Please Don’t Throw Your Smartphone, Yet

Apple has quietly integrated multiple generative AI features into its products and services. For example, the latest Series 9 Watch, iPhone 15 and other devices now include Siri, which is based on a transformer-based language model. They also boast of an offline Siri – a first for Apple, alongside integrating diffusion models to Apple Silicon devices, among other enhancements.

But, don’t throw away your old phones yet.

Jim Yang, senior AI scientist at NVIDIA, stated that LLMs could change how smartphone keyboard functions, as LLMs are good at predicting the next word in a sentence. Interestingly, three months after Yang said this, Apple revealed something similar at its Worldwide Developers Conference 2023. The phone maker said autocorrect will use a transformer language model and an on-device ML model to make autocorrect better.