June 11, 2024
Today, Apple announced Apple Intelligence at the 2024 WWDC conference. In short, Apple is integrating Generative AI capabilities directly into the iPhone coming this fall. The applications include:
- Writing
- Everywhere you write you will have the capability to enhance that writing with AI or summarize long text chains.
- Generate summaries of long e-mails
- Smart replies in e-mail
- Proofread
- Recordings
- Capture audio recordings and create transcripts and summaries
- Personal Context
- It will draw on previous input and usage to make deductions about what is important
- This includes new e-mail capabilities drawing the most important e-mails to the forefront
- Images
- Generate customized emojis
- Clean-up photo images
- Generate images
- Siri
- Ability to speak and type to Siri
- Newly expanded language capabilities
- Historical context – the ability to refer to something you just asked Siri to do
- Screen awareness – ability to know which application you are in and adjust responses accordingly
- Take actions across applications. Tell Siri to take a note and send it as an e-mail.
- ChatGPT
- Integrated into all writing applications and Siri.
- API
- The ability for your favorite applications to tap into these same capabilities.