according to”Bloomberg》Reporter Mark Gurman’s latest report is that Apple will announce multiple AI plans at the WWDC 2024 Global Developers Conference. The main focus of this event is named “Apple Intelligence”, which is equivalent to the abbreviation of AI artificial intelligence technology. There will be more AI The function is applied in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS and new versions of the operating system. At the same time, Bloomberg also shared the 10 most anticipated Apple AI feature highlights.
The 10 most anticipated highlights of Apple AI
1. Apple’s AI technology is named Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence will be the biggest highlight of the WWDC event and will use large-scale language models to be deeply integrated into Apple’s major new operating systems. Mark Gurman pointed out that Apple’s goal is to seamlessly integrate AI technology into daily applications so that users can enhance a smarter experience, rather than adopting the current forced promotion method of AI technology.
2. Some AI operations are only available on specific models.
Apple will also add Apple Intelligence to local offline and cloud server computing. The new version of the system will include algorithms to determine the type and complexity of the task before deciding which way to handle it.
If you want to realize the offline AI computing function, you must use iPhone 15 Pro series or above, or iPad and Mac equipped with M series chips.
3. Combination of Apple AI and OpenAI technologies
At the same time, Apple has also officially cooperated with OpenAI and will add a number of OpenAI generative technologies and functional support to the new version of the system. At the same time, Apple will also use its own language model regardless of function, rather than relying entirely on OpenAI processing.
4. AI technology mainly improves daily use
According to reports from Bloomberg, Apple will not focus on image and video generation AI technology or poetry generation, but will focus on improving users’ daily use and quick viewing of content, including Safari web page text summary, which can be generated by AI if you miss a notification. Notification summaries and iMessage messages can also give automatic reply suggestions. In emails, AI intelligence can also be used to classify incoming emails and organize users’ unread mailboxes.
5. Introducing a new Emoji emoticon creator
Mark Gurman said that generative AI will also support the new “Emoji Creator” function, which can create new Emoji emoticon patterns related to the content the user is typing, which will be richer than the emoticons defined by the Unicode Alliance.
6. Add AI photo editing to iPhone
The built-in Photos App on iPhone will also integrate a new AI photo editing function, similar to the Magic Eraser function in Google Pixel phones, which can quickly remove unnecessary objects in photos.
7. Memo voice to text conversion
At the same time, the recordings in voice memos will also be integrated with AI to realize automatic text conversion, just like the recording-to-text tool “Aiko”.
8. Will not force users to use AI functions
Mark Gurman said that if users are worried that AI processing in the cloud will cause privacy issues and make users unwilling to use AI functions, Apple will not force its use. Initially, Apple will position AI technology as a beta version and will also generate relevant information in the system. The report explains to users how data is protected. At the same time, Apple also plans to fully adopt an encryption protection design on its servers to make it as safe as possible.
9. Siri will be smarter by integrating AI
Major improvements to Siri and AI-driven code in Xcode are currently being developed. A smarter Siri will also receive a major upgrade. Users can more precisely control various functions in the application, such as telling Siri to delete emails, Editing photos or summarizing news articles will also be expanded to third-party applications in the future, and these functions will also be launched next year.
10. Xcode intelligent development tools will be launched next year
At the same time, Apple’s development tool Xcode will also be infused with a large number of AI elements, similar to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, which can automatically generate code for engineers. This new tool is currently used within Apple and is expected to be fully launched to all developers in 2025.
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