For years, Apple has been known as the latecomer but bestcomer. They were almost always last to adopt new advancements in tech but would implement in a magical way as to be forgiven for coming to the party late.
It appears the same is not ringing true with Apple Intelligence, their AI meant to rival Gemini integration on Android or even third party stuff like ChatGPT.
We talked about Apple Intelligence’s notification summarization feature and how it hilariously summarized some guy’s break up text to “No longer in a relationship; wants belongings from the apartment.”
It turns out it’s just bad at text message summaries. It’s decent at emails but when it’s casual chat, it struggles.
An Atlantic reporter got a summary that said “Orbituary shared: Name Surname”. They thought that guy had died when in fact, the guy was telling them that a relative of theirs had died.
Other examples of unintentionally funny summaries included:
- The one in the pic about parents running over toddlers.
- “Orbituary shared: Namey McNameface.” Made it seem like Namey was dead when he was sharing that a relative of his had died.
- “Multiple people at you front yard.” Made it seem like a riot was about to happen in someone’s yard when it was summarising doorbell alerts from different times.
- “Package 8 stops away, delivered, and will be delivered tomorrow.” Try and make sense of that package status summary.
- “Multiple likes and flirtatious comments.” Okay, that one would be cool to see for my Instagram notifications.
Some have been blunt and are saying Apple Intelligence summaries are terrible. When you consider more serious blunders like the one below, you can understand why.
“Georgia governor dead from Hurricane Helene.” Said the summary when in fact, the governor had said 11 people had died in his state after Hurricane Helene.
It might be wise to go back to the drawing board on this one. Notification summaries are cool as a concept, and in some cases are probably convenient, but Apple’s current product kinda sucks
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