Foldable iPads, Apple Intelligence blowback, new Apple Music Radio stations
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance react to the recent controversy around AI notification summaries, and how Apple could improve the situation. Also, Benjamin is frustrated with the lack of Apple Music Radio improvements, and the pair discuss the latest rumors about the company’s foldable plans.
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple Intelligence botched a notification summary about Luigi Mangione, and the BBC isn't happy
- Apple Intelligence summary feature should be banned after Luigi Mangione error, says RSF
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- Gurman: New Apple TV and HomePod mini on track for 2025 release, will use Apple networking chip
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- WSJ: iPhone 17 Air to be cheaper than expected; foldable iPhone on track for 2026
- Report: Apple designing all new Magic Mouse, fixing charge port placement
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I think we have our first real Apple intelligence controversy, at least to a certain degree. |
| 0:06.3 | So this popped up in the BBC last week where the summarized notifications feature of Apple intelligence really botched a notification or a trio of notifications from the BBC news app. |
| 0:19.7 | And the summary was summarizing three different stories. |
| 0:22.7 | One about Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of the United Healthcare CEO, another |
| 0:28.2 | about Syria and another about South Korea. |
| 0:31.9 | It correctly summarized the headlines about Syria and South Korea, but the Luigi |
| 0:36.8 | Mangione headline was just summarized as Luigi Mangione shoots himself. |
| 0:42.7 | Obviously, highly, highly inaccurate. |
| 0:45.9 | And the BBC is very upset that its name and logo, its app icon was applied to that notification to make it look legitimate. |
| 0:57.1 | It does have the summary indicator icon, obviously. |
| 0:58.8 | It does, yes. |
| 1:02.0 | And the BBC says it complained to Apple about it, |
| 1:04.3 | and Apple hasn't commented at least publicly. |
| 1:09.8 | The BBC statement was like BBC News is the most trusted news media in the world. |
| 1:29.8 | So again, they're obviously upset that this happened and showed their name and their app icon. The key part of this story that's missing, and not that it excuses the Apple Intelligence, what's clearly a pretty big Apple Intelligence screw up here. Yep. But what's missing is what the first headline was that Apple Intelligence was trying to summarize in this case. |
| 1:40.6 | What was the headline or the notification of the story about Luigi Mangione that led Apple intelligence to summarize it as that he killed himself? |
| 1:43.6 | Yeah, like where did the shooting come from in that summary? |
| 1:49.4 | Where did it all fall down, basically? Yeah. Because even if, even, even though that doesn't necessarily excuse it, it could at least give us some insight into what Apple Intelligence |
| 1:55.2 | thought it was summarizing. Because I don't think the BBC News would clickbait something |
| 1:59.5 | to make people think that he had shot himself. Like, I don't think they would news would clickbait something to make people think that he had shot himself. |
| 2:01.6 | Like, I don't think they would cross that line. |
| 2:03.6 | So it's in either way, I think Apple intelligence was way, way, way off the mark. |
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