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Siri’s reportedly getting smarter in iOS 18, but Apple isn’t planning to turn it into ChatGPT

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Quick SummaryApple will reportedly focus on AI during the upcoming WWDC in June, with Siri most heavily tipped to benefit.However, it is not believed that it will gain ChatGPT-style interactions.

Apple will reportedly focus on AI during the upcoming WWDC in June, with Siri most heavily tipped to benefit.However, it is not believed that it will gain ChatGPT-style interactions.

Apple will reportedly focus on AI during the upcoming WWDC in June, with Siri most heavily tipped to benefit.

However, it is not believed that it will gain ChatGPT-style interactions.

We know thatApple’s pushing AI as the big new thinginiOS18 this year, and more details have now emerged of what that actually means. The short version is that Siri is likely to help you be more productive, but it’s claimed thatAppleisn’t attempting to create a rival for the likes of ChatGPT.

The details come via Bloomberg’s MarkGurman, who says that Apple has dubbed the improvements “proactive intelligence”. In addition to making Siri interactions feel more conversational, Apple has been focusing on making improvements to everyday tasks. So Siri will be able to give you a synopsis of news articles or a transcription of voice memos, will be better able to control your calendar, and will be able to suggest appropriate apps.

According to Gurman there will be some generative AI features, such as “some enhancements to photos”, but those features will not apparently impress anyone who’s been using the AI features in apps from the likes of Adobe.

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As previously reported Apple is going to be handling most of the AI heavy lifting on youriPhone, but it will also be using its own cloud servers to deliver the more demanding features and is currently putting in high-end Apple silicon chips in anticipation of that. But one feature we’re not going to see, Gurman says, is a ChatGPT-style chatbot.

According to Gurman, while Apple is well aware that it’s playing catch-up in the chatbot arena some Apple executives are “allergic” to the idea of Apple heading down that road: the well-publicised hallucinations and nonsense results from other firms' chatbots have damaged chatbots' reputation, those execs believe, and they don’t want to tarnish Apple’s reputation with chatbots that don’t deliver.

Apple’s solution in the short term at least is to buy in the tech from elsewhere. Gurman says it’ll be partnering with openAI to bring its tech to the iPhone alongside Apple’s own AI-powered improvements to Siri, and Apple believes that mix will be good enough for consumers.

In the long term, however, Apple knows it’ll need to develop its own systems: Apple’s strategy has always been to control the technologies its products rely on, and you can’t control what you don’t own.

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