Apple Intelligence is promising, but still has a lot to learn – Axios
When fully released, Apple Intelligence will combine the power of Apple-built generative models with personal context while taking an extraordinary step forward for privacy.
Apple Intelligence’s first-wave features, released Thursday, offer only modest improvements that left Axios’ Ina Fried “excited for the future, but also impatient for it.”
Apple made the new AI features available as part of the public beta of iOS 18.1. The key elements are:
• summaries within e-mails and notifications;
• an image Clean Up feature, for removing unwanted objects from photos;
• and a set of writing tools that use generative AI to proofread and improve written text.
Apple’s overall strategy is to combine the power of generative AI with the vast amount of personal information on one’s device, all while preserving users’ privacy.
It’s an appealing approach, but the first go-around of Apple Intelligence offers just a glimmer of that broader vision.
The AI-powered Siri improvements I’m most excited for are all in Apple’s “still to come” bucket.
• For now, the changes are relatively modest. Users can now type to Siri as well as talk to it. Siri is better able to handle stumbles in speech, and it has more knowledge on how to access features within Apple products.
• None of these is a game-changer for me.
[S]ome of the most far-reaching — and fun — elements of Apple Intelligence are still to come. Some will be delivered later this year, while others aren’t promised until the first half of 2025.
MacDailyNews Take: Key features to come in 2025: Image Playground, Genmoji, and a Siri that actually works with richer language-understanding capabilities.
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