Apple may be the only tech company getting AI right, actually
CNN
Apple Intelligence isn’t ready for prime time.
Apple’s big developer summit is a Silicon Valley institution. The company has been hosting it every year since 1983, and in more recent years the events have become a fixture of the tech hype machine — a chance for Apple to show off its latest software to investors and the folks who build apps for those products. Look, they can’t all be bangers. The Worldwide Developers Conference comes around every 12 months, like the Super Bowl or the Oscars. And sometimes it feels like an Important Cultural Moment. Other times it feels like we’re just going through the paces and putting on a little show for the fans. This year’s WWDC was more the latter. (But it was far from, like, a “‘Crash’ beats ‘Brokeback Mountain’”-level disaster.) The buzziest elements seemed totally fine. Groundbreaking? No. But cute and user-friendly in all the ways we expect from Apple. Design nerds are twittering about “Liquid Glass,” iOS’s gloopy visual update, but that’s about as controversial as this WWDC got. (TL;DR, Liquid Glass is like the T-1000 from “Terminator II” — it’s all shapeshifty and, well, gloopy, compared with the earlier, more rigid design language. If transparent gradients rile you up, maybe it was a spicier WWDC from your vantage point.) Of course, Apple’s investors wanted a bit more pizazz. And in particular, they wanted to see Apple make more progress on the souped-up Siri the company promised at last year’s WWDC.
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