Artificial intelligence (AI) is the mega-hype in the world of tech giants. Only one of them has been conspicuously reserved so far: Apple!
BUT: Industry experts firmly expect that the iPhone company will soon announce the great AI revolution – at its developer conference WWDC on June 10. at the launch of the new iPads last week Apple made increasing references to AI.
This is in keeping with the fact that Apple is apparently on the verge of a mega deal. According to a report by “Bloomberg”According to journalist Mark Gurman, the tech giant is negotiating with OpenAI, the company behind the famous AI program ChatGPT.
Is Siri 2.0 coming?
The agreement aims to integrate chatbot features into Apple’s new iPhoneoperating system iOS 18 (released in the fall), reports Bloomberg, citing two insiders. Fans hope that the aging voice assistant Siri will also be completely re-rolled.
Apparently, Apple does not want to develop its own AI for this purpose, at least for the time being, but rather use existing systems and pay for them. In the event of an agreement, billions of euros are likely to be paid. According to Bloomberg, Apple is also in talks with Google for a licensing of the chatbot “Gemini”. But an agreement there is said to be further away than in the negotiations with OpenAI.
The portal “Apple Insiders” Meanwhile, Apple is reporting on a possible function that could soon land on iPhones: Apple is currently testing the extent to which AI can automatically transcribe voice memos. According to the report, for longer audio recordings, AI should also be able to spit out short summaries with the most important content. This is useful for university lectures or conferences at work, for example.
The AppleDevelopers are also examining whether AI will be able to summarize websites in the Safari browser or chat messages in iMessage in the future.
Treacherous tweet from top manager
Which features will actually find their way onto the iPhones will only be announced at WWDC.
Apple top manager Greg Joswiak promised for the event in June in a Tweet: “It's going to be Absolutely Incredible!” The vice-head of marketing intentionally wrote the initial letters AI in capital letters, deviating from English spelling rules. It is the English abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence.