Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2024 is set to take place on June 10th, where the company is expected to unveil the next generation of updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS and VisionOS. One of the most talked about changes this time around is the introduction of generative AI to many of the company’s apps and services in order to significantly improve the user experience.
Previous reports have suggested that Apple is looking to revamp its popular Siri voice assistant with the power of generative AI to make its responses more accurate and insightful.
However, a new leak from Apple Insider has revealed that Apple is training Siri to understand more ‘natural language’ commands, apart from the direct commands that the voice assistant already recognises. Apple is reportedly aiming to get its AI used to the natural language, speech patterns, sentence structures and instructions that Siri is likely to receive from the end users.
To accomplish this task, Apple is testing Siri by adding some superfluous details along with the task the user is trying to accomplish. For example, in addition to direct commands such as “Show me pictures of my cat”, Apple is also testing additional commands that relate to the user wanting to set up a blog, or in some cases, feeling lazy or nostalgic.
The report also revealed a comprehensive list of all first-party Apple apps that will be compatible with Siri’s new AI capabilities. The full list includes 18 Apple apps including Camera, Books, Contacts, Mail, Safari, News and Voice Memos.
Top AI features Siri could get with iOS 18:
1) Control camera actions:
Siri may get the ability to capture pictures and videos in iOS 18 using voice commands. Reportedly, users will be able to ask Siri to switch between the front and the rear camera, toggle video recording, open the camera in a specific mode and set a timer.
2) Mail features:
Siri may finally get the ability of segregate emails into different catgories like Commerce, News, Promotions, Social, Transactions and more. The AI assistant will reportedly also get the ability to perform different actions within the mail app like identifying emails as junk, send and un-send emails, create drafts, block or mute a specific sender, unsubscribe from emails, generate summaries and more.
Moreover, the Mail app is also likely to get the Smart Replies features which could help users send an AI generated response to an email. The feature may be powered by Apple’s own Ajax large language model (LLM) on-device, while more complicated tasks may use cloud based processing.
3) Photos app:
Siri is also likely to get the ability to handle a number of tasks within the Photos app oncluding editing, moving and hiding pictures, identifying objects, open specific pictures, add photos to albums, apply filters and more.
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Published: 09 Jun 2024, 07:28 AM IST