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If this video is to believed, this is the result of internal Apple politics between the software engineering folks, and the AI folks, with the software engineering folks "winning"

https://youtu.be/50XKNKGPWs8?si=nznI4ydFBT5pXfNa

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If that’s true it would be quite interesting, as the AI folks are winning almost everywhere else in the software industry, notably at Google.

I can believe that this is a case of the Software Engineering team being effective in a way that the AI/ML team wasn't. Apple's internal culture is notoriously closed and secretive, not the best way to approach cutting-edge AI research, especially when it wasn't their core competency in the first place.

But mainly I wanted to share that video because Craig Federighi calling the AI/ML team "AI/MLess" is one heck of a burn

Apple AI team launched Apple Intelligence before it was fully baked. That's a no-no by Apple standards.

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