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Apple Intelligence Features Coming to iOS 18 Beta Testers This Summer

Yujenisis said:
No, this is a good indication of how a subset of the investor class (e.g day traders and some margin traders), view today’s announcement.

This a moment where I appreciate Apple’s conservatism. When the shallow glitz and glamor of unthinking “AI” LLM’s wear off (Google’s implementation has seen it receive the most criticism from the mainstream press in decades…), Apple will hopefully have a mature answer that can respect user privacy and actually offer accurate and personal solutions. But they squandered their head start.

The bit trying to make the handoff to OpenAI felt like such a decision mired in deep politics within Apple. Apple is ceding a tremendous amount to a third party, a massive compromise for Apple for Cook, but also perhaps a necessary one. This technology is so new and unpredictable they both felt they must include it but also the need to clearly bifurcate it from Apple in a way we have never seen. I expect there were meetings that could have made entire movies behind all of this.

I believe Apple utterly squandered the head start they were given in the acquisition of Siri in 2010. Siri was unique and predated the LLMs we’ve come to love and loathe, but was undeniably the first attempt at a true digital assistant. One wonders what vision saw the potential but failed to make the case that would have put Apple on the forefront here.

Exciting times. I am excited to see what Apple has in store, and don’t doubt for a second their “alliance” with OpenAI is simply one of necessity in the moment.
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They wouldn’t have been conservative, if they actually were on par.
 
TLuc said:
Yeah it's quite obvious this was put together recently. They are at least 1 year behind Google if not 2.
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They have been years behind Google and will continue to be because of their focus on privacy. Until they give that up, Google will do everything Apple does better. I hope they don't give that up though, because I'd prefer my privacy even if it makes Siri dumber in the process.
 
MNTVJunkie said:
They have been years behind Google and will continue to be because of their focus on privacy. Until they give that up, Google will do everything Apple does better. I hope they don't give that up though, because I'd prefer my privacy even if it makes Siri dumber in the process.
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Gotta admit thought the whole will happen within a year is a pretty lame excuse to extend a timeline.
 
Goldfinger said:
The M1 does 11 TOPS, so...
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Could it be down to a combo of both memory bandwidth and TOPS? IIRC an Apple pre print from earlier this year had found a way to do client side processing of large models by streaming model params from flash memory (https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514). Keeping in mind that many of these features would likely rely on chaining multiple models together and it’s entirely likely that the performance just wasnt good enough on older machines.

tbh I doubt it would be that great on an m1 with only 8gb ram, but perhaps that was just enough.
 
I’m happy to have an old phone! My only hope is that is possible to disable this for good. not like the way wifi disabling works nowadays. Only can be disabled for one day and going out of airplane mode enables it again #$&*&&$@#$$&*
 
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I must express my disappointment with Apple's plan to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into it's OSes. Apple seemed to go to great lengths to express its commitment to privacy, only to drop the bombshell that it was going to be moving to use ChatGPT for its enhanced abilities. In the demonstrations shown, it seems to only give you the option of whether or not you wanted to send the request to ChatGPT to do it… or not. I would have liked to have seen the ability to provide the service with Apple's technology instead as an opt-out option. Plus as a parent, I am especially concerned about the sending of data to ChatGPT anonymized or not. I would expect that Apple allows the access to ChatGPT to be disabled and restricted from a parental setting for a child's device and for their own.
 
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My only question is: how big of a bonus is the person who came up with “Apple Intelligence” going to get? I think that is a brilliant “kill shot” as Scott Adams calls it.

To repeat a request I’ve made in the past… I need a way to train Siri to understand my voice. I have a very unusual speech impediment that makes all voice activated things completely fail.
 
robertosh said:
I’m happy to have an old phone! My only hope is that is possible to disable this for good. not like the way wifi disabling works nowadays. Only can be disabled for one day and going out of airplane mode enables it again #$&*&&$@#$$&*
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Can’t you just remove the WiFi network(s) from your list of networks and don’t allow “guest” networks? If it can’t join a network, who cares if it is enabled?
 
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does that mean users with iPhone 14 - PRO and lower models will be stuck with dumb Siri?
 
hagar said:
What a huge disappointment. This announcement confirms Apple completely missed the boat on AI. Basically they announced what they want to build over the next years. Not what they will release in September.

And don’t get me started on this English Only limitation. It’s 2024. ChatGTP launched with dozens of languages from the start. International users will have to wait many years for features to trickle down.

Very very disappointing.
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Well at least Phil Schiller doesn't go on stage anymore. Couldn't stand him.
 
It's a real shame they decided to lock the iPhone 15 out. Guess I made a good decision not upgrading from my 11 Pro to regular 15 and instead wait for the 16 Pro.

Also on the security front I really don't think there is too much to worry about as all computations are on-device. It's only if you sign into ChatGPT then the data is probably sent to the cloud.
 
contacos said:
I can see this being hindered by GDPR or something in the EU
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In what way? The user data is only stored on your device. GDPR would only care about data stored on server.

The on device processing stays… on device.
The Private Cloud Compute processing is done by special servers that have no persistent storage. They just work from RAM.
Even the ChatGPT integration is contractually restricted from storing any of the request data.
 
AustinIllini said:
This is cool but the GPT integration looks clunky
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it would be. It is handled by a separate, external service. Much like a web search when current Siri falls back on “Here’s what I found on the web.”. At least it is very clear when you are using ChatGPT verses the Apple AI.
 
klasma said:
It also doesn’t sound like they are planning to make it multilingual, in the sense that it would automatically recognize and switch between languages.
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That would probably take a lot more resources when they are probably pretty constrained by on-device operation anyway. I could see that as an enhancement for next year’s update. It seems to be a popular feature in these kinds of AIs.
 
skippingrock said:
I must express my disappointment with Apple's plan to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into it's OSes. Apple seemed to go to great lengths to express its commitment to privacy, only to drop the bombshell that it was going to be moving to use ChatGPT for its enhanced abilities. In the demonstrations shown, it seems to only give you the option of whether or not you wanted to send the request to ChatGPT to do it… or not. I would have liked to have seen the ability to provide the service with Apple's technology instead as an opt-out option. Plus as a parent, I am especially concerned about the sending of data to ChatGPT anonymized or not. I would expect that Apple allows the access to ChatGPT to be disabled and restricted from a parental setting for a child's device and for their own.
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ChatGPT is not fully integrated into the OS. It is connected as an external service with only some kinds of requests getting sent to OpenAI for handling. If you watch the keynote presentation, you will see a clear demarcation between the on-device and on private server processing done with Apple AI and the more distant integration with ChatGPT where you need to tap a button each time saying that you want to use ChatGPT. That is more like the integration with Google when Siri gives up and says “Here’s what I found on the web”.

They didn’t talk about it today, but we have heard that you will be able to opt out of having Apple AI enabled, at least the Apple Intelligence parts. It’s pretty clear that the ChatGPT integration is also designed to be configurable and you will almost certainly be able to disable that, separately.
 
zorinlynx said:
I have to ask you, why do you actually want this stuff? So you can send your friends creepy looking AI images? I don't get it. Nothing about this "AI revolution" really speaks to me, other than better image and speech recognition, and stuff like the iPad calculator.

Getting computers to do our creative work for us is lame, not revolutionary.
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Because a Siri that’s actual useful is… useful. Asking her something without having to swap between 3-4 apps can be revolutionary.
 
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