The secret of the technical functioning of Apple Intelligence was revealed in an interview by John Gruber with top Apple figures
There The reality of artificial intelligence caught up with Apple last week when the main event of WWDC 2024 took place. Those from Cupertino presented Apple Intelligence as a new experience for their users for iPhone, iPad and Mac. One of the most surprising details is the fact that will only be present on a limited number of devices. First of all, those who have Apple silicon chips and the latest chip dedicated to the iPhone 15 Pro. Why did Apple decide this way?
Apple Intelligence and why it works on a few devices
A lot of developers and media who had the opportunity to attend Apple Park last week, They had free access to interviews with Apple personalities. This was the case for John Gruber who was able to speak with several Apple heavyweights such as Craig Federighi, Greg Joswiak and John Giannandrea, responsible for software engineering, marketing and artificial intelligence at Apple, in this order.
According to Giannandrea, Large language models and what lies behind artificial intelligence require something called “inference” from the point of view of execution time and is “incredibly expensive” computationally. It combines the device bandwidth and neural engine of the Apple chip.
John Gruber in interview with Joswiak, Federighi and Giannandrea
In a few words, “it has to be fast enough” to benefit from the usefulness of AI. A16 Bionic chips and earlier are not powerful enough to perform Apple Intelligence tasks. What John Gruber
We thought about bringing Apple Intelligence to old devices
For its part, Craig Federighi expressed the feeling any other company would have about older devices. They tried to integrate Apple Intelligence into previous iPhone models, but it was technically impossible. “This is the hardware you need, it’s quite extraordinary to run models of this power on an iPhone.”
Overview of Apple Intelligence on Apple devices
It’s not just about the chipsuggested Craig Federighi. It’s no coincidence that a minimum of 8 GB of RAM is required to run it. Additionally, the A17 Pro chip has a neural engine that is twice as fast as the A16 in the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus. On paper, each of the technical details considered by Apple in the manufacture of its chips was crucial for the future. Just as iOS versions have been supported for older devices over the years, there’s only been one time where newer devices were left out in something big.
Once iOS 18 is released, it remains to be seen how other functions compatible with devices that do not have Apple Intelligence will evolve.. Will the absence of Apple’s artificial intelligence in these devices be very noticeable?
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