Apple's Intelligence Overview
A few bits of news and tools from the artificial intelligence world.
Morning y’all!
Friday. We made it. We really did. There’s been so much AI news this week that’s it’s been hard to keep up! What I thought I’d do is share a few insights into what’s coming down the pipe for Apple Intelligence since their tooling and approach is oftentimes the benchmark for everyone else. In other words, what they release becomes the defacto standard for smaller companies.
It does look impressive, I’ll give you that!
I tried installing iOS 18.1 public beta on my iPhone 15 Pro and went through the list of recorded updates, the focus being on these 3 key areas:
Email Summaries
Photo Clean Up
Writing Tools
The first is Email Summaries which might be eventually be one of the more used features. It’s a bit like an email assistant who helps you focus on what matters and highlights those things, especially larger (and boring) threads — we all know what that’s like.
The second is some improvements to Photos and their digital eraser feature looks really, really good. In the example above you can see that it smartly removes Grouch from the scene but, sadly, it also took Cookie Monster’s eyes as well. Not perfect but I’ve gotten it to easily remove my dog from a few images without it being obvious.
Nice. This may also become a fan favorite.
Lastly, their new Writing Tools update helps with grammar and those small, annoying (and unprofessional) takes. I think I’m a bit fine without this feature though since my grammar is more than fine at this point, but, I can see a lot of folks eventually putting this into their fundamental workflows.
I mean, there’s a reason like Grammarly is a massive business and some of my friends swear by it but I’ve never found a real use.
Finally, there are some other smaller updates that I’m sure will get more improvement in the coming months, Siri and Transcriptions to be more precise. Nothing special about the former (or anything unexpected) but I’ve never really adopted Siri on a personal level but transcriptions are something I’m definitely using more and more.
What are you thoughts about these coming upgrades? Are you more excited or is it more of a ho-hum type of reaction? Let me know if the comments!
A few links to click:
Kling’s new AI tool looks insanely cool (above).
Voice generation tool that’s open source.
AI content at scale.
Will AI’s intelligence overtake humans?
Realistic characters that can speak.
And that’s it friends! Have a great week.
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
