I hate AI. Speak to me, Apple

Macworld The problem with tech trends is you can’t easily tell in the moment which ones are going to have a lasting impact. In retrospect it seems obvious that 3D printers were going to upend multiple industries and 3D TVs just… weren’t. But both, rather inexplicably in the latter case, were hailed as the future by legions of impassioned evangelists. If we drew up a scale of long-term relevance, with MP3s at one end and NFTs at the other, where would AI sit? Bearing in mind the caveats above, I suspect it would be pretty close to the MP3 end. It’s likely to be extremely relevant in the long term. It’s just that many of the things it changes about our world will be, well, horrifyingly negative. Personally, in fact, I think AI pretty much sucks. To be clear, it doesn’t suck in absolutely every application. There are plenty of things AI can do efficiently and usefully, from medical diagnostics to meeting transcriptions. It’s worth noting that in almost all suc