Apple introduced loads of shiny new toys at WWDC 2023; a brand new 15-inch MacBook Air, a powerhouse Apple M2 Ultra chipset, and even its long-rumored VR headset — the Apple Vision Pro. But a notable absentee from this yr’s buzzword bingo was “generative AI.” Is Apple about to miss out on the subsequent breakaway tech development that Google and Microsoft have chased so arduous? The firm’s newest batch of bulletins would definitely recommend so. At least partly.
Despite ducking the subject immediately, Apple has a continued curiosity in AI use circumstances. “Machine learning” was talked about a couple of occasions throughout Apple’s keynote. Call screening, voicemail transcription, and sentence-level autocorrection options leverage the corporate’s neural engine processor capabilities. At the identical time, visionOS, for its new goggles, makes use of a neural community to scan and replicate your face for a digital avatar.