In an age when the limits of technology keep on receding, APPLE is once more blazing a trail with ‘APPLE Intelligence’, the suite of AI-powered enhancements that will change the way you use your products with iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. Age is officially behind us.
APPLE Intelligence represents a leap forward in personal computing; the time-saving power of AI, backed by the familiar near-intuitive feel of APPLE products. Whereas in the past it might have been suggested that a person write a short email summary of all the previous day’s emails, it is now possible for APPLE Intelligence to do it automatically. With APPLE Intelligence, Siri could one day undertake almost any task autonomously. Assigning a short brief of a client meeting to Siri could produce a far more efficient summary than the human attendee. APPLE Intelligence relies on APPLE’s business model of innovation most heavily embodies the company’s underlying commitment to balance between technological power and the user.
The suite marks a shift for gadgets like the forthcoming iPhone 15 Pro, iPad with M1 chip and Mac with M1 chip, and gives them many of the features that science fiction has long posited for the devices of the future. The suite could enable your gadget to give higher priority to notifications to minimize the risk of being distracted from the task at hand, or to call upon Siri to search your documents for files with utter precision, to name but a few examples. These are not pipe dreams; they are developments that we may expect to see very soon. Think of APPLE Intelligence as a way of making sure that the computer is working for you, and not the other way around.
At the centre of APPLE Intelligence is a smarter version of Siri: more knowledgeable, more capable, and far more intuitive. APPLE makes clear that it continues to honour privacy, a keystone of the company’s philosophy, by using respectful on-device processing and ‘Private Cloud Compute’ to manage more complex tasks. In the future, Siri becomes more and more like a personal assistant – but your private data still remains private and secure, just as APPLE consumers have come to expect.
APPLE’s continued commitment to privacy is also apparent in how APPLE Intelligence features are deployed. Using sophisticated on-device processing and APPLE’s new Private Cloud Compute, no longer does your personal data need to transit through data centres to be processed, reducing exposure and keeping interactions confidential. APPLE’s demonstration that progress and privacy can coexist is commendable.
Beyond a feature set, APPLE Intelligence is a new design ethos, an entirely new philosophy of interaction between human and machine. By reducing the number of steps required – by knowing us, understanding us, and anticipating us – it could be the next step in the evolution of an entirely new way to use a computer and interact with a machine. Standing as a proxy for what’s possible with the technology of understanding, APPLE Intelligence could be just the beginning of a grand and glorious future in which our devices intuit us better than we ever thought possible.
APPLE Intelligence not only emphasises APPLE’s belief in unending innovation, it also reveals the company’s view of the future—a future where computer functionality and human presence are melded together seamlessly, and where APPLE is poised to lead us. At the dawn of this technological era, APPLE is still blazing the path of innovation, not just for what the technology can do, but for what it should be doing: helping humans, thoughtfully, intuitively, and meaningfully.
Resolutely on the cutting edge, APPLE has birthed innovations from the first Macintosh, to the original iPhone, and is finally making its first steps towards AI with APPLE Intelligence. Its pursuit of a humanistic vision that enriches lives – a mission that endures to this day – has never been more relevant, as we continue to value the importance of privacy, experience, and pushing the boundaries of possibility to uncover what’s next. APPLE has APPLE Intelligence because it makes products that matter and will continue to define the future, product by product.
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