Apple's Plan for AI Dominance Rests on Fixing Its Much-Maligned Chatbot
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I view and use computers as tools. They (mostly) do what I command.
That's because I am by nature a problem solver, and so are others. In fact, if knowledge consists of understanding a particular domain, and wisdom consists of applying knowledge across different domains, creativity of a sort, one of them being that unknown called the future then "button pusher" answers kill my ability to deal with future situations which are not recorded in "The Book of Common Knowledge" (a SNL reference).
When "computers" wrestle control of the situation and solve everything, then, as someone said in the early 20th century "Everything that can be invented has already been invented" [1] then there's now no need for computers at all, since "Every problem can be solved by a chatbot" and no need for creative (genius) things like the famous "Wordless Workshop" that ran in Popular Science and Family Handyman magazines.
Just answer machines. No need to learn anything, nor to create.
Creativity and genius move us forward. That's why we have Hacker News as opposed to those "answer forums"
Well, I have a clumsily made kitchen drawer to repair. Some non-genius decided to shoot wire nails through the end of a thin piece of wood. I won't be asking the chatbot for solutions --- expecting it to find a source of replacement drawers (and by the way, we the machine get a commission on all sales).
It seems to me that when you are competing with a world of "answer-bots" you are out of the computer business and just trying to keep up with the hype machine.
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[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/apple-s-plan-for-a...
[1] Charles H. Duell (Commissioner of U.S. Office of Patents), urging President William McKinley to abolish his office, 1899 [2]
[2] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/06/23/invented/, also