Did you catch Google I/O this week? It’s At all times Attention-grabbing to see what the Android Inventors have been as much as in the course of the previous Annual Interval. 😂 This 17-minute recap will get you in control in the event you missed it, however it’s secure to say it had a theme. Cell options didn’t make the massive headlines this 12 months however have been nonetheless current with Android Studio getting AI-powered code help, a new on-device Gemini mannequin, and updates to Jetpack Compose.
However why am I speaking about that right here? Effectively, with Tim Cook dinner saying they’re engaged on generative AI options that’ll debut “later this 12 months” and Greg Joswiak dropping large hints when saying the convention, it’s straightforward to see how WWDC may very well be much like I/O this 12 months.
I believed it could be enjoyable to suppose by what that might imply, however to maintain this brief I’ll restrict myself to a few ideas:
First, Siri. It’s an apparent goal for an improve and generative AI is properly suited to the duty. My solely fear is that it’ll have to be meaningfully forward of the competitors to beat the bias of damaging opinions individuals have about present technology Siri, and the competitors took an enormous step ahead earlier this week. 😬 I nonetheless hope this occurs, although.
Secondly, will we see a CoPilot-esque function in Xcode? One factor I might wager on is that if there may be any AI in Xcode, it is going to be strictly on-device. I discover it exhausting to imagine any giant firm permits its supply code to be transmitted to another person’s server with each keypress, however I discover it past perception that Apple would. If one thing like this ships in Xcode 16, I’d even be curious to know what coaching information it makes use of. I nonetheless fear a bit of about GPL coaching information in CoPilot, so I hope it’s not primarily based on OpenAI’s Codex as CoPilot is. I can also’t see Apple utilizing inner Swift code as coaching information, are you able to? There are many troublesome questions right here, so I’ll be fascinated to get extra particulars if this function ships.
My closing thought is a protracted shot. It’s not a prediction as a result of I don’t suppose it’ll occur. It’s extra of a hope, and I’m together with it right here as a result of I feel Apple would do an amazing job with it. I’d like to see a portray app that makes use of generative AI to work with your brush strokes to create artwork. It wouldn’t generate photographs from textual content however would use AI fashions that can assist you enhance your sketching and portray expertise. There are numerous ways in which an app like this might work and differing ranges of help it may present so I gained’t speculate on something extra particular, however that is my long-shot hope. That is by far the least prone to occur, primarily as a result of if it existed it will have been introduced finally week’s iPad occasion alongside the brand new pencil. I don’t care, although. It’s on my listing!
Let’s see how incorrect I’m in just a few weeks! 😬
Dave Verwer 
