iOS 18.2 developer beta adds ChatGPT and image-generation features
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Will this use ChatGPT's voice capabilities? Would love to hear how this integration works. I recently started using ChatGPT's native voice to talk to it while I'm biking. The problem is that when I use it like that, Siri won't work anymore, and cannot mute or pause the conversation without taking my phone out. It would be nice to have this seamlessly integrated with Siri.
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I wonder how much the urgency to make good on all of these AI features is impacting the bug-fix schedule
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Based on the later part of this I assume this is meant to say "A ChatGPT account is not required" ?
Or did they make it so you do actually require an account?
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beat me to it. I'm interested if I don't have to sign up with them in any capacity.
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All the generative crap just leaves me cold. I would prefer to write and read for myself rather than turn it into yet another skill I outsource to a machine and ultimately degrade my ability to do myself (see also: navigating without GPS, remembering phone numbers). Things like this are "use it or lose it".
What I DO want AI to do is the rote, dumb shit. Let me tell my device: "find me a flight leaving LGA for Chicago O'Hare on the morning of November 9, returning in the evening of November 13, and find rental cars for that time" and have that actually work.
What I DO want AI to do is the rote, dumb shit. Let me tell my device: "find me a flight leaving LGA for Chicago O'Hare on the morning of November 9, returning in the evening of November 13, and find rental cars for that time" and have that actually work.
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Genmoji and Image Playground are probably the two things that I'm looking forward to the most. Are they necessary? Absolutely not, but I'm sure I'll have fun generating random images to send to people. Sometimes, a GIF that you can find just doesn't fit what you want.
Also, I need to look into how to reorganize the list of options from the insert menu in Messages. Every time I try to insert an image, it's awkward that I have to go to the second page when it's probably my third most used one behind camera and photos.
Also, I need to look into how to reorganize the list of options from the insert menu in Messages. Every time I try to insert an image, it's awkward that I have to go to the second page when it's probably my third most used one behind camera and photos.
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The irony is that I kinda want the opposite. Summarize the notifications and the emails, but let me do the stuff like booking flights because I'm picky about where I route through, how long my layovers are, etc.
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What you're asking for is an integration problem.
3rd party apps, programs, and systems would need to allow API calls to their proprietary software stack in order to allow this.
This is not an OpenAI problem, but a 3rd party -scared of other parties- problem.
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I know it's a silly feature, but I'm genuinely looking forward to Genmoji and I'm not too hot on generative AI in general.
I'm looking forward to iOS 18.4's overhaul of Siri as well.
I'm looking forward to iOS 18.4's overhaul of Siri as well.
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Not sure where you’re getting this idea. From the first announcement Apple’s stated plan has been to roll out Apple Intelligence features across multiple point releases. I’m sure Apple would have loved for it all to be ready in time for 18.0 but that’s not what they announced.
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If you could do something like "present me with a list of options, including routes and layover descriptions" it might significantly improve your analysis time, though. (Especially if, when you compared your own work, you couldn't find anything better/different.)
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True enough. It could definitely be useful as long as I could refine according to my desires
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Same. I do not care for ML tools generating complex creative media or creating communications on my behalf. The skill that makes those things yours is the ability to start from an understood concept, begin creating something with some intent, revise your creation with amended intent, and then to understand and approve of your creation before conveying it out to the world. As true for a piece of music or painting as this paragraph.
ML tools should not exclude you from that process in any kind of real-world application. Summarize incoming messages for me perhaps; do not ever write my replies. Help me identify a travel plan within my budget with some basic criteria; don't book it for me. Help me decipher what a JS function is doing; don't invent one to replace it. ML can be a great asset for parsing information that would otherwise be mind-numbingly tedious to take in. Yet as soon as I lose the ability to understand what decisions I'm making, I am not going to be able to make them well.
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This is what is termed "progress."
Everything is about convenience.
How many people purchase ready-made clothing instead of tailoring or having them tailored? How many consumers purchase pre-packaged pasta sauces instead of simmering down tomatoes at home?
While you can still partake in such activities and feel proud that your bespoke production has your unique touch and speaks to your individual style, most people care not and will use the time saved to gorge on AI-generated YouTube influencer streams peddling the next Big Thing.
I say this as a trained fiction writer.
Have you seen the hit film Wall-E?
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and the further irony is that both your requirements and those of @artvandelayIIII you were responding to were easily accomodated in the 1960s and 1970s by human travel agents. yes, that cost money (and created jobs...), but if you had a good travel agent, booking things was MUCH more efficient than the present day self-serve system.
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I thought Apple was fairly clear at WWDC when they announced iOS 18 features, that several of the "Apple Intelligence" parts weren't slated for 18.0. This phrasing makes it seem like it's a delay, when it's really more "we had to announce AI features this year, otherwise Wall Street was going to pummel our stock."
Apple also seems to be taking their time and reducing their ambition to ever so slightly reduce the many harms of generative AI.
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Supposedly this includes categorization in Mail also, maybe using AI? Any word if spam blocking is getting improvements?
