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Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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So was there ever a deal with OpenAI? Nothing in the keynote mentioned them or needs them. If there isn’t a deal, I’d love to know how everyone claiming it was signed on the dotted line was led so far down that garden path.

Yes, they mentioned ChatGPT.

Siri reviews the request and decided if it can respond on its own or if it needs ChatGPT. It then pops up a dialog asking if it is OK ti send the request to ChatGPT. It will not be the default LLM.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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At some point I wonder if Apple might share compute across your devices so you can do things on low-power hardware like the Watch while leveraging the CPU on the phone, etc. If Apple's dedicated to on-device compute, this ends up being your own "private cloud" of sorts.

Too many of their devices in the wild are battery powered, and one really nice thing about them is that their sleep-state battery use is incredibly low while maintaining quick wake-up.

Plus it’d be weird UX for all your devices to get worse because the iPad in a drawer somewhere finally ran out of power.

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This seems really cool. They said the models can scale to "private cloud compute" based on Apple Silicon which will be ensured by your device to run "publicly verifiable software" in order to guarantee no misuse of your data. I wonder if their server-side code will be open-source? That'd be positively surprising. Curious to see how this evolves. Anyway, overall looks really really cool. If it works as marketed, then…

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When does this roll out exactly? And exactly which inference actually is on-device? I think people have been fooled by marketing for this one and the new Co-Pilot PCs into thinking that most of the AI really is running on-device. The models that run fast locally are still fairly limited compared to what runs in the cloud.

Usually the OS announced at WWDC is released around mid September.

Specifically, the iOS update comes out with the new iPhones (usually dropping the same day the new devices are available) and the other OSes are usually timed to be released with it since features are shared across the OSes (so they want to release them at the same time) and the beta periods are the same.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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When does this roll out exactly? And exactly which inference actually is on-device? I think people have been fooled by marketing for this one and the new Co-Pilot PCs into thinking that most of the AI really is running on-device. The models that run fast locally are still fairly limited compared to what runs in the cloud.

The public betas will be available later this month. The official OS releases are usually in Sept and Oct. Some of the AI stuff should be available right away but rumors say that some of the more advanced Siri features (like app integration) might not launch until after the first of the year.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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It was a very quick mention, but Siri will now have a text button directly on the lock screen.

If we assume AI will get even 3-4x better, at a certain point, I can't help but think this is the future of computing.

Most users on mobile won't even need to open other apps.

We really are headed for agents doing mostly everything for us.

Re: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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I am pretty unhappy with Apple doing the image generation, was really hoping that just would not happen. But a lot of the other features actually seem useful without feeling shoehorned in. At least so far. I am hoping that I can turn off the ability to use a server while keeping local processing, but curious what that would actually look like. Would it just say "sorry can't do that" or something? Is it that there is…

What’s wrong with the image generation?
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