Apple Intelligence Is Out Today (theverge.com) 13
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Apple's AI features are finally starting to appear. Apple Intelligence is launching today on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, offering features like generative AI-powered writing tools, notification summaries, and a cleanup tool to take distractions out of photos. It's Apple's first official step into the AI era, but it'll be far from its last. Apple Intelligence has been available in developer and public beta builds of Apple's operating systems for the past few months, but today marks the first time it'll be available in the full public OS releases. Even so, the features will still be marked as "beta," and Apple Intelligence will very much remain a work in progress. (You'll have to get on a waitlist to try Apple Intelligence, too.) Siri gets a new look, but its most consequential new features -- like the ability to take action in apps -- probably won't arrive until well into 2025.
In the meantime, Apple has released a very "AI starter kit" set of features. "Writing Tools" will help you summarize notes, change the tone of your messages to make them friendlier or more professional, and turn a wall of text into a list or table. You'll see AI summaries in notifications and emails, along with a new focus mode that aims to filter out unimportant alerts. The updated Siri is signified by a glowing border around the screen, and it now allows for text input by double-tapping the bottom of the screen. It's helpful stuff, but we've seen a lot of this before, and it'll hardly represent a seismic shift in how you use your iPhone. Apple says that more Apple Intelligence features will arrive in December. [...] Availability will expand in December to Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK, with additional languages coming in April. Despite Apple's previous claim that Apple Intelligence wouldn't be available in the European Union due to the Digital Markets Act, the features will, in fact, be coming to Europe in April of next year.
Further reading: Apple Updates the iMac With M4 Chip
In the meantime, Apple has released a very "AI starter kit" set of features. "Writing Tools" will help you summarize notes, change the tone of your messages to make them friendlier or more professional, and turn a wall of text into a list or table. You'll see AI summaries in notifications and emails, along with a new focus mode that aims to filter out unimportant alerts. The updated Siri is signified by a glowing border around the screen, and it now allows for text input by double-tapping the bottom of the screen. It's helpful stuff, but we've seen a lot of this before, and it'll hardly represent a seismic shift in how you use your iPhone. Apple says that more Apple Intelligence features will arrive in December. [...] Availability will expand in December to Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK, with additional languages coming in April. Despite Apple's previous claim that Apple Intelligence wouldn't be available in the European Union due to the Digital Markets Act, the features will, in fact, be coming to Europe in April of next year.
Further reading: Apple Updates the iMac With M4 Chip
Just goes to show ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Despite Apple's previous claim that Apple Intelligence wouldn't be available in the European Union due to the Digital Markets Act, the features will, in fact, be coming to Europe in April of next year.
This just goes to show that no matter how much a megacorp complains about being unfairly victimised by regulation, legislation, being busted for tax cheating and no matter how much they threaten to go home and sulk over it, when push comest to shove, they will not abandon a market of 450 million potential customers.
Apple Intelligence name (Score:2)
Genius (Score:2)
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What a fucking nightmare. At the end of the day, I did get $4,000 worth of replacement parts for my laptop for $99, though.
That all being said, I've been playing with Apple Intelligence since it became available in the Developer Beta, and while its name is irredeemably stupid, its feature set is actually pretty fucking cool.
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Someone posted another one on Twitter this week. Their mother said a long hike nearly killed her. Apple Intelligence summarised it as having survived suicide and then gone hiking.
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I'm erased from all my wife's pictures (Score:1)
Talking about distractions....
I hope Apple Intelligence will do the right thing with my dick pics.
SuperKendall must be so excited (Score:2)
SuperKendall hasn't been so excited for "writing tools" on an iPhone since Apple gave him content creation tools for the iPad!
Can we turn it off? (Score:3)
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You can't even turn it on, since it's currently "waitlisted" and you have to be "invited" to enable it, and it's limited to the United States. (Which is odd, because I thought it was supposed to all run on-device.) Plus it only works on the latest iPhones: Apple is using it to try and sell phones.
None of which answers your question. Presumably you won't be able to turn it off after some random update in the future. When Apple says "it just works" they really mean "we don't give you any choice."
But right now
continue to burn up the planet for this crap? (Score:1)
Writing Tools" will help you summarize notes, change the tone of your messages to make them friendlier or more professional, and turn a wall of text into a list or table. You'll see AI summaries in notifications and emails, along with a new focus mode that aims to filter out unimportant alerts. The updated Siri is signified by a glowing border around the screen, and it now allows for text input by double-tapping the bottom of the screen. It's helpful stuff, but we've seen a lot of this before, and it'll har