Apple is expected to announce its AI initiative, dubbed "Apple Intelligence," at WWDC 2023, featuring enhanced AI capabilities for Siri and AI integration across products and services.
Apple Intelligence will introduce AI features integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, and VisionOS, enhancing user experience and productivity across apps through AI integration, such as AI-powered Siri, improved Spotlight Search, intelligent Safari search, voice memo-to-text conversion, AI photo correction, and potential chatbot integration.
Siri is expected to receive significant upgrades, including improved contextual awareness, natural language understanding, proactive intelligence, camera control features, enhanced text interaction, photo editing, and accessing old photos.
iOS 18 and macOS 15 are expected to receive AI-powered enhancements for the Mail app, including advanced search, Smart Reply with AI-generated responses, email categorization, and identification of urgent messages.
iPadOS 18 may transform iPads into powerful productivity tools, introducing features like a Journal app, a native Calculator app, enhanced gaming capabilities.
Many iOS, macOS, and iPadOS AI features are expected to run primarily on-device, utilizing the neural engine in the A17 and M1 chips for privacy and speed, with some tasks offloaded to the cloud based on complexity. Advanced AI features may require newer devices with A17 Pro and M1 chips or later.
Apple might announce new AI features alongside the iPhone 16 in September, with the A18 processor offering enhanced AI capabilities. The company is reportedly considering partnerships with OpenAI and Google for AI integration and introducing a new AI App Store.
Users may have the option to opt-in to the beta version of Apple Intelligence, allowing control over enabling AI features based on their needs and data privacy preferences, with some features potentially available only on specific devices like the iPhone 15 Pro or later.
Sources: Cnet, ReadWrite, Mashable, Cult of Mac, PC Tablet, GizChina, TradingView, AppleInsider.
This article was written in collaboration with Generative AI news company Alchemiq.
