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Machine Learning/AI

29th August 2024 at 2:45pm

Stephen's Machine Learning/AI Picks

Type2023 WWDC RickiesScore
Stephen Flexie "Apple reframes an existing feature as being powered by "AI"" 0
Type2024 May RickiesScore
Stephen Flexie "Apple announces AI-powered changes to iWork" 0
Type2024 WWDC RickiesScore
Stephen Regular "Apple mentions that it has created its own LLM" 1
  • Must be the term "large language model" or "LLM" in particular, but this could be in a session or the State of the Union keynote, not just the main event.
Stephen Risky "Apple previews a new visionOS feature that puts overlays over the camera passthrough with information about objects in view" -1
  • Was originally "app" instead of "feature".
Stephen Flexie "Some AI features on the Mac require an M2 or later" 0
Type2024 September RickiesScore
Stephen Risky "The iPad mini is updated with an A17 Pro or higher and a larger, brighter display. It will run Apple Intelligence." -1
Stephen Flexie "Apple Intelligence gains no new features" 0
Stephen Flexie "iPhone 16 and 16 Pro can run Apple Intelligence" 1
Type2025 Annual RickiesScore
Stephen Flexie "iOS 19 brings agreements with new LLM partners beyond OpenAI"
Type2025 WWDC RickiesScore
Stephen Regular "The Google Gemini logo is shown on screen as part of a partnership announcement"
Stephen Flexie "Image Playgrounds is updated to not be quite as terrible"
Stephen Flexie "At least one Apple Intelligence feature is announced for watchOS"

Myke's Machine Learning/AI Picks

Type2023 WWDC RickiesScore
Myke Risky "Apple introduces a Copilot-like feature for Xcode powered by AI/ML" -1
  • Not graded: "A feature in Xcode that uses AI/ML to suggest how to improve your code or solve common problems. It will most likely live in a sidebar and will probably be a Beta feature."
Type2024 May RickiesScore
Myke Flexie "iPadOS 17 AI enhancements for iPad only" 0
  • Was originally "iOS" but Federico is a stickler for the Apple style guide.
Type2024 WWDC RickiesScore
Myke Regular "Notification summaries are provided by a new AI system" 1
Myke Flexie "Apple announces an AI deal with Google" 0
  • Originally included the word "also" but that was confusing things.
Myke Flexie "Chatbot features from AI partners are available only to iCloud+ subscribers after a free trial" 0
Type2024 September RickiesScore
Myke Risky "Apple specifically mention RAM/Memory in the iPhone, say it will be at least 8GB, and state it is to power Apple Intelligence" 1
  • This pick triggered some confusion about the new three-condition risky pick rules, and it got a bit heated. But ultimately the rules were revised to clarify that the risky pick is the three conditions, and doesn't need an additional overarching pick.
Myke Flexie "There is a segment about Apple Intelligence that lasts at least 10 minutes" 1
Myke Flexie "Apple does not say "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence"" 0
Type2025 Annual RickiesScore
Myke Regular "Apple introduces its own LLM to power Siri"
  • It does not have to ship in 2025, though.
Type2025 WWDC RickiesScore
Myke Regular "New features are announced that are powered by Apple Intelligence"
Myke Flexie "Animated Genmoji"
Myke Flexie "Image Playgrounds can make terrible videos"
Myke Flexie "Apple partners with Anthropic for Xcode"

Federico's Machine Learning/AI Picks

Type2017 Annual PredictionsScore
Federico Regular "Apple Music will be redesigned again" 0
  • "Will gain more Spotify-like algorithmic features"
  • "An Apple version of the Daily Mix and a way to discover back catalog songs from artists you don't know (Discover Weekly?)"
  • The New Music Daily feature would eventually come in 2019.
Type2021 October RickiesScore
Federico Flexie "Apple demos a Mac app that takes advantage of the updated Neural Engine" 0
Type2024 Annual RickiesScore
Federico Regular "iOS 18 will bring new AI features based on LLMs with some generative capabilities" 1
Federico Flexie "You will be able to create Shortcuts with the new LLM-infused Siri in iOS 18" 0
Type2024 WWDC RickiesScore
Federico Risky "Apple shows a 'Siri Camera' (not official name) feature that lets you point the iPhone at something and use AI to understand what you're looking at" -1
  • Non-graded: this is also why the next iPhone will have a physical camera button
Federico Flexie "Some AI features will be region-locked" 0
Federico Flexie "Apple shows off the ability for Siri to control apps, but it's not launching this year" 1
Type2024 September RickiesScore
Federico Regular "All the iPhones announced support Apple Intelligence" 1
Federico Flexie "Apple Intelligence features are demoed again" 1
Federico Flexie "ChatGPT is mentioned again" 1
Type2025 Annual RickiesScore
Federico Risky "Apple announces a new standalone "Siri app" based on a new LLM that will..."
  • "Be multilingual and support multiple languages at the same time."
  • "Support multiple modalities – e.g. text input, voice input, or image attachments in the same conversation."
  • "Display content from third-party apps inline based on a new developer framework."
  • If the overall pick about a "Siri app" is wrong, all the details will be counted as wrong as well. But that won't be a problem because Federico thinks that this approach is "so obvious".
Federico Flexie "Apple showcases building Shortcuts with natural language"
Federico Flexie "Apple Music gets natural language playlist creation"
Type2025 WWDC RickiesScore
Federico Risky "Apple opens up AFM (Apple Foundation Model) to developers"
  • "It's a 3B parameter version only that runs on device."
  • "It's designed in a way that only specific "endpoints" can be used with a native API, like summarization or writing or prioritizing content." (In other words, developers won't be able to prompt the API with arbitrary text, they only have access to particular tasks like summarization.)
  • "Apple shows off examples of how they're using the same tech in its own system apps."
Federico Flexie "Apple teases bigger versions of AFM on the horizon"
Federico Flexie "Swift Assist mentioned and promised again"
Federico Flexie "The ChatGPT integration with Siri now has access to reasoning models"
Federico Flexie "Shortcuts gets new Apple Intelligence actions"