Mac Power Users

743: The Current AI Moment


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AI is suddenly everywhere, from online services and software to bespoke hardware products. This week, David takes Stephen on a journey to talk about the tools he has found useful, as well as what's not ready for prime time yet.

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    More Power Users: Ad-free episodes with regular bonus segments Submit Feedback Hallucination (artificial intelligence) - Wikipedia Large language model - Wikipedia Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data - The Verge OpenAI Google Gemini Microsoft Copilot Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to pursue holy grail of artificial intelligence - The Verge Perplexity Meta AI Adobe Firefly Generative AI Fill in Photoshop Feels Like Magic – 512 Pixels ChatGPT - Universal Primer ChatGPT - Diagrams ChatGPT - Planty Building Virtual Seneca (using ChatGPT) - MacSparky on YouTube Readwise Spark +AI: your personal email assistant MacWhisper Grammarly Bringing AI to Alfred with Chatfred - Alfred Blog AI - Raycast Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘ai_overlay_tmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders – 512 Pixels Apple unveils the new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip - Apple

    "With the transition to Apple silicon, every Mac is a great platform for AI. M3 includes a faster and more efficient 16-core Neural Engine, along with accelerators in the CPU and GPU to boost on-device machine learning, making MacBook Air the world’s best consumer laptop for AI. Leveraging this incredible AI performance, macOS delivers intelligent features that enhance productivity and creativity, so users can enable powerful camera features, real-time speech-to-text, translation, text predictions, visual understanding, accessibility features, and much more."

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