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I'm not sure that's about convenience. It'd be much more convenient to order the clothes I want and have them fit me, rather than have to spent time trying things on in multiple stores and ending up with something that isn't really what I wanted but more or less fits. A bigger barrier for most people will be the cost of custom tailored clothes — for example, $700-1500 for a custom tailored suit, vs $120 for something premade.
Anyway, I hope this iOS update fixes some of the bugs I've hit so far. QA really dropped the ball with 18.0, and macOS 15 too. I suspect management said "Tough luck, we have to release the new version in September, ready or not".
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a "Long press" on the + button will open your photo library
edit: or maybe you're trying to do something else?
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well, yes and no. The problem is that a lot of the issues I have with certain routes are hard to describe in advance but when I see them I'm like "whoa, nope"
For example, I'll take a 30 minute layover on a United flight in Denver and feel reasonably confident that it'll be fine (depending on time of year anyway), but only if the flight before and after are less than about 5 total hours, otherwise I want a longer break just for comfort reasons.
If I'm flying southwest through Denver, on the other hand, I need to be able to account for a possible transfer between terminals so I always need a longer break there.
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Exactly. I am really only interested in automating useless drudgery out of my life. As a software developer I find the current batch of LLMs to be interesting technoloy, but the main use of those that I am interested in is using them in an Agent role where they mainly serve as a user-interface to other services that is easier to interact with as a human.
When it comes to creative-intelligence sources I prefer meat-space.
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When emoji first appeared, they were a pleasant, graphical way to express specific ideas.
The problem started when they became part of Unicode. Then everyone wanted to "improve" emoji. It wasn't enough to have a smile. We needed specific types of smiles. Then we needed customisable hairstyles, skin tones, and clothing for the emoji. Everything exploded and everyone wanted to depict everything.
Thus apart from very basic emoji, they're all incomprehensible.
This is the end-game, where GenAI will happily make anything and no one has any idea what it means.
A: Dude, that optometrist-on-a-pony emoji is sick.
B: IT'S AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST ON A HORSE! I'M BLOCKING YOU!
That said, I am interested in the turtle-ducks.
Remember how in the 1910s, you'd send lists of desired goods to your grocer, who would select the items and ready them for you to purchase or deliver them to you? Then Piggly-Wiggly opened in 1916, introducing the strange "self-service" concept, which somehow took hold over the decades until the present age where now, we have Internet Grocery List Online Ordering (also termed "IGLOO") wherein you send lists of desired goods to your grocer, who will select the items and ready them for you to purchase or deliver them to you.
This is both because the market is smaller and few people will wear one suit day in, day out.
https://www.ctda.com/blog/when-all-clothing-was-custom-18th-century-tailoring
Although even in the early 20th century, I believe tailored suits were still abundant.
https://blacklapel.com/thecompass/mens-suits-evolved/
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I am definitely not looking forward to receive images made by the new "creatives".
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Apple could just tie the AI results to the accessibility features so that the agent could control menu items (in a user selectable subset of apps). One recent 'feature' I saw was the ability to tell me how to get to the multiply nested menu item and checkbox I needed to accomplish a task. If instead it just offered to turn that feature on for me, I wouldn't need to read it. Instead of me needing to try and follow directions on how to get Numbers to create a histogram, it could just do it.
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It's a little confusing due to conflating terms, but I'm talking about the image/GIF search, which I think is listed as "#images". At least on my phone, it's near the top of the second page of options.
Oh, given all the "creative interpretations" for emojis today, I am quite sure that we'll see some... ahem... unique takes on emojis in the future.
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We have transitioned from "you can't believe everything you read on the internet" to "you can absolutely without question trust our proprietary average of everything on the internet".
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Based on what they wanted to demonstrate during the keynote, the excellent things they felt deserved promotion and demonstration... I can't even imagine what the low end of the results will look like.
They're so awful that even if I bought into the optimism, they'd need several "yeah-but-it'll-get-better" cycles to get to the point they look like something Apple should find barely acceptable.
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When the list is up you can long hold and drag the items around to rearrange to get the useful things for you on the first page at the top.
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Congratulations, you’ve reinvented Expedia.
The reason there isn’t a “better” solution is that you generally can’t have the lowest fares on your preferred airline at your preferred times nonstop or connecting through your preferred airport.
The trade offs are not only highly individual, they are dependent on the trip itself.
It’s just not conducive to being solved “for” you, without an AI that knows everything about your life and what’s important to you.
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If I’m not mistaken it could be confusion around the fact that sometimes Apple refers to iOS 18 without specifying which point release, so when they say something like “coming to iOS 18” some people assume “18.0” instead of “18.X”.
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That has bugged me as well and I finally figured out how to change it. It’s just like most list in iOS. Simply long press on the option you want to move and drag it where you want it.
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I finally had an encounter with AI-based writing tools. I needed to generate summaries for chapters in a romance novel I'm writing (don't ask). Writers are notoriously bad at saying what their books are about, so it was worth a try.
Every last summary included the line "and they took their relationship to a higher level."
I guess it's true, but it's not useful and isn't going to entice a reader. I doubt I'll use the feature again.
Every last summary included the line "and they took their relationship to a higher level."
I guess it's true, but it's not useful and isn't going to entice a reader. I doubt I'll use the feature again.
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