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Here's How Apple is Working to Improve Apple Intelligence

Well, now that they've given themselves a half year or longer to complete what they initially set out to do [and promised their customers], they should have plenty of time to get it figured out.
 
Training on synthetic data is what most of the newest models have been using. And embeddings are at the heart of how techniques like RAG work.

Apple would be better off, maybe, if they just adopted one of the better open source models.
 
Daalseth said:
Originally it was off by default. Then it was on but if you turned it off it would delete the AI data, some 7GB. On the latest builds the data not deleted. So it would not surprise me at all if in a few months it cannot be turned off.
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If the AI is always on then Apple gets a steady supply of current 'embeddings' to continuously update their models until their AI no longer qualifies as Augmented Idiocy (if they are lucky) enabling Apple to recover from their debacle.

If the embeddings contain product names that is immensely salable data and Apple makes bank without violating their customer's privacy, or so they'll claim.

And if certain other embeddings appear then the appropriate three letter agency can be promptly informed, much as Apple's CSAM search engine was intended to do.

For some reason this makes me think of the Imitation Game, where Turing said, "The only thing we need know to break the code is Heil Hitler" or something to that effect.
 
I've never received an email inviting to play tennis at 3pm LOL

By the way, the only thing Apple will end up proving here is that in order to have useful AI, it must be trained on private user data (looking at you notification summaries).
 
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Using AI to write an email to send an invitation to play tennis? Is that the best use-case they came up with? Seriously?
 
Just another BS PR from Apple. Why do they need to use the data from their users for training in a first place? There is plenty of open content on the internet. When OpenAI was training their first models they did not have a single user. This is Apple trying to come up with excuse for their AI failures. There are privacy related concerns related to AI, but they are not necessarily related to model training.
 
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Apple Intelligence killed one of my note’s formatting. You’re supposed to be able to reverse things before committing to Apple Intelligence edits, but it wiped out images and embedded YouTube vids from my note.

Wholly unintuitive and not that impressive, it really feels like a feature for email or Pages and not much else. The interface needs work as well.

The smarter they advertise Siri as being, the worse it gets. Still waiting on deleted iMessages to sync with the Apple Watch, or to at least make it quicker to delete individual messages.
 
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This is not inspiring hope. Autocorrect is so horrible on iOS. It’s barely usable. And it’s getting worse year after year. If this tech needs to save AI we’re all doomed.
 
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Timpetus said:
I've said it before elsewhere, but we may have already reached the peak of what LLMs can do, in terms of quality. They'll keep getting faster, of course, but once we've fed it all the actual human-generated content in existence, it'll mostly have other LLM-generated content to keep training on, in greater proportion as time goes on. Making worse garbage faster is not what I'd call progress. I'll keep practicing the craft of writing, thanks. Other enhancements to Siri are still welcome, like an awareness of what I'm currently looking at on the screen of my devices, or increased capabilities to equal what I can do myself with a tap or a click.
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Equally, we may not have reached the peak of what LLM's can do either. I don't think any of us can speak with authority on this. What could AI look like in another 5-10 years with trillions of dollars in investment? We can't know, but assuming it won't get more accurate could be wildly misguided.
 
I miss the Apple that built clever solutions for problems I hadn’t expected until I noticed the Apple solution swish it away. I have no interest in emoji of any form nor do I have any interest in image generation or sending generic emails and texts. My phone has all the information needed to provide a deeper level of assistance. Not just turning my house lights on and off or setting ann alarm automatically when I have a 7am mtg on the books. I want a functional assistant to assist me with MY tasks. Not children’s app and more settings and preferences and options. I want the “it just works” Apple back and I am not the only one. I’m not loyal to today’s Apple and someone will make it for us so it’s just a waiting game now.
 
here's a thought. let users opt-in to have their data used to train apple intelligence in exchanged for a reduced monthly icloud subscription
 
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Good to see that privacy is kept in mind while trying to improve Apple Intelligence. However would like to see Apple Intelligence and Siri improve by a lot. Don't know how Apple can improve while following the current approach.
 
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Daalseth said:
But the fact is I don’t WANT summarization or writing tools. As long as that and other generative AI stuff is Apple’s focus I will leave it off. How about a spelling checker that wasn’t an idiot? That I might go for. But the rest of what they have delivered, and advertised but not delivered, is not anything I want anywhere near my systems.
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Yeah. speller is still so miserable that is not often able fix word with two typos and generarlly incapabale to fix word that has typo in first character in 80% of time. And English speller is much better then some small languages.
IDK if it uses Neural Engine but do expect something more in 2025.
 
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They’re putting the cart before the horse. All we need out of AI is Siri getting song/search/call requests right, simple voice to text transcription, and navigation at least on par with Google maps 😖
 
I tried writing tools and was rather disappointed. A built-in tool similar to Grammarly would be immensely useful to me, especially when writing in foreign languages. Unfortunately the current incarnation is much less sophisticated than I hoped it would be.
 
Downundermac said:
They’re putting the cart before the horse. All we need out of AI is Siri getting song/search/call requests right, simple voice to text transcription, and navigation at least on par with Google maps 😖
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Sparous use of AI to improve iOS's basic functions would be a step in the right direction. Only a third of Apple users bother to engage with Siri anyway so pumping R&D money into making it conversational or whatever would be a waste.
 
Daalseth said:
But the fact is I don’t WANT summarization or writing tools. As long as that and other generative AI stuff is Apple’s focus I will leave it off. How about a spelling checker that wasn’t an idiot? That I might go for. But the rest of what they have delivered, and advertised but not delivered, is not anything I want anywhere near my systems.
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Don't use it. Other will use it. Let the people decide.
 
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