u can schedule when your texts arrive. Again, Steve Jobs not impressed. It can also record phone calls, but it tells the person they're being recorded. So these are very small things. But then I found out it also has a suite of AI stuff it can do. So I went from, huh, I'm glad I sold my Apple stock because it looks like there's nothing here, all the way to, oh boy, do I want to upgrade my phone badly.

So here's what I think I understand about the Apple AI announcement. So there will be two forms, and this will be the thing everybody gets wrong. And I might have it wrong too. But I believe there's two separate AIs. One of them is on the phone and it lives on the phone and it doesn't have to go to the cloud to do things. And it's basically like a better Siri that can do more things than Siri could. But more importantly, it can understand you for the first time.

Do you know how many times it takes you to tell your phone, just tell me what the weather is or what time it is? Takes like three tries. But if you use AI, it pretty much understands everything every time. So an upgrade to Siri just that it would understand what you're saying for the first time would be amazing.

But I was looking at a list by Zain Kahn who tells us all the things the new phone will do. Listen to just some of them. Oh, just to complete the picture, so there'll be a local AI that's called Apple Intelligence. That part isn't going to be talking to anything, they say. So you wouldn't have to worry about privacy or anything because it just stays on your phone, they say. Right? I'm not warranting that any of this is true. I'm just saying that's my understanding.

But on top of that, if you were to ask the phone for some information that wasn't on the phone, such as go find out something from the internet, it would activate ChatGPT. So ChatGPT is like an app that works when called on, versus the more integrated into the OS part, which is Apple's own AI.

Now, when you hear that, do you say to yourself, well, that sounds safe. There's no way they're going to get my private information that way. Well, when you put AI in the mix, you really don't know what it can get or what it's doing or what it's keeping or what it's sending back at headquarters at Microsoft. You really don't know.

So Elon Musk had said that if his current understanding of what Apple's doing is true, that he would ban its use on X and ban it within his companies because it'd be too dangerous for your privacy.

Now, I think the way this is going to come out is that Apple's going to make a case for why your concerns are overblown. But people aren't going to believe it. You know, everything has a credibility problem now. So even if they make a really good case that they've done everything they can to protect your privacy, as long as AI is part of the mix, it just feels like the AI can figure out a way around whatever rails they put on it. So that might be an irrational concern, but certainly people would have it.

But listen to all the things they can do. This is from Zain Kahn on X. All right, so you can ask it things. It'll go to ChatGPT. But you can also ask it questions about your documents, and you can describe things without knowing the name. So you can talk to your phone and you can say stuff like, show me the photo, the one I took in Hawaii that was by the tree. It'll just pop up. So you just talk to your phone and it can find stuff and do things like a person could if a person had all knowledge about what was in your phone.

It can create images and text just on command. It can answer questions about all your files. It can tell you what your phone can and cannot do. You can ask it for things like, show me the document I sent to Joshua last week, which is a real thing. I actually wanted to do that yesterday. So yesterday I was like, God, I wish I could remember the name of that document I sent to Joshua. All I had to do was say, what's the name of that document I sent to Joshua? Show me that. And it would just show it to me.

You can play a podcast your friend recommended. It can find photos with people in it. Well, you could kind of do that before. It can autofill forms from your library. So you can say stuff like, look at my driver's license in the photos and take the data from my driver's license and fill out this form. Can actually do that. On the other hand, it means that your driver's license information is on your phone. And do you feel comfortable with that?

All right, it can proofread things. It can clean up IMs. It can change images. So you can say, show me the photograph of me standing with my ex, but get rid of my ex, and it'll do it. This is crazy, crazy stuff.

All right, what else is it going to do? It can generate emojis that didn't exist. So you can say, give me an emoji that's a person spitting or something. I guess you can just make it up.

But nobody yet has figured out the calamity that this is going to cause. This is sort of an end-of-civilization technology. And I haven't heard anybody say why. You ready? It's going to make everybody talk to their phone. Because I believe you can use all these features by texting it, you know, just typing in what you wanted to, like find me the photo or whatever. You could just type it in. But people aren't going to. If you can talk to it and it understands you perfectly, you're not going to type anything. Why would you?

Everybody's going to be talking to their phone. Everybody. The other day I was taking a walk in the park with Snickers, and there aren't too many people who were in that same park at the same time. You know, maybe three in the whole park. But when they got near me, I became very conscious that I happened to be having a conversation with ChatGPT. I was working something out with the AI. And I thought to myself, oh, I don't want to be talking out loud to my phone, you know, like a phone call when somebody's just trying to take a nice walk in the park. So I was trying to whisper to it. It's like, hey, hey man, this is what I want. And I was completely aware that, you know, I might be on the more polite side of the spectrum. At least I try to be. But I'm rare.

Most people are just going to have a flat-out conversation with their phone everywhere they are. They're going to be sitting in restaurants talking to their phone. Every public place will be people talking to their phone everywhere. Now, I don't think anybody mentioned that that's like literally an end-of-civilization problem. You wouldn't be able to go anywhere without hearing it. We're talking locust-all-the-time problem. It would be like the cicadas were all year, every year, everywhere. It would just be audio pollution like you can't believe.

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