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Claims from this post (14)
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Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“Despite this ostensibly being Apple’s big AI play, CEO Tim Cook and SVP of Engineering, Craig Federighi spent far more time explaining how much Apple loved privacy, before clunkily launching into a series of product updates that appear to both sound useful and heartily suggest that Apple is intentionally trying to distance itself from the AI bubble.”
Our reading: Apple's WWDC 2024 updates suggest Apple is intentionally trying to distance itself from the AI bubble.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“Apple likely hopes that its privacy-focused media blitz will hide the fact that it’s ripping off everybody’s work just like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic”
Our reading: Apple is ripping off everybody's work, just like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, and likely hopes its privacy-focused media blitz will hide that fact.
No horizon
Scope: just like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“These are not world-changing integrations, but useful ones”
Our reading: Apple's AI integrations are not world-changing, but they are useful.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“While it remains to be seen exactly how often you’ll be prompted to use it, ChatGPT’s addition to Apple products feels far more like something cooked up to please Wall Street rather than address a specific need”
Our reading: ChatGPT's addition to Apple products feels far more like something cooked up to please Wall Street than something meant to address a specific need.
No horizon
Qualifier: feels far more like
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“If Apple iced out OpenAI or Anthropic, they could conceivably complain to the European Commission, who might rule in favor of them and order Apple to start supporting their models, in addition to levying a huge multi-billion Euro fine.”
Our reading: If Apple excluded OpenAI or Anthropic, the European Commission might order Apple to support their models and fine it billions of euros.
No horizon
Only if: if Apple iced out OpenAI or Anthropic
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“This deal is equal parts perilous and hilarious, and something that could genuinely end up hurting OpenAI, all while insulating Apple.”
Our reading: The Apple-OpenAI deal could end up hurting OpenAI while insulating Apple.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“especially as I imagine most users will only ask it the occasional question and find no reason to opt for a $20-a-month subscription.”
Our reading: He imagines that most users of ChatGPT on Apple devices will only ask it the occasional question and will find no reason to opt for a $20-a-month subscription.
No horizon
Qualifier: I imagine
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“I’d also speculate that Apple likely requires some sort of Service Level Agreement for its partners — meaning that OpenAI has to dedicate resources to maintain uptime for Apple devices, which will in turn be incredibly expensive to maintain, burning money with every query on a product that Apple will offer only when Apple’s services can’t do the job.”
Our reading: He speculates that Apple likely requires some sort of Service Level Agreement for its partners, meaning OpenAI has to dedicate resources to keep Apple devices served, which will be incredibly expensive and will burn money on every query for a product Apple offers only when its own services can't do the job.
No horizon
Qualifier: I'd also speculate
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“While Sam Altman is regularly described as a tier-one operator and a superior intellect, this is one of the single-worst deals I’ve seen in my life, one that shows that while it might have domain over the startup world, OpenAI lacks any real leverage.”
Our reading: OpenAI's deal with Apple is one of the single-worst deals he has seen in his life, and it shows that OpenAI, while it might have domain over the startup world, lacks any real leverage.
No horizon
Scope: one of the single-worst deals I've seen in my life
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“Apple has decided that ChatGPT is a feature, not a product, and one that isn’t trustworthy or useful enough to run without a user’s permission, or even pay for.”
Our reading: Apple has decided that ChatGPT is a feature, not a product, and one that isn't trustworthy or useful enough to run without a user's permission, or even to pay for.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“This was a humiliating moment for the generative AI movement, and especially so for OpenAI, a company that desperately needs good news at a time when the world has become deeply suspicious of its product and its CEO.”
Our reading: This year's WWDC was a humiliating moment for the generative AI movement, and especially for OpenAI, a company that desperately needs good news at a time when the world has become deeply suspicious of its product and its CEO.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“Apple can (and likely will) dump ChatGPT at a moment’s notice, replacing it with another generative AI, or ripping the feature out entirely thanks to the fact it introduced it as a feature at the end of a presentation of better, more useful features.”
Our reading: Apple can, and likely will, dump ChatGPT at a moment's notice, either replacing it with another generative AI or ripping the feature out entirely, because it introduced ChatGPT as a feature at the end of a presentation of better, more useful features.
No horizon
Qualifier: (and likely will)
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“While this might not kill OpenAI immediately, it’s a brutal moment that proves how little the world actually cares about ChatGPT.”
Our reading: Although it might not kill OpenAI immediately, the Apple deal is a brutal moment that proves how little the world actually cares about ChatGPT.
No horizon
Qualifier: while this might not kill OpenAI immediately
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“It’s also a genuinely dangerous deal for OpenAI, and shows that while Sam Altman might be capable of swindling Silicon Valley startups, he doesn’t have what it takes to bend Apple to his will.”
Our reading: The Apple deal is a genuinely dangerous deal for OpenAI, and it shows that while Sam Altman might be capable of swindling Silicon Valley startups, he doesn't have what it takes to bend Apple to his will.
No horizon
Qualifier: while Sam Altman might be capable of swindling Silicon Valley startups