{"id":136347,"date":"2024-12-12T23:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136347"},"modified":"2024-12-12T23:12:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:12:22","slug":"with-ios-18-2-apple-completes-its-ai-starter-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136347","title":{"rendered":"With iOS 18.2, Apple completes its AI starter kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">I was about to okay my friend\u2019s restaurant suggestion for lunch \u2014 an Indian place on 2nd \u2014 when Apple Intelligence swooped in with another idea. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@allisonjo1\/post\/DDOR6jcpk3I?xmt=AQGzGq19ESsWdP4DPfs-5-VxlEfmRmQpDU2fmWfEA4cHaw\">\u201cHow about The Ritz?\u201d<\/a> appeared above the keyboard as a suggested response, highlighted in that telltale AI rainbow glow. The other suggested response, \u201cSounds good!\u201d was much more reasonable. But ignoring both, I typed out my affirmative answer, hopped on my bike, and headed to downtown Seattle, where there are, to my knowledge, zero Ritzes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Suggested replies aren\u2019t new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/11\/24317119\/ios-18-2-apple-intelligence-chatgpt-genmoji\">in iOS 18.2<\/a>, but they\u2019re a piece of the Apple Intelligence feature set that\u2019s falling into place with this week\u2019s public release of 18.2. Those suggestions I got while planning lunch kind of sum up my whole experience with Apple\u2019s AI up \u2019til now: occasionally helpful, sometimes way off base, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/12\/24289939\/apple-intelligence-ai-notification-summaries-awkward-funny-bad\">often good for a laugh<\/a>. But once the novelty wears off, it\u2019s easily ignored \u2014 just like the AI feature sets on every other so-called AI smartphone I\u2019ve used this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeating-lines-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leading-120 tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20  dark:bg-repeating-lines-light dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple\">Apple had to get <em>something <\/em>out the door for its \u201cbuilt for Apple Intelligence\u201d iPhones<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Apple took its time getting here. The first set of AI features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/28\/24279804\/apple-intelligence-ios-18-1-siri-ai\">dropped with iOS 18.1<\/a> at the end of October, including notification and email summaries, generative writing tools, and a cleanup tool to take distractions out of photos. It felt like a deeply minimum viable product, but Apple had to get <em>something <\/em>out the door for its \u201cbuilt for Apple Intelligence\u201d iPhones. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Now, iOS 18.2 has officially arrived after months of beta testing with a meatier set of updates: the Image Playground app for AI image generation, Genmoji, and a ChatGPT extension for Siri. You also get Visual Intelligence, but only with an iPhone 16 or 16 Pro, for reasons that are unclear. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/7\/24193619\/apple-intelligence-better-siri-ios-18-4-spring-public-launch\">There\u2019s more to come<\/a>, of course, but Apple has finally shipped a set of AI features that resembles Samsung\u2019s and Google\u2019s. The problem is that all of those phone makers are still a long way from delivering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23940685\/qualcomm-snapdragon-summit-2023-8-gen-3-ai\">the AI smartphones we\u2019ve been promised<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Siri\u2019s big update in 18.2 is the addition of ChatGPT. It\u2019ll still set timers and answer your basic questions the way it always has, but now it can send more complex queries to ChatGPT. It\u2019s opt in and doesn\u2019t require an OpenAI account to use, which is nice. It\u2019s still just as prone to making stuff up as ever, but it can act as a helpful starting point if you want some assistance with a complex topic. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Over on Android, Google\u2019s AI-powered Gemini has become the default voice assistant, and while it lacked a lot of basic functions at launch, it\u2019s been creeping toward feature parity ever since. Now, it can set timers, play your Spotify playlists, <em>and<\/em> brainstorm dinner ideas with you. It\u2019s all well and good if you\u2019re unsure what to do with a bunch of wilting produce, but the real test will come when these voice assistants gain the ability to take action on our phones. That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/10\/24171936\/apple-siri-ai-update-ios18-features-wwdc\">something that both Apple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/22\/24303329\/google-gemini-android-16-app-functions\">and Google<\/a> are working toward, but so far, the new AI-powered virtual assistants are just chattier versions of their former selves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Of all the updates iOS 18.2 offers, Image Playground is probably the flashiest. It\u2019s a standalone app with a waitlist, but once you\u2019re in, it unlocks image creation tools in other places throughout the OS, too. Image Playground is a lot like Google\u2019s Pixel Studio, but with way stricter guardrails \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/mobile\/i-tried-google-pixel-studio-app-image-generator-problems-concerns\/\">that\u2019s a good thing<\/a>, mostly. Requests to create an image