Apple’s AI feature set will expand to include localized English in the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand in December, with India and Singapore joining the mix next year.
Miraz Jordan @pratik I'm interested to learn a whole lot more about AI. Every time I turn on the radio or whatever, someone's talking about it. It looks like it's here to stay so I want to know more. I'm also interested to learn how it might be used by us regular folks. Decades ago I taught people that search engines existed and how to use them. Perhaps there will be a role for teaching ordinary folks how to get something valuable from AI…
Miraz Jordan @pratik Since your question I've been thinking more. 😁 For us ordinary folks AI is being done to us, and increasingly so. I've always been an educator. It's in my blood to understand stuff and then to help others understand it too. It's empowering to know stuff. I'm revolutionary in that way — I want people to have the tools and resources to understand stuff and make their own decisions. I think we're at that point with AI that we deserve to understand what's being done to us and to grasp how we can use AI ourselves to achieve our own ends.
Notes here’s one way I’m using it personally. I have a specific health issue which isn’t particularly common and which doctors in general don’t seem to have a lot of interest or expertise in. So, I try and keep an eye on any research that gets published. I’ve experimented with creating an expert GPT and uploading research and same as a Claude project. The end result is that I can ask much better questions when I meet with a doc and ask for specific tests that had never been suggested. It’s been very helpful. Also, recently, I’ve been uploading research to GoogleNotebook LM and generating an audio podcast discussion and this is just completely mind blowing.
Miraz Jordan @wfm Thank you. That's super interesting and helpful. I'm at the earliest stages of thinking about offering a community education class on AI for ordinary folks. It's still just the merest hint of the seed of an idea.