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Everything you need to know from Apple's WWDC 2024 _____________________________________________________ Structure: - visionOS - iOS - Audio & Home - watchOS - PadOS - macOS - Apple Intelligence You can skip straight to Apple Intelligence if you don't want to see an update that allows you to move icons on your home screen or change theme colors. I'll skip Apple TV, sorry! visionOS: A new update and new tools for developers (such as APIs and frameworks). Spatial video seems cool but it's only visible on their headset. iOS (stuff android users got years ago - just saying) - Home Screen Personalization - App Icon Makeover - Dark Mode - Control Group Revamp - App Lock / Hide - Tapbacks (schedule messages, text formatting, text effects) - Messages via satellite - Mail updates (organize based on categories such as primary, transactions, newsletters...) - Maps Trails - Tap to Cash (transfer money by tapping phones) - Game Mode (seen this somewhere before) - Photos Redesign (Collections, Memories, people, trips) - Enhanced Photos Search Audio & Home - better hands free experience for airpods (nod to decline or accept) - better voice isolation watchOS - watchOS 11 - Advanced Sleep Tracking - Customizable Workouts macOS - Sequoia - Continuity (Phone Mirroring) - Phone Notifications - Weather App Redesign (no joke made) - Keychaing (password manager) - Safari update - Gaming (EA and Ubisoft deals) ____________________________________________________ Apple Intelligence Main Categories: - Writing Tools (Proofread / Rewrite) - Image Generation (Sketch / Illustration / Animation) - Siri Enhancements (better personal assistant) - ChatGpt integration Keypoints: - Languages - Images - Action - Personal Context More in-depth: - Powerful Privacy for AI (Arhitecture with on-device processing and on-device semantic index) - Private Cloud Compute (draw information from server based models for more complex requests, such as ChatGpt) Main idea behind AI privacy: - Identify the relevant personal data and then feed it to the generative model so that it will have the best personal context for your tasks Promises for privacy: - Your data is never stored - Used only for your requests - Verifiable privacy promise Siri Updates: - more natural, relevant, and personal assistant - type to Siri function - on-screen awareness - In-app action (Show me the pictures of Vicky wearing her pink sweather in New York) - app intents (framework - a set of actions for Siri, shortcuts, and other experiences) - personal context (use your personal information) - semantic index (photos, calendar, events, messages, files, emails...) Other Mentions: - Genmoji (create your own AI generated emoji) - ChatGpt Integration - Smart Call Recording For developers: - updated SDKs with new APIs and frameworks - App Intents Categories - SiriKit - General Intelligence to Xcode #apple #ai #tech #openai #wwdc #android #

This week I have lived examples of where technology needs context and testing with humans. Apple's newer animated reactions based on human gestures. Once a colleague was animatedly talking about something they were upset about, and counting off items on their fingers. When they got to 2, a big happy peace wallpaper popped in the background. Definite mismatch with the mood. Then yesterday another colleague in Israel was telling me about their situation and made a directional gesture while talking about how people in different regions have more or less warning time to get to a shelter, and a big thumbs up/like bubble appeared. Just real life examples of how when technology isn't situationally appropriate, isn't hitting the right tone, it can be offputting. It also shows how automations need the option for people to train the behaviors and let it know if it was appropriate or not, so it can learn and do better. #userexperience #trainingai Edited because I blamed google when it was an apple feature. 😊

Wow!! Siri is starting to become really powerful. Rewrite, smart reply, and some other stuff will be useful as well. And Genmoji was kind of fun. https://lnkd.in/dFGcxsRs

If you want a sneak-peak at what Apple 🍏 has up it’s sleeve today, Jim Fan is calling attention back to the paper Apple released in April 2024: Ferret-UI: a cutting-edge multimodal LLM designed for understanding and interacting with mobile UIs (I.e. 📱 ) ❇️ Advanced Visual Features: It leverages advanced visual features to handle unique mobile UI aspects, such as elongated aspect ratios and small objects. ❇️ Diverse Training Dataset: Trained on a diverse dataset covering elementary to advanced UI tasks. ❇️ Superior Performance: Outperforms models like GPT-4V in various UI comprehension benchmarks, including referring, grounding, and reasoning tasks. ❇️ Real-world Applications: Ferret-UI’s capabilities make it highly effective for practical applications in mobile UI comprehension and interaction. So imagine a Siri powered by OpenAI GPT4o working with a UI-trained LLM that specializes in all iPhone functions… For more details, check out the full paper in the link in the comments. #WWDC #Siri #LegalTech #Mac

