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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: June twenty twenty four, that is when Apple initially launched AI,

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Speaker 2: its version of AI, or as they called it, Apple Intelligence,

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Speaker 2: Get it AI, Apple Intelligence. It's fair to say that

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Speaker 2: since Apple Intelligence was launched, many Apple users and people

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Speaker 2: in the Apple sphere have been pretty underwhelmed with what

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Speaker 2: Apple Intelligence has actually provided our textbook. Paul Steadhouse is

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Speaker 2: here with details this morning on what was supposed to

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Speaker 2: be the centerpiece of Apple Intelligence, a smart serie, a

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Speaker 2: smart personal assistance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, June twenty twenty four. It's it's quite a long

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Speaker 3: time ago, really, isn't it. Yeah? And I think it's

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Speaker 3: Apple is so good at keeping all of their secrets

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Speaker 3: and kind of inner politics and inner workings out of

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Speaker 3: the media and staying quite secret. And I think it

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Speaker 3: says a lot that it's leaking out to Bloomberg. Orter

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Speaker 3: at Bloomberg seems to have just a lot of these

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Speaker 3: scoops about just how dire it is. I mean, that's

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Speaker 3: why we're talking about it right. Bloomberg reported it out

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Speaker 3: and they're now saying they were targeting March internally to

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Speaker 3: be the launch of the new SII again was supposed

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Speaker 3: to be June twenty twenty four. They're now thinking they're

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Speaker 3: going to have to slow roll this even more so.

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Speaker 3: They're thinking that it may not start until May, and

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Speaker 3: even then may may just be a small taster of

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Speaker 3: what you get, and it may not be until iOS

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Speaker 3: twenty seven comes out in September that actually the things

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Speaker 3: that they talked about in June twenty twenty four will

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Speaker 3: actually be available, and thus saying that some of the

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Speaker 3: issues are apparently that Siri doesn't always process queries so

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Speaker 3: just stops or doesn't listen, or can just take way

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Speaker 3: too long. You know what Apple's like. Apple wants the

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Speaker 3: experience to be fantastic, so that may be why thus

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Speaker 3: slow rolling some of this. You know, I guess nothing

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Speaker 3: is better than an experience that's terrible. They probably learned

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Speaker 3: that from Apple Maps back a decade ago. Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: that you know that that thing they sold on stage,

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Speaker 3: I think you were really excited about, and I was

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Speaker 3: really excited about where Siri had access to your personal

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Speaker 3: data and you could say when's mum's flight getting in,

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Speaker 3: and Suri was smart enough to know who your mum is,

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Speaker 3: and that she was on a flight, and that she

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Speaker 3: sent you an email with the itinerary and could look

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Speaker 3: up the itinerary dreamland sounds incredible. Well, that part of

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Speaker 3: Apple intelligence that one's the most likely to slip, which

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Speaker 3: I guess is no surprise. Sad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's frustrating. I mean, I it's remarkable to me

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Speaker 2: like that both how far we've come and how are

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Speaker 2: we still have to go. When you look at the

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Speaker 2: kind of consumer side artificial intelligence, right like they using

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Speaker 2: the you know, the likes of Chat, GBT and the

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Speaker 2: other large language models, whether it's Gemini or whatever else,

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Speaker 2: it can be an incredible experience. But then you worp

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Speaker 2: out your incredibly smart iPhone with more computer power, you know,

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Speaker 2: with more computing power than you know that than than

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Speaker 2: the space the spaceships that went to the moon in

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Speaker 2: the day, and yet it is incapable of doing the

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Speaker 2: most basic things. Sometimes it can just be so frustrated.

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Speaker 3: Well, but that's because and I think that plays into right,

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Speaker 3: this idea that you know, when you first ask one

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Speaker 3: of those lms to do something, especially something creative and

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Speaker 3: completely brand new, write me a poem about X, it's

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Speaker 3: incredible because you're like, oh, man, it pulled that out

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Speaker 3: of nowhere, and it did. I think the biggest thing

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Speaker 3: is when you're working with AI, when you start putting

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Speaker 3: real data that you actually know about and you know

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Speaker 3: the answers to into AI, is where I start to

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Speaker 3: see it really breaking down. And that when then you

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Speaker 3: start to go to the next layer, which is okay,

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Speaker 3: now you're going to look at my really personal information.

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Speaker 3: That's when it breaks down even further because does it

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Speaker 3: even know who your mum is? You may not even

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Speaker 3: be able to figure that out, you know, has it

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Speaker 3: got enough context?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. Speaking of AI, Anthropic, which was one

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Speaker 2: of the big AI giants, has raised a fresh round

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Speaker 2: of funding, which means its value has more than doubled

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Speaker 2: since September.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so can you just just put the into perspective? Right?

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Speaker 3: Apple Intelligence was supposed to launch in June twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 3: and somehow Anthropic has managed to double the value of

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Speaker 3: its company multiple times over. Basically within that time, they

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Speaker 3: got an additional thirty billion dollars in cash, which takes

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Speaker 3: their post money valuation to three hundred and eighty billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: So it is the second largest private tech financing round.

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Speaker 3: Second only two. You guessed it. Open ai just staggering numbers.

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Speaker 3: And Jack, we talked a little bit about the AI

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Speaker 3: wars last week. When it comes to coding boy, the

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Speaker 3: AI war heaten up. It took to the super Bowl stage.

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Speaker 3: Anthropic behind Claude put out a Super Bowl ad and

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Speaker 3: they mocked Chat GPT for having ads, and then and

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Speaker 3: Chat GPT came back this week and said, well, you're

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Speaker 3: being elitist because open ai is used by more people

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Speaker 3: and the ads allow access to everyone. So it's heating up.

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Speaker 3: It's getting feisty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be fascinating to watch. Thanks Paul.

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Speaker 2: That's how Ticksbook Paul Steenhouse.

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