177: ‘Surface Curious’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2016
⏱️ 122 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, I'll forgive you for cheating. How are you feeling? You feel better? You're still getting worse |
| 0:03.8 | I now I feel terrible that I invited you on the show. No, no, I'm doing really good |
| 0:07.2 | It's one of those things where I'm one of them. I'm someone who's only really sick at night |
| 0:10.1 | And like late at night like nine o'clock. I'll feel horrible, but you know, for most of the day I'm fine |
| 0:14.3 | So I'm using up the remaining hours of you |
| 0:16.6 | No, this is a lot of fun |
| 0:19.1 | Alright, well we'll try to hurry up. No, not at all |
| 0:25.5 | What do you want to start with? |
| 0:27.9 | Do you want to do the year-and-review stuff? Do you want to... Oh, I think we should probably save that. Let's save that. Okay. Let's do this. Let's talk about |
| 0:34.2 | Topical new stuff that Apple and finally publishing AI. Yeah, there it's that was that was that's you know |
| 0:40.5 | I they said they were going to do it and now they've done it so it's you know in some ways it's |
| 0:45.2 | You know Apple does what they said they were going to do so it's not that big a deal, but it's you know |
| 0:51.4 | It's another step in the new |
| 0:53.8 | Apple the open apple, right? |
| 0:56.8 | Absolutely and what was hilarious to me is that we talked about this on the talk show previously was Google got up |
| 1:03.2 | At I.O. And instead of showing off a lot of the cool stuff that they're doing with AI |
| 1:06.6 | They basically reintroduced sequential inference from Siri from 2010 and everyone just lost their shit and said you know |
| 1:12.8 | Apple's way behind and Apple's been doing this stuff since before Siri and they've been doing all sorts of different machine learning and |
| 1:18.5 | And they just never spoke about it and now they're sort of it's become table stakes and |
| 1:23.1 | Wall Street and everyone is judging you based on your AI performance |
| 1:26.3 | So now they have to get ahead of the story sequential inference is when you do something like |
| 1:30.6 | Hey, well, hey dingus |
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