10 Cool Uses of Apple Intelligence
The Apple event and keynotes for WWDC 2024 were impressive and bode well for the tech giant’s first major sortie in this AI era.
Here are the key highlights from the section of the keynote about Apple Intelligence:
Introduction of Apple Intelligence: A new personal intelligence system integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia to enhance user interaction with devices through advanced AI capabilities.
Capabilities: Apple Intelligence enables devices to understand and create language, images, and perform tasks by understanding the user's personal context.
Privacy-Centric Design: Built with privacy as a core tenet, Apple Intelligence processes most data on-device and uses a new standard called Private Cloud Compute for complex requests, ensuring user data is not stored or accessed by Apple.
Enhancements to Siri: Significant improvements include more contextual and conversational abilities, the option to type to Siri, and a deeper integration into the system for more natural interactions.
System-wide Writing Tools: These tools, powered by Apple Intelligence, help users with tasks like rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text across all apps.
Content Creation: Users can generate new images and styles directly in conversations and documents through a feature known as Image Playground, which is integrated into various apps.
Developer Integration: Apple provides new APIs and frameworks for developers to integrate Apple Intelligence features into their apps, enhancing functionality with minimal effort.
Future Rollouts: Features of Apple Intelligence will be available in beta in US English this summer, with broader rollouts and additional languages and features expected over the next year.
Here are 10 examples of how they used Apple “I” to perform some automated and innovative tasks:
Siri Interactions: Demonstrations included Siri's improved understanding of context, allowing continuous conversation and follow-up commands without needing to repeat context.
Writing Tools in Mail: Featured the use of tools like rewrite, proofread, and summarize within Mail to improve communication clarity and efficiency.
Image Playground: Showcased the ability to create custom images by describing them, allowing users to dynamically generate images in styles like Animation, Sketch, or Illustration.
Genmoji in Messages: Users can generate personalized emoji (Genmoji) by providing descriptions, enhancing digital communication with custom images that reflect specific emotions or appearances.
Integrating ChatGPT: Demonstrated how Siri can leverage ChatGPT to provide detailed answers to complex queries with a focus on maintaining user privacy and data security.
Photo Editing Tools: The new Clean Up tool allows users to easily remove unwanted elements from photos, enhancing the overall appearance of images.
Memory Movie Creation: Apple Intelligence can automatically create themed Memory Movies from users' photo libraries by selecting relevant photos and videos, arranging them into a storyline, and setting them to music.
Automatic Address Addition to Contacts: Demonstrated how Siri can automatically add a new address sent via text message directly to a contact's information in the user's address book.
Personal Context Awareness with Siri: Siri can now use personal context to assist with tasks like scheduling and remembering details from emails or text messages, even correcting user errors in real-time.
Natural Language Photo Search: Enhanced search capabilities allow users to find specific photos using natural language descriptions, such as "photos of Stacey in New York wearing a pink coat."