You organization allows you send your internal email to chatgpt? That’s breaking information security policy I can imagine.
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This is OCR and we’ve had it around for at least 25 years now. The fact it stores the OCR data with the photo doesn’t make it AI.
I've been able to do that with receipts since the 90s and Windows 3.1.
OCR is not a new concept.
You can already do that by creating text shortcuts. For example when I type ph my phone # appears, same for ad & my address. You can create any text shortcut you want say td for your traveler ID… 😉
None of this involves OpenAI.
The ChatGPT integration is entirely separate and will only come up when asking Siri for web knowledge or other requests that need a massive server to interpret. then you'll get an annoying popup asking if you want to use ChatGPT for this.
Even on the ChatGPT requests, Apple's contract with OpenAI prevents them from using your data for training or otherwise retaining any of the request sent to them. They have to throw it all away once the request is done. Apple lawyers likely put some teeth into that contract to ensure compliance. Apple doesn't want data leaks.
The only part of this that appeals to me is the ability to surface plans regardless of where I wrote them down (notes, calendar, email, etc).
As a neurodivergent person that feature will be extremely useful…but I’m not upgrading my 13 mini anytime soon.
I agree that many people are already no too bright, but, it will also erode creativity, writing abilities and the ability to research something. IQs won't drop, but abilities/skills will.
That's how it works. You are notified that the call is being recorded and you can either ask them to turn that off or hang up. It's also how it works on Zoom and other video conferencing systems.
I’m still shocked to this day how many office workers rely on Grammarly…and the nonprofessional tone people still email in anyway.
Ask Zoom and Teams who are already doing this. You are notified of the recording and can either ask them to stop or hang up. Anything else becomes too cumbersome to use. This is more like real world. If you walk up to someone and start talking and they say, just a minute while I record this conversation, you can say "stop" or you can walk away.
That seems to be the reflexive reaction here to many Apple product introductions.
iPod -> Who asked for a thousand songs in your pocket? (commenting on Jobs' iPod introduction)
iPhone -> Nobody will use a mobile phone with a non-mechanical keyboard.
iPad -> It's just a large iPhone!
Watch -> Who needs it? If I need to know the time I'll just look at my phone!
With respect to the AI features (that just scratched the surface) covered in Dan's video up above... Anyone who does research, processes information, reads (professionally/pleasure or as a student), writes papers/documents/summaries/books/etc. can benefit from the initial set of features covered in the story's video.
What was covered in the video will certainly be useful for me.
Normally, if I am writing an email of importance, I will write it, run it through AI, and say something like, “Make this more professional” or “Make this more friendly,” etc.
Guessing you’ve ever used grammar check or spellcheck in Word, Grammarly, and other writing tools are just an upgrade to those.
Not a use case for me, because it would be a breach of data protection to expose company communication and data to OpenAI. It would be nice to have a local LLM for stuff like that, though.
Anyone can record a phone conversation anyway, using a second device.
How about on your desktop or laptop computer?
It also runs on macOS according to the story.
Just like this shoe doesn’t fit everyone, it’s important to remember that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.
Interestingly, Apple Intelligence's writing tools work offline. I used it to re-write the above to be "friendlier" while in airplane mode.
The only problem with doing a Youtube video on this is that the demo is only on iOS, looking at MacOS I see writing tools greyed out. I wonder how equivalent the implementation is across iOS/iPadOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1? So yes prefer editors discussing Apple Intelligence across all the OS's.
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“It’s important to remember” is certainly very reminiscent of AI-speak.
Sure the current problem would be that for some. But organization-approved AI, either running locally or through a trusted provider will exist and bring benefits which I believe was the point of the post (AI tools being useful).
If you couldn't do those thing prior to AI, should you really have been in that position to begin with?
I believe what he's saying is using AI tools will be a huge time saver.