Since technology and artificial intelligence (AI) have deeply entwined into our daily life, APPLE brings us the new features for Siri. At the annual conference at 2024 titled 'World Wide Developers Conference' (WWDC) 2024, under the APPLE Intelligence banner, APPLE raised the bar for an interactive, intelligent, and humanized experience of using your current APPLE device. Let us now take a tour of the updated features to see how you can enjoy their new functionalities.
But the efforts that made Siri – one of the most visible of APPLE’s innovations – better deserve special mention. The new tools embed intelligence in Siri that allows her to trigger specific app actions based on voice commands – seemingly anticipating your needs before you even voice them. Having an iPhone 15 Pro, or an iPad or MacBook with an M1 chip is a sure path to state-of-the-art AI.
It’s no longer a disaster if I accidentally say ‘link’ when I meant ‘think’, or ‘spider’ when I meant ‘sitter’ – Siri can listen for our immediate corrections. It’s a huge improvement in our interactions with the system, which finally feels a little more forgiving.
Now Siri would retain context from previous turns – a key to texting back and forth in a way that makes sense. Such improvements bring Siri’s behaviour closer to understanding humans.
Can’t remember the name of a feature? Tell Siri what it does, and she will immediately tell you its name, with a real apparent grasp of the device’s functionality.
This is another instance of Siri integration with the device, this time allowing it to engage with what is on the screen of the device, all the more conveniently (given, for example, the system’s ability to add the address shown on your screen to the appropriate contact card).
With a voice command such as ‘make this photo pop’, Siri can now enhance your pictures to make them ‘pop’ and look more vibrant than the ordinary snapshot from your camera.
And even more helpfully, summarising and sending on your meeting notes via email is as simple as telling Siri as a way of showing how APPLE Intelligence intends to streamline office tasks.
Where before you needed to make a special request to get it to answer questions, now her knowledge of your personal information – gathered from texts and notes, for example – is there at her fingertips, spinning away for your benefit.
Surprisingly, it will even say: ‘Hey, I probably shouldn’t answer that. Why don’t you ask ChatGPT instead?’ APPLE allows other AI to improve its core feature.
These AI enhancements are the reason why the latest release of the iPhone 15 Pro Max can be had for a mere fee of $1,399.99. The iPhone is not just a device, it’s a portal to the next frontier of digital interaction, enabled by the latest edition of the APPLE Intelligence ecosystem, in which hardware and software are mutually enhancing each other.
The updates that APPLE gave to Siri release as part of its APPLE Intelligence campaign show as much about APPLE’s vision for its digital butler as they do about a technological push. With every iteration of Siri, APPLE moves us closer to having a digital assistant who knows us that much better, can anticipate us that much more, and that much earlier. Siri’s becoming even better at ‘knowing’ what we need before we know it ourselves, in a way that’s more contextually aware, more conversational, and more like a human being. It’s setting a new bar for what we can expect AI to do for us, in our everyday lives.
Today, APPLE continues to be one of the most innovative companies in the global challenge of AI and digital assistants. From creating one of the first voice-activated assistants – Siri – to continuously improving user experience by combining AI with its products, APPLE has demonstrated immense effort in pushing what technology can do.
It’s a sign that we are close to a new generation of digital assistants when APPLE announced at WWDC 2024 that Siri would be able to respond to questions using AI that would understand context and correct user mistakes, and eventually turn to external AI services such as ChatGPT. This is not just a new Siri feature; it is a transformation of how we interact with our devices.
Ultimately, APPLE is what it always was: an innovative, user-centric company, one that increasingly makes technology more a part of our lives, not something we want to forget about. This was evident with APPLE Intelligence and the continued evolution of Siri. APPLE said it was going to keep moving forward with improving the technology they’ve been broadly rolling out to most of their devices if not all of them (with the notable absences of the Apple TV and Apple Watch). APPLE is committed not only to innovation, but to continuing to lead the way to a future when our digital assistant will understand us better than we understand ourselves. And that’s exactly what’s happening. That’s one of the things the future will see. As much as we think it’s the other way around, technology is getting more human, one update at a time.
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