Manton and Daniel talk about the upcoming Apple special event where new iPhones are expected to be announced. They talk about their respective likelihoods of buying one, and remark on the diminishing importance of smallness in a phone’s physical design. They discuss the nascent Apple Intelligence features in macOS and iOS betas, the general competitive state of AI services, and the virtue of being able to easily switch from one hosted AI services provider to another.
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Links:
- Apple Event – Watch live at 10 a.m. Pacific Time.
- What to Expect – The Verge’s rundown of anticipated announcements.
- Apple Intelligence – Apple’s product marketing page for Apple Intelligence.
- Priority Phishing Email – Cabel Sasser shares his experience with Apple’s AI misclassifying a scam email.
- Claude – ChatGPT competitor from Anthropic.
- Prompt Engineering – OpenAI documentation on improving the effectiveness of AI prompts.
- Apple’s Pre-Prompts – MacRumors reports on the uncovering of OS-bundled prompts in Apple’s apps.
- Claude’s Pre-Prompts – Documentation from Anthropic about the specific prompts they preload their AI products with.
- Llama 3 – Open-source LLM software from Meta.
- xAI Rush in Memphis – Manton’s post about Elon Musk’s huge AI server center in Tennessee.