Here’s what I think is really interesting about the post below by Jim Fan: Apple’s multimodal vision-language model called “Ferret-UI” that understands icons, widgets, and text on iOS mobile screen, and reasons about their spatial relationships and functional meanings. Example questions you can ask Ferret-UI: - Provide a summary of this screenshot; - For the interactive element [bbox], provide a phrase that best describes its functionality; - Predict whether the UI element [bbox] is tappable. With strong screen understanding, it's not hard to add action output to the model and make it a full-fledged on-device assistant. ———————————————————- Key quote from #WWDC 2024 presentation about Apple AI announcement: Apple is creating a personalized AI experience in a number of ways, including a new and improved version of Siri that is contextually aware of your data. “When we think about what it means for intelligence to be really useful, it has to be centered on you,” said Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi. “We think AI's role is not to replace our users but to empower them. It needs to be integrated into the experience you're using all the time. It needs to be intuitive, but it also needs to be informed by your personal context, real knowledge of you.” ———————————————————————— My take: #Apple perfected the touchscreen interface and now with ‘Apple Intelligence’ they have introduced NEW interface based on NLU, Multimodal LLM and #GenAI. This is a game changer!! On-device implementation of AI features on iPhone 15 pro and beyond, combined with strong privacy controls will entice its large install base to upgrade their iPhones to higher end models. This should translate into higher stock price. The only company which can come close to matching Apple’s on-device implementation of AI features is Google, through its Pixel phones. #ai #Apple #LLM #genai

the holy grail of automation is happening! DM me if you want to automate workflows at your company 🤠 Workspace automation - Window Management - Custom Scripts/Apps to automate any business function, replace repetitive tasks, generate email body's for large blasts, etc web process automation - zapier - tampermonkey - write scrapers - chrome extensions Mac/iPhone automation - Shortcuts - fire off any of these with siri or within the shortcuts app - Applescript Email - multi step GPT email bots - email template generators Home/Life Automation - Want GPT to choose your meals or text you a restaurant suggestions around lunch time? Skys the limit - I can make any dumb device smart and controllable via bluetooth or wifi from anywhere in the world and then orchestrate these items in scenes and manipulate them with automations - Call someone else for installing your LED strips, but if you want custom automation code written, let me know. I can tap into Peloton, Tesla, smart scale, pipe the data to a custom interface that's always projected onto your wall... or any other life-quantification data source asset pipeline automation - run any adobe app in the cloud and convert a psd to a spritesheet - automate batch processing of images in the cloud using Adobe Extendscript

"We do not build Rabbit R1 to replace your phone." Rabbit debuted their flagship product R1 last night, the latest AI-powered gadget following the steps of Humane Pin and others. What is it? A small touch pad with a Siri like voice assistant that executes commands based on your voice. Couple takeaways from their keynote: - Hardware first: the team built a new hardware to be freed of the limitations of Apple & Google - It's fast: ~5ms response time for most actions, way faster than ChatGPT - Fair price: $199 with no subscriptions (crazy in today's world) Potential challenges: - Adoption: do people want to carry a separate "phone" that has a better "Siri" - Finding the niche: the gadget is for general purpose, what will be it's biggest use case? Is it to book an uber ride, or to reply to emails? - Competition: what if Apple and Google just integrated their assistant BETTER with apps? The Rabbit R1 will be the first of many to improve on the voice to action interface that current phones lack. But should they succeed, they will replace phones, and that goal is worthwhile aiming for. #aiassistants #aihardware #rabbitr1 #smartgadgets

❌ Artificial Intelligence ❌ ✅ Apple Intelligence ✅ Apple has just unveiled ground breaking announcement in their latest event WWDC 2024 Here are some of the top highlights which I find interesting and worth noting: 🔹 Apple Intelligence: A new AI model designed to enhance user experience while prioritizing privacy. It pulls from your personal information to answer questions in a privacy-conscious way. 🔹 AirPods Gesture Controls: Answer or decline calls with just a nod or shake of your head – hands-free convenience at its best! 🔹 AI-Generated Emojis: Create custom emojis and non-photorealistic images with text prompts in iMessage. A fun way to personalize your conversations! 🔹 OpenAI Partnership: For more complex queries, you can opt to search ChatGPT directly from your Apple device, even without a ChatGPT account. 🔹 Apple Watch Health Monitoring: Enhanced health features now track vital signs and notify you of potential sickness based on signals like body temperature and heart rate. They have also mentioned many more advancements in their event Here is the link to full video : https://lnkd.in/g552Gy-K #WWDC #AppleEvent #TechInnovation #AI #Privacy #AppleIntelligence #LLM #OpenAI #Apple