatGPT most of the time anyway, and I certainly don't want to use that

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

When I update Mac Os, I will disable Apple Ai,

It comes disabled on Mac, iPhone, iPad. You have to specifically choose to enable.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

It comes disabled on Mac, iPhone, iPad. You have to specifically choose to enable.

Fair enough, that is better than windows then, when all the Ai stuff comes enabled and you have to go through different settings to disable bits of it and not sure if it is all disabled.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Fair enough, that is better than windows then, when all the Ai stuff comes enabled and you have to go through different settings to disable bits of it and not sure if it is all disabled.

Note Apple Intelligence has a BETA tag on the icon.

Which Windows version and type have you experienced the problem?

Edited by jchamier (Mon 16-Dec-24 19:20:19)