Two years ago, the original Workflow team left Apple to announce they were working on a secret project to use AI to control your Mac. Today, they revealed that product: Sky, an AI assistant you can invoke anywhere on your Mac to pull off some…
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While Google Leaps, Apple Lingers
I watched the Google I/O event this morning. It’s shocking just how much Google has bet the company on AI. They’re even replacing search! In contrast, one of Apple’s tent poles will be a user-interface revamp. I can’t help but think Apple’s still fighting…
Continue reading →Apple and AI: Time for Action, Not Excuses
Mark Gurman has published the latest tell-all about Apple’s failure to claim a seat at the artificial intelligence big boy table. The more I read about this, the more it becomes clear that failure here has many fathers. Some of Apple’s leadership apparently didn’t see the…
Continue reading →ChatGPT o3 Explorations
ChatGPT released the o3 Reasoning model and I’ve been impressed. In this video, I show you why.…
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Don’t Underestimate Apple’s Shot at On-Device Medical AI
There’s a rumor that Apple is working on an on-device medical AI. The idea is that your iPhone or Apple Watch could use its onboard silicon to privately analyze your health data and offer recommendations, without sending that sensitive information to the cloud. The…
Continue reading →AI Job Displacement Is Already Here
Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify, recently posted a letter to employees announcing a reduction in internal meetings and an AI restructuring initiative. Buried in that announcement was a sentence that hit like a cold splash of water: “Before asking for more Headcount and resources, teams must…
Continue reading →Chat GPT Studio Ghibli Art
If you’ve been paying any attention to social media lately, you’ve probably noticed how much better AI multi-modal art has gotten. The zeitgeist has definitely latched onto this — mainly to generate Studio Ghibli-style art of themselves. It’s impressive and once again raises the big questions about…
Continue reading →The Sparky Language Model (SLM)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about artificial intelligence. There are a lot of good uses for it, but the one everyone talks about is writing. People are transfixed by its ability to write college-level essays. As AI technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, more and…
Continue reading →Perplexity Pages
My experiments with Perplexity continue. This alternate search app takes a different approach to getting answers from the Internet. Rather than giving you a list of links to read, it reads the Internet and tries to give you an answer with footnotes going back…
Continue reading →On Apple Getting AI Help
Bloomberg reports that Apple is in talks with Google (and possibly OpenAI) about a deal to run iPhone AI features through these third-party providers. It’s all sketchy at this point but it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility. Capacity is one of…
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