I don’t think anyone who would be ready to completely do a 180 with the Catholic Church will be the pope soon (or ever, given how the system works). He has, however, nudged that ship in the right direction and with what he has done and with his appointees. Let’s just hope it continues with whoever replaces him.
I prefer physical invites too, but in the context of this, physical printing sounds like a lot of unnecessary overhead and extra work that will yield little to no significant added value on the side of Apple.
You are drowning in hypotheticals muddied by your own worldview. I can also say that there are 8 billion people on Earth. For most of them, green isn’t in their top 5 favorite colors.
As an engineer working in the field who has designed both cloud algorithms and on-firmware algorithms, when marketing uses AI, it tends to just be training/data fitting. At best, the most complicated ones tend to be random forests and if any use neural networks, it’s usually just overkill.
The answer to your last question is yes, especially when it’s from raw signals.
Tbf, there are applications from devices that do use deep learning methods but from experience they are not practical except on very edge cases.
It probably isn’t cheaper for Kagi per token but I assume most people don’t use up as much as they can, like with most other subscriptions.
I.e. I’ve been an Ultimate subscriber since they launched the plan and I rarely use the assistant feature because I’ve got a subscription to ChatGPT and Claude. I only use it when I want to query Llama, Gemini, or Mistral models which I don’t want to subscribe to or create API keys for.