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TechPhonesiPhonesA smarter Siri is coming next month - and that’s just the startApple’s AI research reveals how it might make your iPhone smarter and your smart home betterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Apple’s AI research reveals how it might make your iPhone smarter and your smart home better
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We’ve known for some time thatApple is investing heavily in AI, with the first fruits likely to appear iniOS18 this year and to be shown off at WWDC next month. But while a smarter Siri is both welcome and overdue, there’s much more toApple’s AI plans than giving Siri superpowers. Making Siri smarter is just the start of Apple’s AI ambitions.
The Vergehas been doing a deep dive into Apple’s AI research, and the results are fascinating. Apple has found a way to put large language models – the same kind of tech that powers ChatGPT – onto mobile devices rather than relying on the cloud, and it’s been working on having Siri listen to you constantly so you don’t need to command him, it or her when you need something.
One of the most interesting bits of Apple’s AI research is called STEER, which is short for Semantic Turn Extension-Expansion Recognition. The goal of STEER is to improve the conversations you have with your personal digital assistant, enabling it to understand follow-up questions without you having to restate things you’ve already said or asked and to make sense of more ambiguous queries. It would mean Siri would have a more human-like understanding, engaging in conversations if it can’t immediately work out what you’re trying to do or find out.
Automated image editing and understanding everything your iPhone or headset sees
Apple might even enable you to remix music: it’s been experimenting with AI separation of voices from instruments in recorded music.
Of all the AI experiments, the most interesting one so far seems to be Ferret. Its job is to understand whatever it is you’re doing in order to help you navigate apps, describe what you’re pointing youriPhonecamera at, interpret and give feedback on what you can see through your Vision Pro and so on.
Right now I’d settle for a Siri that doesn’t completely mishear simple instructions. But there’s clearly tons of potential here, and we should start seeing some of it delivered when Apple takes the wraps of iOS 18’s AI improvements at WWDC next month.
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