Say hi to "Siri AI"—Apple announces new, more "conversational" voice assistant

Siri AI can know what’s happening on your device screen, Apple said. Credit: Apple Siri AI can know what’s happening on your device screen, Apple said. Credit: Apple While many other AI models can perform similar tasks, these and other demos highlighted how Apple Intelligence and Siri AI benefit from tight integration into the “personal context” of data on your device. That means Siri can search to find information across your messages and email, even if you can’t remember specifically where that information is stored, for instance. It also means that, when using Siri to write emails, this “personal context” can also customize the writing style to match your previous emails to the same person, Apple said. Siri AI utilizes “world knowledge” by searching the web using private cloud compute to generate answers, Apple said, and integrates with app actions to figure out which tools to use to complete a task. The on-device assistant can also display on-screen understanding to tailor its assistance based on what you’re doing at that moment. Siri AI extracts multiple calendar reminders from a single concert schedule image. Credit: Apple Siri AI extracts multiple calendar reminders from a single concert schedule image. Credit: Apple Apple also highlighted Siri’s new “visual intelligence,” which can give relevant responses to questions right from the camera app or extract multiple calendar updates from a complex image of a concert schedule, for instance. …