My head canon is that the thing that preemptively pops the bubble is Apple coming out and saying, very publicly, that AI is a dead end, and they are dropping it completely (no more half assed implicit promises).

And not just that, they come out with an iPhone that has _no_ camera as an attempt to really distance themselves from all the negative press tech (software and internet in particular) has at the moment.

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ladberg 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Do you know a single person who'd buy an iPhone without a camera? I don't

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GalaxyNova 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's what they used to say about mobile phones with no keyboards :))

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l9o 3 days ago | parent [-]

Keyboards were replaced with a touch screen alternative that effectively does the same job though. What is the alternative to a camera? Cameras are way too useful on a mobile device for anyone to even consider dropping them IMO.

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xwolfi 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

He's obviously jesting

	▲	l9o 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh. Woooosh. Thanks for still being nice about it (-:

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efskap 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

AI image generators

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krackers 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe not as an iphone, but they could drop the camera and cellular and make an ipod touch.

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NemoNobody 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That would require people that know about AI to actually choose to cancel it - which nobody that actually knows what AI can do, would ever actually do.

The Apple engineers, with their top level unfettered access to the best Apple AI - they'll convince shareholders to fund it forever, even if normal people never catch on.

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swyx 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Apple at AI is a dead end because Apple sucks at AI, not because its anything about AI