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Apple's Preview is my favourite. It uses AI to allow you to copy text from images. And that's it.


This is my go to example of “ai features that are actually useful to me”. Ubiquitous OCR, and ubiquitous semantic search in photos.

Not a chat bot. Not an “ask ai” button, just those things.


That's not "AI" in the sense of LLMs, which is what the recent trend in AI complaints is about.




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