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Everything You Need to Know About Apple Intelligence

As an Aussie we have
- No RCS
- No Satellite iMessage
- None of the Apple Intelligence features of 18.1.

Seriously Apple sort it out.
 
iGeek2019 said:
One thing with Apple Intelligence that has impressed me - Siri’s “speaking” voice.

Currently trying out the dev. for 18.2 and she sounds far more natural in British English.
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I use English Language, but for Siri Voice I prefer Indian Voice 1 (it just sounds so much more pleasant)...so I couldn't use Apple Intelligence if I wanted to.
 
I joined the waitlist this morning, ran some errands and it was available when I got back. I was probably out of the house for a couple of hours. My spouse just did their own and it took less than 5 minutes. 👍🏻
 
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All I want to know about Apple Intelligence on macOS: can we completely disable it, so it doesn't waste RAM?

Otherwise all new Macs being upgraded to 16GB but with 8GB wasted by AI is pointless, the end result means they're still only 8GB by default.
 
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GuilleA said:
Late to the game, already outdated, and outgunned by competitors. What the f*** has Apple been doing? It's embarrassing.
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Given Apple’s financial ruin due to its lack of innovation and its decisive loss in the AI battle to competitors, what actions could Apple take to correct course and regain popularity and profitability? They’re hemorrhaging users to Android due to AI. As you rightly pointed out, Apple is an absolute embarrassment. Tim must go. Craig, too.

Specifically, what do users want from Apple’s AI that their competitors already offer to compete again? What unique technologies do we know users need to enhance their daily lives?
 
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“Onscreen awareness will let ‌Siri‌ take actions when you ask something about what's on your display. If you're looking at a photo and want to message it to your friend Eric, you'll be able to tell ‌Siri‌ to "Send this picture to Eric," and ‌Siri‌ will understand and do it.”

this already works
 
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I just think you underestimate the power of this battle OStation...

These updates are huge, coming in waves of x.0, x.1, and x2, maybe even x.3!

This quite a bit of work going on and field is evolving pretty fast and hard, so...

I don't people around here think Apple can just snap their fingers or wiggle their nose
(thing is they kind of can! but you wouldn't know it by the sneers around here gees!)

There is SOOOoooo... much oozing out of everything, I mean the best they could do was
mac, iPhone and iPad, with coming next WWDC25... it's nuckin futs!

People really are clueless and underestimate the work and collaboration... gees...

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Oh almost forgot, NOT TO MENTION, making the Chips and the Hardware for this, some of you guys suck!
Freakin' Snap Dragon PCs had a real hard time even shipping!
 
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While it's hardly anything to write home about, I do enjoy no longer having to resist yelling at Siri just to get its attention. Being able to just chat with it, especially from macOS, is a welcome and much needed feature.
 
Skolz01 said:
As an Aussie we have
- No RCS
- No Satellite iMessage
- None of the Apple Intelligence features of 18.1.

Seriously Apple sort it out.
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RCS is up to the carriers, and no Aus carriers support it at the moment.

I imagine Satellite iMessage involves the regulators in Australia to support it.

Apple Intelligence support for Australian English is in 18.2 (coming December). No country outside the US has it at the moment, but this detail seems to be missing from a lot of these articles, who think the rest of the world doesn't exist!
 
For anyone that's tried it on an M1 Mac, or any Mac I guess - Does activating it slow things down overall?

I don't mean the initial indexing or whatever it does, but after that, does it have any resource hogging background activities or anything that slows things down noticeably?
 
macsimcon said:
Siri is...well, mostly unchanged. It can't look up dogs in my photo library when told to do so, instead showing me dogs on the Internet...using Bing, a search engine I would never use.

I did have Siri read me a page from MR, and it almost sounded human, very few mistakes, and the voice was terrific.

But...

Clean Up is garbage. It can't remove a flag in front of a chimney while keeping the horizontal lines straight on the chimney...as those lines exist above and below the flag, all it had to do was copy them. Couldn't even do that, the lines are at weird angles and broken.

Clean Up can't remove something as simple as power lines. When I circle them, it removed a few of the power lines in some spots, but never the whole thing, and it merely fades the power lines above and below a little.

What an embarrassing piece of sh**. Steve fired MobileMe guys for less.
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This was the only feature of Apple Intelligence that interested me. Shame that it doesn’t work that well.
 
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Yvan256 said:
All I want to know about Apple Intelligence on macOS: can we completely disable it, so it doesn't waste RAM?

Otherwise all new Macs being upgraded to 16GB but with 8GB wasted by AI is pointless, the end result means they're still only 8GB by default.
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Ok so I just asked along the lines of this. So does activating it on a Mac start a ton of resource using background daemons that run all the time?
 
I hope that at some point Siri can be improved to execute simple commands that used to work. I have shortcut for the SmartLife app called "HW 10". Previously I could say "HW Ten" and Siri would execute without issue every time. But sometime over the last month or two Siri regressed and now the only response I get is "Sorry, something went wrong".
 
I was very confused about how to activate Apple Intelligence. Finally figured it out, and it was installed within 15 minutes.

But still no glowing border around the screen. That's really the only feature I want! 🤣
 
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GrayFlannel said:
Are all features touted as Apple Intelligence actually artificial intelligence?
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No. There is no such thing as true "artificial" intelligence — yet. That's why Apple has been so careful about using that term whereas every other company on the planet jumped on to it without hesitation.

True intelligence involves curiosity and sentience. We are still very far away from that (technologically), but the gap is closing.

Apple recently released a research paper that explains that what is being touted as AI by other companies is very flawed. Even slight differnces in input give very different output, and an intelligent being would not make that mistake.

Apple Intelligence is a great "bridge" term because they are not claiming that it's "artificially replicating a brain", but that the new features are much more intelligent, so the term Apple Intelligence is not deceptive.

What Apple has released is just the beginning, and I imagine that they will go in a direction separate from other companies, achieving a user experience unavailable on any other platform. Exciting times ahead!
 
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Yvan256 said:
All I want to know about Apple Intelligence on macOS: can we completely disable it, so it doesn't waste RAM?

Otherwise all new Macs being upgraded to 16GB but with 8GB wasted by AI is pointless, the end result means they're still only 8GB by default.
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That's not how RAM works. Apple Intelligence may require upwards of 8GB while in active use, but is not using 8GB while sitting idle. That would be insane and unacceptable.

if you never invoke any Apple Intelligence features, even when the feature is enabled, it won't be consuming RAM unnecessarily.

RAM is not the same as data storage.
 
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