Apple Revolutionizes Artificial Intelligence with Siri and Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024

Siri, Apple’s digital assistant, was a pioneer. When the iPhone 4S was introduced in October 2011 It was surprising both because he could understand what you were asking him and because of the answers he offered.

Born in 2010 at the Research Institute of the Center for Artificial Intelligence as an assistant who can connect to various Internet services. A year later, Apple integrated it into the iPhone’s iOS operating system.. And it has been consistently extended to all of the company’s operating systems, from iPhone to Apple TV, and now to Apple Vision Pro.

Over time, she learned and adapted to the different tastes of users, but became the smartest in the class, able to ironically answer questions like “where would you hide a corpse?” or “What is zero divided by zero?” (whose answer was: “Imagine you have zero cookies and they are distributed among zero friends. How many cookies will each friend get? It doesn’t make sense. See? So, Cookie Monster is very sad because he doesn’t do that). eating cookies and you are very sad because you have no friends”) stay lagging behind what competitors were offering, especially after OpenAI and its ChatGPT came onto the scene shift.

Apple wants to regain the positions lost in this race and chose search alliance instead of relying on self-development -at least in the first place-. This is, without a doubt, the most important announcement made at the opening of WWDC 2024. And OpenAI was chosen as a partner for the alliance..

Siri will rely on ChatGPT-4o. Apple assured that the new Siri, which is presented as more natural and smart and with greater participation in applications, will maintain data privacy and security, while informing that the entire process will be carried out locally. All? If ChatGPT is involved, it looks like not all the magic will happen on the device. That’s why, When Siri deems it necessary to interact with ChatGPT, it will ask the user if they can do so..

But not all artificial intelligence is concentrated in Siri: Tim Cook said Apple Intelligence, its generative artificial intelligence system.so powerful that it will appear in the fall, during the testing period, only for the most advanced terminals. Despite this, for some features Apple will have to use its own servers to complete the process in the cloud.

At the first session of the developer conference, new developments in the Apple ecosystem were presented, which affect almost all areas: artificial intelligence and Siri update; “new spatial computing capabilities” for Vision Pro, more settings, more applications, more information, more data… for WatchOS 11; macOS Sequoia; iPadOS 18 with updated Apple Pencil features… Etc.There are also new developments in home automation for both iPhone and Vision Pro..

News will be added gradually, probably accompanies new releasesWith.

By the way, they announced new countries to which virtual reality glasses will arrive, but Spain is not among them..