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New: 'Apple Intelligence' AI Service for iOS 18 Will Have These Features

abatabia said:
Typical. Want this new service? Go drop a grand on the newest model and spend $29.99 a month for this service. No reason my 14Pro can’t handle this.
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It could be limited by the RAM in the phone. If you look at Apple's recently released open source opemELM model, it has 1 billion parameters. If quantized to 8-bits, simply loading it will use 1GB of iPhone RAM before you even get into loading the new AI software and then uses the model. At 16-bits (not so likely) it would use 2GB of RAM.

The CPU and GPU cores inside the phone would be almost up to the task, I can run it on my M2-Pro Mac with 16GB at about 20 tokens per second. The phone would be much slower but still OK.

I think ther main thing with these AI models is the RAM. iPhones are already tight on RAM and then the AI stuff fill up 1GB on top of what you are already using.
 
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I hope that soon enough an AI measure equivalent to IQ will emerge. Let's say we call it AIQ and its value will be determined by a set of specific standardized tasks. It would make much easier for consumers to choose the smartest one for their general and specialized goals, stimulate quantitative and transparent comparison of various models and their derivatives and push the AI field forward in general.
 
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2Xtreme21 said:
Wonder if those of us with older phones will get at least something out of this. Or if they’re going to lock all features down for everything but the newest devices.
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What is so hard to understand that some features like AI require modern horsepower? Folks always want their old devices to run the latest stuff and think that if their old hardware does not it is because "they’re going to lock all features down," which is absurd.

And those folks are probably the same ones who for the last two years have been arguing that choosing to buy 8 or 16 GB RAM is plenty.
 
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endemize said:
The intelligence part comes from not manually coding the logic. The logic is built on machine learning. For example. Manual code might be look up dictionary, that is predefined by people, of words that might go after you type “Hello” and then provides a recommendation. AI instead uses machine learning to scan a ton of conversations and then uses its own way to recommend the next word that comes. Make sense?
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No it doesn’t. “Machine learning” is another hype term for better programming. Machines don’t “learn”, they’re programmed what to do. And that includes processing data without human intervention.
 
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Apple will announce its new AI feature set for Apple devices at WWDC on June 10, and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that it will be officially called "Apple Intelligence."

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The AI capabilities will be coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15. The features will be opt-in, meaning Apple won't make users adopt them if they don't want to.

The processing requirements of AI will mean that users need an iPhone 15 Pro or one of the iPhone 16 models coming out this year to use it. For those using iPads or Macs, models will need an M1 chip at least. Apple's AI features will be powered by its own technology and tools from OpenAI, but there will also be a partnership with OpenAI that powers a ChatGPT-like chatbot.

Apple Intelligence is expected to handle basic AI tasks, and it will work mostly on-device. In other words, the model is powered by the device's onboard processor, rather than in the cloud. It's not clear what the criteria for a basic task will be, but Apple Intelligence is said to include code that determines if a request can be processed on device or requires Apple's servers.

Here are some of the key new AI-related features and changes rumored or previewed for iPhones, iPads, and Macs that we've covered so far:
Gurman says that The AI features will account for about half of Apple’s WWDC keynote presentation, which starts at 10 a.m. Pacific time on June 10.

For those unable to watch the live stream, or who prefer to read a text version of the announcements, we'll have live coverage both here on MacRumors.com and through our MacRumorsLive X (Twitter) account, so make sure to follow.

Article Link: New: 'Apple Intelligence' AI Service for iOS 18 Will Have These Features
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I really want better searching. If you use Apple Mail to find a message it is painful.

If you search the same email account (in my case GMail) via the web, search is soooo much better and provides better results.
 
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I am really looking forward to Apple Intelligence, and will be opting in at all levels. I believe Apple will integrate this better than anyone has to date. And, the next versions will be even better. I currently own an iPhone 15 Pro Max. I will be upgrading to the iPhone 16 Pro Max this fall just to make sure I can take advantage of everything provided. My guess is the software will analyze what hardware is available, and some things will be provided, other things will not, at least on the phone.
 
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Allen_Wentz said:
What is so hard to understand that some features like AI require modern horsepower? Folks always want their old devices to run the latest stuff and think that if their old hardware does not it is because "they’re going to lock all features down," which is absurd.

And those folks are probably the same ones who for the last two years have been arguing that choosing to buy 8 or 16 GB RAM is plenty.
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Repeating something I posted above:

I guess, but per the table here, the A16 Neural Engine can hit 17 TOPS, while the M1 (which is getting the AI features per the article) can only hit 11 TOPS. This is the most important metric for AI tasks, so by looking at this alone, the 14 Pro should be able to handle it.

Granted, RAM and raw processing power is lower in the mobile chip than the M1, but I’m interested in Apple’s rationale for what the limitations are that prevents these older phones from carrying out at least some of these tasks.
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There hasn’t been some monumental upgrade over the last year that has suddenly made every phone from 2022 no longer “modern hardware”.
 
I like the fact Apple made it an opt-in feature. I believe both Microsoft and Google should make their AI features opt-in also, especially given the serious security concerns about the Copilot+ feature in Windows 11.
 
MrRom92 said:
It does. Support for a common file format is a beyond basic thing no other device has trouble with, that continues to get overlooked while Apple gets into the weeds with all these advanced features. It’s right up there with old common complaints about iPhone. Can’t take videos, can’t send pictures in a text, no copy and paste, photos app can’t even view GIFs, etc.
Apple doesn’t care about people who don’t want to pay for music streaming and prefer to locally store their music. It would be wrong to say the music capabilities of the phone are stuck in 2007, it’s actually LESS capable now than it was then.
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You have several 3rd party apps that open FLAC. Not even Macs or Windows PCs open them by default, you rely on 3rd party apps. And it has nothing to do with AI.
 
MrRom92 said:
There are no shortage of third party apps that can play back all manner of file formats but it’s really not an appropriate solution to have these files sandboxed and treated like a 2nd class music library, treated completely differently from the one natively integrated within iOS.
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When I first got my Mac I wrote a script to convert all my FLACs to ALACs so the Music app could see them. And then I decided I hate the Music app anyway so that was a waste of time and I'll probably have to convert them all back to FLACs so they'll be more compatible with other devices. Duh.
 
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