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Apple CEO John Ternus pressured Apple senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi to “accelerate the company’s road map and move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri,” reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.
Citing anonymous sources, Gurman writes that Ternus is “frustrated by what he sees as a reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors,” and pushed Federighi for changes in a meeting behind closed doors. Federighi, Gurman points out, has been considered an AI skeptic with concerns “about the technology’s privacy, security, societal and employment implications.”
I really enjoy playing with local AI but this constant need to shove it into everything is just getting annoying. It can be useful sometimes but it is often very unnecessary and gimmicky. I noticed the other day the app I use to control my lights had included a AI chat bot for controlling things. I played with it for about 2 minutes and I’ll never touch it again.