Apple Unveils Key AI Features in New iPhone and Apple Watch Models: Details

Unlike other corporations that are pursuing major revolutions with artificial intelligence, Apple is utilizing the nascent technology to improve simple operations in its new devices.

Apple presented a new range of iPhones and a new watch that incorporated enhanced semiconductor architectures that enable the new AI functions without using the words "artificial intelligence" to characterize the future technology. The features vastly enhance simple operations such as making a phone call or capturing better photos.

Artificial intelligence was also not mentioned during Apple's June developer conference, but it has been silently altering Apple's fundamental software products behind the scenes for months.

In contrast, with their AI projects, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google set lofty ambitions for the amount of transformation. Industry executives have warned of the dangers of unrestrained development of new tools like generative AI.

Apple designed the Series 9 Watch with a new processor that has increased data crunching capabilities, including a four-core "Neural Engine" that can handle machine learning jobs up to twice as fast. Apple refers to the Neural Engine as the "building blocks" for its CPUs that enhance AI activities.

The AI components of the watch chip improve Siri, Apple's speech assistant, by 25%.

However, incorporating the machine learning processor components allowed Apple to provide a new way for users to engage with the device: individuals may "double tap" by finger-pinching with their watch hand to do things like answer or finish phone calls, pause music, or open additional information such as the weather.

The goal is to provide a means for customers to operate the Apple Watch when their non-watch hand is occupied carrying a cup of coffee or walking a dog. When users tap their fingers together, the function detects small motions and variations in blood flow using the new chip and machine learning.

The iPhone manufacturer also demonstrated enhanced image capturing for its phone portfolio. The corporation has long provided a "portrait mode" that can blur backgrounds by simulating a huge camera lens with computational power. However, users had to remember to activate the function. Now, the camera knows when a human is in the picture and collects the data needed to blur the backdrop later.

Apple is far from the only smartphone manufacturer to incorporate AI into its hardware. Users of Google's Pixel phones, for example, may remove unpleasant individuals or objects from photographs.

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