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1. VCFundedGenYer · 1790017285 · focus · HN ↗

   I want the disk space taken from the models back.

   I will never touch this garbage and would rather use the disk space I purchased to be used for my purposes, not the industry's pointless fad bubble endeavors.

   1. mort96 · 1790018375 · focus · HN ↗

      Absolutely 100%. Now I'm very biased against this "AI" stuff in general, but even fans of "AI" can't want this, right? I mean I know some people who are heavy "AI" users and they all either have a setup with Cursor/Codex/Zed/VSCode/whatever or their preferred local model, they'd never ever want to use "whatever Apple happens to ship with the OS". Same with the model Google bundled into their browser, growing Chrome from roughly 200MB to over 4GB. Who's the target audience here?

      It's investors isn't it.

      1. logancbrown · 1790018548 · focus · HN ↗

         You can't imagine a singular person and reason who would want an improved Siri?

         1. mort96 · 1790018611 · focus · HN ↗

            On their laptop? No, not really. I guess the selling point is that your computer now suggests file names for you?

            1. wat10000 · 1790019035 · focus · HN ↗

               The selling point is being able to say things like "remind me about the next early release from school the night before" and it'll dig up the info from your emails and then create the reminder.

               1. mort96 · 1790019190 · focus · HN ↗

                  And people really trust the bot to do that stuff for them? They risk letting down their kid by not being there to pick them up just to save half a minute of finding the right email? That sounds crazy to me, creating a reminder isn't exactly hard

                  1. blauditore · 1790020369 · focus · HN ↗

                     That's exactly what big tech executives and AI bros don't get: It would be useful to use AI for the grudgy but verifiable sub-steps of such a task, e.g. have it help with the email search, and have it suggest a reminder. Or even better, suggest creating a reminder when receiving/reading the email. But leave the user in control, and provide evidence and transparency. Instead, many companies put their bets on the long-shot, do-it-all assistent AI, but technology is just not there yet, or maybe never will even.

                     1. mort96 · 1790021075 · focus · HN ↗

                        I could definitely imagine using a system where I could type in Spotlight "that message about early release from school", hit enter, and have the e-mail or SMS or Signal message or whatever show up in front of me. Boring, non-sexy "better search" style "AI" which is actually useful but doesn't appeal to investors.

                        1. wat10000 · 1790028280 · focus · HN ↗

                           We have that now. The "remind me" part is entirely optional.

                           1. mort96 · 1790029016 · focus · HN ↗

                              I just tried, without disabling anything in Golden Gate. It did an iCloud Drive search. It doesn't seem to be working very well.

                              1. EricE · 1790031155 · focus · HN ↗

                                 Did you go into Siri and join the waitlist for Apple Intelligence?

                                 If not, you’re still using spotlight so the behavior is 100% expected.

                                 Yes, Apple could do a better job making it more obvious but then again Apple Intelligence is Beta so I can see why they require a positive action right now to enable it.

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