Apple Intelligence Is Out Today (theverge.com)
(Monday October 28, 2024 @06:50PM (BeauHD)
from the work-in-progress dept.)
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/10/28/2053259/apple-intelligence-is-out-today
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24272995/apple-intelligence-now-available-ios-18-1-mac-ipad
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge:
> Apple's AI features are [1]finally starting to appear . Apple Intelligence is [2]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 [3]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" [4]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 [5]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: [6]Apple Updates the iMac With M4 Chip
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24272995/apple-intelligence-now-available-ios-18-1-mac-ipad
[2] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is-available-today-on-iphone-ipad-and-mac/
[3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/121115#:~:text=To%20get%20started%20with%20Apple,though%20wait%20times%20can%20vary
[4] https://support.apple.com/en-us/121115#:~:text=The%20first%20set%20of%20Apple%20Intelligence%20features
[5] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/06/21/1652202/apple-wont-roll-out-ai-tech-in-eu-market-over-regulatory-concerns
[6] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/10/28/169206/apple-updates-the-imac-with-m4-chip
> Apple's AI features are [1]finally starting to appear . Apple Intelligence is [2]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 [3]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" [4]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 [5]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: [6]Apple Updates the iMac With M4 Chip
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24272995/apple-intelligence-now-available-ios-18-1-mac-ipad
[2] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is-available-today-on-iphone-ipad-and-mac/
[3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/121115#:~:text=To%20get%20started%20with%20Apple,though%20wait%20times%20can%20vary
[4] https://support.apple.com/en-us/121115#:~:text=The%20first%20set%20of%20Apple%20Intelligence%20features
[5] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/06/21/1652202/apple-wont-roll-out-ai-tech-in-eu-market-over-regulatory-concerns
[6] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/10/28/169206/apple-updates-the-imac-with-m4-chip
Apple Intelligence name (Score:2)
by dicobalt ( 1536225 )
So Apple is trying to trademark AI? They already tried to trademark the letter i...
Genius (Score:2)
by korgitser ( 1809018 )
From the company that brought us geniuses, cannot wait for the intelligence...
Re: (Score:2)
by DamnOregonian ( 963763 )
Shudder. Recently spent some time with "The Geniuses" (did you know they have a "Genius Room" in the Apple Store? lol)
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.
I'm erased from all my wife's pictures (Score:2)
by thesjaakspoiler ( 4782965 )
Talking about distractions....
I hope Apple Intelligence will do the right thing with my dick pics.
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.