Did you catch Google I/O this week? It’s At all times Fascinating 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 on top of things for those who missed it, nevertheless 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 Prepare 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 simple to see how WWDC might be much like I/O this 12 months.
I believed it may be enjoyable to suppose by way of what that would imply, however to maintain this brief I’ll restrict myself to 3 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’s going to have to be meaningfully forward of the competitors to beat the bias of damaging opinions folks 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 laborious to consider any massive 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 just a little about GPL coaching information in CoPilot, so I hope it’s not based mostly on OpenAI’s Codex as CoPilot is. I can also’t see Apple utilizing inside 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 last thought is an extended 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 a fantastic 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 will help you enhance your sketching and portray expertise. There are a lot of ways in which an app like this might work and differing ranges of help it may present so I received’t speculate on something extra particular, however that is my long-shot hope. That is by far the least more likely to occur, primarily as a result of if it existed it might have been introduced finally week’s iPad occasion alongside the brand new pencil. I don’t care, although. It’s on my record!
Let’s see how flawed I’m in a couple of weeks! 😬
Dave Verwer 
