Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 is scheduled to take place on June 10, where the company is expected to unveil its next-generation 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 to significantly improve the user experience.
Previous reports have suggested that Apple is considering improving its popular Siri voice assistant with the power of generative AI to make responses more accurate and insightful.
However, a new leak from Apple Insider reveals that Apple is training Siri to understand more “natural language” commands apart from the direct commands the voice assistant already recognizes. Apple is reportedly aiming to familiarize the AI with the natural language, speech patterns, sentence structures, and instructions that Siri might receive from an end user.
To accomplish this task, Apple is testing Siri by adding some extra details to the task the user is trying to accomplish. For example, in addition to a direct command like “Show me pictures of my cat,” Apple is also testing additional commands related to a user's desire to start a blog, or possibly a feeling of laziness or nostalgia.
The report also revealed a comprehensive list of all Apple first-party apps that are compatible with Siri's new AI features. The full list includes 18 Apple apps, including Camera, Books, Contacts, Mail, Safari, News, and Voice Memos.
Key AI features coming to Siri in iOS 18 include:
1) Controlling the camera action:
Siri may be able to take photos and videos using voice commands in iOS 18. Users will reportedly be able to ask Siri to switch between the front and rear cameras, toggle video recording, start the camera in a specific mode, set a timer, and more.
2) Email function:
Siri may finally get the ability to classify emails into different categories like commerce, news, promotions, social, transactional, etc. The AI assistant will also reportedly be able to identify emails as spam and perform various actions within the Mail app, such as sending and unsending emails, creating drafts, blocking or muting specific senders, unsubscribing from emails, and generating summaries.
Additionally, the Mail app may also feature a Smart Reply feature that will allow users to send AI-generated replies to emails. This feature will likely be powered by Apple's own Ajax Large Language Models (LLMs) on the device, although more complex tasks may use cloud-based processing.
3) Photo App:
Siri could also be able to handle a variety of tasks within the Photos app, including editing, moving and hiding photos, identifying objects, browsing for specific photos, adding photos to albums, applying filters, and more.
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