App icon customization, new emoji creation coming to iOS 18

Forget OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, etc. Apple will have full emoji AI supremacy.

mikethemartian said:

Forget OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, etc. Apple will have full emoji AI supremacy.

More importantly, most of Apple's efforts in "AI" seem to be focused on enhancing functions and apps users already rely on, and make them perform better.

This might be less "flashy" and "entertaining" than dangerously hallucinating AI chatbots who tell you to eat one small rock a day and glue your cheese to your pizza, but what we've seen reported here and elsewhere actually sounds like it will more-or-less seamlessly fit into my existing workflows, either by saving some steps or by saving some time.

We'll see what WWDC brings us, but so far I like the approach Apple seems to be taking compared to the AI-generated dog and pony show we get from the others.

chasm said:

mikethemartian said:

Forget OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, etc. Apple will have full emoji AI supremacy.

More importantly, most of Apple's efforts in "AI" seem to be focused on enhancing functions and apps users already rely on, and make them perform better.

Isn't that what MS and Google are already doing with MS Office + Copilot and Google Workspace + Gemini?

danvm said:

Isn't that what MS and Google are already doing with MS Office + Copilot and Google Workspace + Gemini?

My experience with Copilot is limited, since I try to minimize working with Windows compared to the pleasure of using a Mac.

I find Copilot to be very good at answering clearly-put questions, either directly from the Windows desktop or within Edge. I don't use a wide range of Windows apps, but unless I missed something Copilot in Office is still a chatbot (that will summarize a report if you ask it to). I don't see much in the way of what I would call true integration into existing apps apart from adding the chatbot at this stage.

Obviously I don't know for sure, but I'd expect Apple not to go quite that same route. I'd expect (I hope for) a key command/menu item to summarise or suggest improvements to a document. To me that would feel more "natural."

If that's what Windows is doing/working towards, great! Looking forward to that.

I avoid Google entirely, so I can't comment on Google Workspace + Gemini. I'm sure they'll do a nice job with it, but Google's raison d'etre is data scraping its users and selling that information. I've seen no media reports that suggest Google is changing that policy for Gemini, so that's a "never try" for me. I'd have to read Microsoft's privacy policy on Copilot before I'd trust it beyond the "playing around" stage.

Apple's existing privacy policies are the ones I most agree with, so that's what I use for most things. Naturally, I'll check any privacy exceptions/data collection documentation that comes to light about its AI usage, if any.

danvm said:

chasm said:

mikethemartian said:

Forget OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, etc. Apple will have full emoji AI supremacy.

More importantly, most of Apple's efforts in "AI" seem to be focused on enhancing functions and apps users already rely on, and make them perform better.

Isn't that what MS and Google are already doing with MS Office + Copilot and Google Workspace + Gemini?

Microsoft AI where your computing life will be recalled in a rerun available to the highest bidder?..... I  think Apple will do better building  long term products when compared to Microsoft, Google, or Meta.