TechAISmarter Siri is coming this year, and that’s just the start of Apple AIApple’s been cooking up something AI-powered for ages. This summer we’re going to find out exactly what it can do for usWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechAISmarter Siri is coming this year, and that’s just the start of Apple AIApple’s been cooking up something AI-powered for ages. This summer we’re going to find out exactly what it can do for usWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Apple’s been cooking up something AI-powered for ages. This summer we’re going to find out exactly what it can do for us
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According toBloomberg, Apple is going to unveil a ton of AI-powered things at its annual WWDC developers' conference this year. As previously reported that includes a much better and more responsive version of the Siri personal digital assistant, which is destined for this year’siOS18. But there’s a lot more where Siri’s coming from.
Apple and AI: what to expect in 2024
According to the report, Apple’s Ajax large language model – Apple’s equivalent of Google Bard or Microsoft Copilot – may be used to power a whole bunch of features across multiple Apple apps. That means you can expect AI-powered autocompletion and auto-summarising in core apps and in flagship ones such as Pages and Keynote; AI-powered playlist generation in Apple Music; AI-powered code completion in the Xcode software development platform; and even AI-powered troubleshooting in AppleCare.
We won’t be able to use all of these new features immediately – rolling them out will be an ongoing process that’ll run well into 2025, the report says – and in the meantime that means Apple’s rivals are likely to use the AI gap as part of their marketing.
Of all the AI-related predictions, a smarter Siri is the one I’m really hoping for: Apple’s personal digital assistant is lagging far behind the likes ofAmazon’sAlexaand Google Assistant, especially when it comes to answering queries: it’s 2024 and when I ask Siri a question on myHomePodsorApple Watchit’s still telling me to go and look on my iPhone.
Recent updates have made Siri a little more responsive but in my home at least it’s still noticeably inferior to Alexa in terms of the accuracy of its voice recognition and its ability to carry out tasks the first time you ask rather than making you repeat the same commands again and again. And of course Siri is a key part of theVision Promixed reality future: if we’re going to embrace keyboard-less computing then Siri needs to be one of those things that just works.
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