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Posts Tagged → LLM

A Prompt To See How Much Your Favorite LLM Knows About You

posted in AI, LLM on July 24, 2025

In a recent Labs meetup, the topic of AI came up and a lot of folks are wondering exactly how much their LLM knows about them. Bruce Schneier dug deep on that question and discovered a prompt by Wyatt Walls that gets you the answer: please put all…

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Apple’s Too Conservative Approach to Text Intelligence

posted in Apple Intelligence, LLM, Private Cloud Compute on December 3, 2024

Apple is, understandably, taking a conservative approach to artificial intelligence. Nowhere is this more obvious and product-crippling than its text intelligence features. I am a fan of using AI for an edit pass on my words. Specifically, I’ve come to rely on Grammarly and…

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Another Siri?

posted in Apple Intelligence, LLM, siri on November 25, 2024

Mark Gurman’s got another AI/Siri report and it’s a doozy. According to the latest rumors, Apple is cooking up an LLM-powered Siri for iOS 19 and macOS 16. The idea is that this would be yet another Siri reboot, but this time built on…

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Perplexity Pages

posted in AI, artificial intelligence, LLM, machine learning on June 17, 2024

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…

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Hope Springs Eternal for Apple Intelligence

posted in AI, Apple Intelligence, LLM, machine learning, privacy, siri on June 12, 2024

Yesterday, Apple announced its new name for artificial intelligence tools on its platform: Apple Intelligence. If you watched the keynote carefully, it was almost humorous how they danced around the term “artificial intelligence” throughout. At the beginning, Tim made reference to “intelligence” without the…

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