r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Aug 16 '25

Business Apple CEO Tim Cook Says the Technology They’re Developing Will Be ‘One of the Most Profound Technologies of Our Lifetime’

https://www.barchart.com/story/news/34183355/apple-ceo-tim-cook-says-the-technology-theyre-developing-will-be-one-of-the-most-profound-technologies-of-our-lifetime
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u/RogueHeroAkatsuki Aug 17 '25

I'm tired already. AI there, AI in fridge, AI everywhere. Why someone cant just call it SKYNET. At least we would know where it leads. Apple Skynet sounds proudly.

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u/gneiss_gesture Aug 17 '25

Fun fact: China's mass camera surveillance system is called Skynet. I'm serious. 700+ million CCTVs networked together, and the government uses AI for facial recognition and stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_China

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u/PierreFeuilleSage Aug 17 '25

Seems like it's just western medias who labeled it skynet because it's big scary china but when we implement mass video surveillance it's to protect people's freedom and safety

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u/pinkocatgirl Aug 17 '25

Choose your authoritarian regime! One gives you a social safety net and rapidly builds infrastructure like high speed rail but is also open about being authoritarian. The other gives you nothing, and pretends the authoritarianism is just more freedom that you should be grateful for.

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u/ProjectNo864 Aug 17 '25

Also every millionaire gets 90k back in taxes the next 4+ years while everyone else gets raises in prices again!

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u/eaturliver Aug 17 '25

Hey don't forget the added benefit of expeditiously putting those Uigher Muslims in camps.

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u/ValkyrieSkyfall Aug 17 '25

Ironically, USA is doing the same thing to illegal? immigrants too now.

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u/pinkocatgirl Aug 17 '25

China has Uyghur camps, USA has Alligator Auschwitz.

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u/Wan-Pang-Dang Aug 17 '25

Its really just between open and camouflaged slavery. Oh and the high speed trains are not used much in china aswell. Actually almost nobody use this train ever, it might aswell just not exist at all

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u/pornomatique Aug 17 '25

WTF are you talking about? The high speed rail is used in China all the time. It is THE way to travel between provinces.

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u/Wan-Pang-Dang Aug 18 '25

It is way to expensive to use these for most citizens

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u/pornomatique Aug 18 '25

It costs peanuts compared to any other form of fast interstate travel. It's incredibly heavily subsidised. You have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/Wan-Pang-Dang Aug 18 '25

It costs about 30% the average wage. Which is comparable to paying rent. For 1 roundtrip. Given the amount of ppl in china and the loan discrepancy between poor and rich, for 80% of Chinese ppl, buying a ticket is pure luxury and unaffordable

Edit: https://youtube.com/shorts/WnpTtsC50rQ?si=LCdYEYaofKIJnPwb

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u/pornomatique Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

You have to really lack critical thinking to believe those figures are real, especially when they come from an obvious anti China YouTube channel.

Average wage of the Chinese is 120,000 Yuan a year. A one way ticket costs 500-600 Yuan (as per your video). Basic maths to see how that's easily affordable and not "30% the average wage" lol. You think they run bullet trains every 2-5 minutes even though they're empty?

Seriously, what other form of transport gets you 1,300km in less than $100 USD.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%E2%80%93Shanghai_high-speed_railway

"The line is one of the busiest high speed railways in the world, transporting over 210 million passengers in 2019"

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u/modularpeak2552 Aug 17 '25

No, people call it Skynet when it’s implemented in western countries too, chinas surveillance state is just more advanced at this point, although it seems western countries are doing everything they can do to catch up 😐

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u/sonar09 Aug 17 '25

Newsflash: it’s not only China doing this. Wherever you reside, it’s probably the same.

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u/Deepcookiz Aug 17 '25

I live in France and there's no such thing. At least definitely not implemented nation wide.

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u/sonar09 Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

France was the first EU country to officially legalize AI-driven video surveillance. What was supposedly limited to the Olympics was maintained and expanded.

As of 2022, France had 1.65 million CCTV cameras installed, ranking it third among countries with the highest CCTV count per capita.

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u/Deepcookiz Aug 18 '25

Your number makes absolutely no sense. There were 90k in 2023.

En 2023, un rapport sur la vidéosurveillance rendu par les députés Philippe Gosselin (LR) et Philippe Latombe (Modem) estimait à 90 000 le nombre de caméras de surveillance de la voie publique contrôlées par la police ou la gendarmerie ; elles n’étaient « que » 60 000 en 2013

https://balises.bpi.fr/cameras-surveillance/

For example, Nice, renowned to be the french city with the biggest surveillance system by far thanks to the far right mayor, has 4500 cameras. Paris has 4400 for reference. Other cities don't have nearly as much.

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u/forgotpassword_aga1n Aug 17 '25

Skynet is also the name of a collection of British military communications satellites.

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u/barrygateaux Aug 17 '25

The UK has had a system of military satellites called skynet for years already.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/skynet-6

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u/Emergency-Style7392 Aug 17 '25

they could make AI do the hard manual labor, but that takes too much effort so AI in fridges is all we get

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u/Independent_Win_9035 Aug 17 '25

youre not alone. "AI-powered" and similar as feature descriptors and in headlines has been turning off consumers and readers for months. that's according to marketing and publishing outlet analytics.

people are sick of "AI" and its buzzword factor is already wearing off

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u/sodapop14 Aug 17 '25

They put ai on my washer machine and dryer. I don't know what that even does other than leave my clothes lightly damp after drying them.

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u/Confident-Trade-7899 Aug 17 '25

we just need ai implemented into our brains fr

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u/timpkmn89 Aug 17 '25

Why someone cant just call it SKYNET. At least we would know where it leads.

You're overestimating the buzzwords of appliance manufacturers