Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on Monday, June 10, 2024.
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apple A series of beta versions of Apple Intelligence features were released on Wednesday, including the long-awaited ChatGPT integration.
The company announced its response to the artificial intelligence craze this summer but is slowly rolling out its features to users. Investors hope artificial intelligence features will spur a wave of iPhone upgrades because the tools are only available on newer devices.
Apple says Apple Intelligence is already available in preview for developers and early adopters, but a general public version will be released next week as part of the official iOS 18.1 release. The latest batch of features is included in a beta version of iOS 18.2 released to software developers on Wednesday. Apple developer betas typically take a few weeks to be released to the public.
The preview included with iOS 18.2 includes:
- A new feature that describes how users would like Apple Intelligence to rewrite text blocks
- Genmoji, Apple’s new emoji image generator
- Image Playground, Apple’s AI image generator
- Image Wand, a feature that allows users to remove objects or distractions from photos
- Integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
However, the long-awaited Siri ability Take action within the app Not included in this update, but expected to be included soon.
Answer from ChatGPT
In June, Apple announced integration with ChatGPT. While Apple Intelligence and Siri primarily rely on chips inside Apple devices, the company said at the time that users could get answers from OpenAI’s chatbot for more complex questions or problems.
Apple Intelligence was unveiled on June 10 during Apple WWDC2024 in Cupertino, California. 2024.
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At the company’s developer conference, Apple demonstrated how the ChatGPT integration works. When Siri is asked a question that it thinks is more appropriate for ChatGPT, it will ask the user for permission to ask ChatGPT. Users do not need an OpenAI account. Users can also use ChatGPT to generate text in text fields.
ChatGPT will also be used as part of a feature Apple calls Visual Intelligence, in which the phone’s camera can recognize text or objects and even translate signs on the fly.
The partnership between the two companies is OpenAI’s clever ideanow is Valued at $157 billion after announcing the funding earlier this month.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on Apple’s campus when the integration was announced. That’s after Microsoft Begins to deeply integrate OpenAI models into its products.
However, neither Apple nor OpenAI has publicly commented on the financial details of this cooperation, and Apple is not an investor in OpenAI’s current round of financing. Apple executives also Suggest other AI modelsSome, such as those from Google, may also be integrated with Apple Intelligence in the future.
Some Apple Intelligence features are already in public testing and will be released as part of iOS 18.1 next week. The first wave of tools includes the ability to rewrite text, a new look for Siri, and notification summaries that condense a bunch of push notifications into a few sentences.
