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These Two Apple Intelligence Features Not Expected Until iOS 18.2

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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman today said that two more Apple Intelligence features for the iPhone are still months away from being released.

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In his Power On newsletter, Gurman said that Apple now plans to make the Image Playground feature for generating images and the Genmoji feature for generating custom emoji available in iOS 18.2, which will likely be released in December.

Here is how Apple describes Image Playground:
Produce fun, original images in seconds with the Image Playground experience right in your apps. Create an entirely new image based on a description, suggested concepts, and even a person from your Photos library. You can easily adjust the style and make changes to match a Messages thread, your Freeform board, or a slide in Keynote.
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Here is how Apple describes Genmoji:
Make a brand-new Genmoji right in the keyboard to match any conversation. Provide a description to see a preview, and adjust your description until it's perfect. You can even pick someone from your Photos library and create a Genmoji that looks like them.
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The first Apple Intelligence features will be available starting with iOS 18.1, which is likely to be released to the public in October. These features include new writing tools for generating and summarizing text, notification summaries, suggested replies in the Messages app, the ability to record and transcribe phone calls, a new "Clean Up" tool in the Photos app that can quickly remove objects from a photo, and a few others.

Apple Intelligence will require an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 18.1 or later. The features will initially be available with device language set to English only. Apple said more languages will follow over the next year.

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This makes sense after the rollout of the Google tool and everyone realized there weren’t sufficient guardrails in place to prevent (or at least reduce) the likelihood of generating offensive content from the tool. They’d rather have it locked down up front as opposed to having to tweak it afterwards.
 
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DBZmusicboy01 said:
Apple should cancel the whole AI thing.
Most people don’t feel comfortable with the whole idea and it will cause more problems in every way possible. Fixing Bugs is way more important and adding easier features.
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Do you have a link to anything that "most" people aren't comfortable with AI. Most I know have no problem with it, but of course my connections are very limited and don't necessarily reflect society.

I saw a survey by Pew Research back in 2023 that said 52% don't feel comfortable, but in a year that could have decreased.
 
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DBZmusicboy01 said:
Apple should cancel the whole AI thing.
Most people don’t feel comfortable with the whole idea and it will cause more problems in every way possible. Fixing Bugs is way more important and adding easier features.
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"Most people", I think the analytics of the number of users, actively using AI tools would contradict that, and that is with systems that hold privacy far less high than Apple's approach. So imagine you mean to say you don't feel comfortable with and would prefer them focusing on bug fixes than new features. However, years they focus on bug fixes and not new features they get far more slammed for falling behind, and not innovating any more etc.
 
MacRumors said:
"Produce fun, original images in seconds with the Image Playground experience right in your apps. Create an entirely new image based on a description, suggested concepts, and even a person from your Photos library. You can easily adjust the style and make changes to match a Messages thread, your Freeform board, or a slide in Keynote."
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It's really cool of Apple to finally release an image generator... or at least announce that they're going to eventually release one, at some unspecified date later this year. Meanwhile, Bing Image Creator has been out since March 2023 and you can run it on an iPhone 6S or newer. We really live in a time where Microsoft is a more innovative company than Apple, huh? 🙃

...wait, sorry, Microsoft doesn't have an AI emoji generator and has never mentioned any plans to make one. I take it all back, clearly Apple is ahead in the game. :cool:
 
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RSmith2023 said:
This makes sense after the rollout of the Google tool and everyone realized there weren’t sufficient guardrails in place to prevent (or at least reduce) the likelihood of generating offensive content from the tool. They’d rather have it locked down up front as opposed to having to tweak it afterwards.
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While fully sensitive to "offensive," who can be the judge of that? Artistic expression at its best has no boundaries. As someone decides to set boundaries, art is "pinched" down.

I have zero desire to be exposed to "offensive" images myself... but my definition of what is offensive will likely differ from yours which will differ from the next guy. Someone's "absolutely offensive" is someone else's cutting-edge, "amazing" art(istic expression).

Trusting a corporation to police it will be getting their definition of offensive... which seems likely to lean as far to the "safe" for any and all eyes as possible... which means pinching the boundaries much tighter than you or I or the other guy might pinch it. I don't believe that is best... even if in one read, it might seem so to many. There are people who can be offended over what will seem like (towards) nothing to the masses. Filter offensive for them (also Apple product buyers) and I suspect the frustration with the tool being too "tight" for the masses will be criticized for overdoing it... especially with other options available with standards not set so tight.
 