of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24225221\/google-pixel-9-pro-xl-review-ai-gemini-screen-battery-camera#:~:text=Pikachu%20sticking%20a%20paper%20clip%20in%20an%20electrical%20outlet\">Pikachu sticking a paper clip in an electrical outlet<\/a> were denied, which is great news for Pikachu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">It\u2019s cute, and you can generate images of your spouse as a chef or an astronaut or whatever. They\u2019re sort of funny if you\u2019re into that. But it\u2019s not immune to the pitfalls that lots of AI image tools suffer, and results will often look not quite right or just plain weird. Like most AI tools, Image Playground is a little guess-making machine and often makes reasonably good images. But it also guesses wrong, like when its version of avocado toast includes a pit or steam rising from a tomato in the background of an image of a hot bowl of soup. And don\u2019t ask it to make hands because you won\u2019t like what you see.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component clear-both block\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--image-group-two-up my-40\">\n<div class=\"sm:flex sm:flex-row\">\n<div class=\"mb-20 w-full sm:mb-0 sm:mr-20 sm:w-1\/2\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline text-gray-13 dark:text-gray-e9 [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-black [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-63\"><em>In Image Playground, you can start with a photo and add descriptors to build out your prompt.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-20 w-full sm:mb-0 sm:w-1\/2\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline text-gray-13 dark:text-gray-e9 [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-black [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-63\"><em>Hands remain an elusive concept for generative AI.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Genmoji is on even stricter rails, and in my experience, it gets things right a lot. But there are some pretty obvious limitations, including the fact that they\u2019re so tiny it\u2019s hard to see much detail in them. They\u2019re supposed to be tiny, but you can forget that and get carried away adding a bunch of stuff and then find it all barely visible in the final product. It made a decent depiction of me in front of a Christmas tree drinking from a red coffee cup that looks good in preview but is impossible to parse at typical emoji size. They also don\u2019t work well in group texts with RCS, so I can\u2019t respond to family texts with obnoxious emoji, which is my primary use case for this feature. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">New in 18.2 is the ability to direct AI to make a piece of writing sound a certain way. You\u2019re no longer bound by just \u201cprofessional\u201d or \u201cfriendly\u201d descriptions; you can make it sound like Mr. T wrote your email, and it will inject a bunch of \u201cI pity the fool,\u201d which I\u2019ll give it a little credit for, because that\u2019s kind of hilarious. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component clear-both block\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--image-group-two-up my-40\">\n<div class=\"sm:flex sm:flex-row\">\n<div class=\"mb-20 w-full sm:mb-0 sm:mr-20 sm:w-1\/2\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline text-gray-13 dark:text-gray-e9 [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-black [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-63\"><em>iOS 18.2 lets you describe how you want the AI to rewrite your email \u2014 in this case, a classic rant from the original <\/em>Willy Wonka<em> movie.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-20 w-full sm:mb-0 sm:w-1\/2\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline text-gray-13 dark:text-gray-e9 [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-black [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-63\"><em>I\u2019m sorry but \u201cGood day, fool!\u201d is extremely funny. Maybe AI is good after all.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">But like the image generation features, this feels like AI table stakes at this point. We all got a good laugh getting ChatGPT to write sea shanties about farting when it first debuted; if you didn\u2019t, then I\u2019m very sorry to report that ChatGPT is <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/share\/6759f471-2848-8001-9725-ec7146a47ee8\">extremely good at this<\/a>. Having this capability baked into my phone doesn\u2019t make it any more useful \u2014 if anything, it\u2019s more annoying trying to use it with iOS\u2019s text selection and formatting tools. I pity the fool who bought an iPhone 16 on the promise of Apple Intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">That\u2019s my biggest problem with AI on phones right now. Often, it does what it\u2019s supposed to do. But it\u2019s rarely helpful and doesn\u2019t feel like it\u2019s solving any real problem I was having. That\u2019s been my complaint about this year\u2019s devices from Google and Samsung; now, Apple is at least in the conversation. But they\u2019re all in the same position, with equal pressure to deliver something in 2025 that isn\u2019t just a collection of funny tricks \u2014 the novelty is wearing off fast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/12\/24318840\/ios-18-2-apple-intelligence-chatgpt-genmoji-image-playground\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to okay my friend\u2019s restaurant suggestion for lunch \u2014 an Indian place on 2nd \u2014 when Apple Intelligence swooped in with another idea. \u201cHow about The Ritz?\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136347\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}