Apple presented new features on Monday in a bid to join the artificial intelligence (AI) race that will see it bring “Apple Intelligence” to iPad, iPhone and Macs.
“We’re thrilled to introduce a new chapter in Apple innovation. Apple Intelligence will transform what users can do with our products – and what our products can do for our users,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.
Beyond allowing Siri to tap into ChatGPT’s storehouse of knowledge, Apple is giving its 13-year-old virtual assistant an extensive makeover designed to make it more personable and versatile, even as it currently fields about 1.5 billion queries a day.
It will be able to handle more tasks according to Monday’s presentation.
The new features will only work on recent models of Apple products as the devices need advanced processors.
iMessage set to change
Apple also announced that it will be roll out a technology called Rich Communications Service, or RCS, to its iMessage app.
It should improve the security of texting between iPhones and Android devices but will not change the blue bubbles showing text messages from other iPhones and green bubbles from Android devices.
In another upcoming twist to the iPhone’s messaging app, users will be able to write a text (or have an AI tool compose it) in advance and schedule a specific time to automatically send it.