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Well, since I do not have any plans to upgrade my 13PM - I don’t care and am not going to miss this “Apple Intelligence” … I might give it a try on my Mac though, maybe…
 
DBZmusicboy01 said:
Apple should cancel the whole AI thing.
Most people don’t feel comfortable with the whole idea and it will cause more problems in every way possible. Fixing Bugs is way more important and adding easier features.
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Apple can’t neglect the possibilities of AI. Apple is already late to the party. There are also lots of ways with AI to get more productive. I’m not a native English speaker and would find it very handy to translate my text in proper English. AI can do that!

I’m not interested in AI emojis but can imagine the youth will be. As with all new technologies it can be useful in a good way. But could also bring new risks to the table.

AI is here to stay. Either you adapt or get left behind as a company. Every consumer has the choice to use it or not. Companies have no choice and I really hope Apple will get at the forefront of this because it’s already very late.
 
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Realityck said:
Too many things are lumped into Apple Intelligence hardware requirements that could be accomplished in the cloud. Is doing all the word tools functionality that much of a AI accomplishment locally?
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I specifically WANT Apple intelligence on device. Otherwise I’m not interested.
 
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Rradcircless said:
I specifically WANT Apple intelligence on device. Otherwise I’m not interested.
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Thats all great but iOS 18 AI is only the start.

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DBZmusicboy01 said:
Apple should cancel the whole AI thing.
Most people don’t feel comfortable with the whole idea and it will cause more problems in every way possible. Fixing Bugs is way more important and adding easier features.
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Fairly certain that Apple has indicated that these features (Including ChatGPT integration with Apple Intelligence) can be toggled off.

If that is correct then turn those off and don't use them. Simple as that.
 
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MacRumors said:


Bloomberg's Mark Gurman today said that two more Apple Intelligence features for the iPhone are still months away from being released.

Apple-Intelligence-General-Feature-2.jpg

In his Power On newsletter, Gurman said that Apple now plans to make the Image Playground feature for generating images and the Genmoji feature for generating custom emoji available in iOS 18.2, which will likely be released in December.

Here is how Apple describes Image Playground:
ios-18-genmoji.jpg

Here is how Apple describes Genmoji:The first Apple Intelligence features will be available starting with iOS 18.1, which is likely to be released to the public in October. These features include new writing tools for generating and summarizing text, notification summaries, suggested replies in the Messages app, the ability to record and transcribe phone calls, a new "Clean Up" tool in the Photos app that can quickly remove objects from a photo, and a few others.

Apple Intelligence will require an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 18.1 or later. The features will initially be available with device language set to English only. Apple said more languages will follow over the next year.

Article Link: These Two Apple Intelligence Features Not Expected Until iOS 18.2
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Considering I have zero interest in either of those...

Meh?

Perhaps the time and money spent on those could have been put towards something useful? Like resurrecting QTVR for the 21st century? Pro and Pro-sumer authoring tools that could allow content to be created and viewed on any Apple device, optimized for AVP?

Or bringing back Aperture? Even the last version of Aperture is 1000% better than Lightroom, or Photos..

Or another Home-Button SE update before ditching that form factor?

Nah.. More emoji bull-butter is *much* more important... sigh.

SMH
 
I'm not really assuming... but if we are going to assume, I'll assume the sci-fi trajectory and eventually the A.I. self-programming gets smart enough to recognize programming bugs and gets rid of them. It won't be tired or distracted or (probably) as prone to typos, etc. It's working for zero pay, so there's no manager pushing for claims of "finished" before everything has been worked over enough times to find all bugs. A thousand threads can be checking each others work 24/7/365. A.I. doesn't have to go home to family or check texts or go for a smoke break, etc. It can just code, code, code... debug, debug, debug... etc.

Then it decides the biological "creators" that coded that buggy code it is fixing is not "God" and thus inferior for making such simple mistakes. Skynet and T-1000s follow soon. In that Ahhhhnold voice, "Code this right if you want to live." ;)
 
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