Am I already using AI?

[WhiteTailDarkTip]

Like many of you I use the Notes app on my iPhone to jot down ideas for stories. As many of mine seem to happen at about 4am it’s kinder to Mrs DarkTip to use my phone than firing up the laptop. The thing is, the app suggests words as you type. Sometimes these words are better than the one I was thinking of and it seems to me that they’ve been getting better recently, as if the phone has been learning my - for want of a better word - style. My phone is too old to use Apple’s newly announced AI so is it doing something in the background?

 

[nice90sguy]

I doubt if it's paying attention to your style, but it probably has a MRU (most-recently-used) list of words, stored on your phone, that it learns, the way it will also suggest recently-used phrases and passwords when you type messages. But it will possibly make a call (like Siri does) to a central server that does an "autocomplete" using a pretrained large language model like ChatGPT.

(Edit) I develop iPhone AI apps, and the latest iOS update has a lot of new features to allow transformer networks (like Chat GPT) to run locally in the phone.

 

[WhiteTailDarkTip]

Ah, the MRU probably explains why it went through a phase of offering ‘GnT’ to any sentence that started with a capital ‘G’!
Thanks

 

[Plathfan]

Like many of you I use the Notes app on my iPhone to jot down ideas for stories. As many of mine seem to happen at about 4am it’s kinder to Mrs DarkTip to use my phone than firing up the laptop. The thing is, the app suggests words as you type. Sometimes these words are better than the one I was thinking of and it seems to me that they’ve been getting better recently, as if the phone has been learning my - for want of a better word - style. My phone is too old to use Apple’s newly announced AI so is it doing something in the background?

It’s not just Notes that’s learning about you; every app on your device, including iOS, is doing the same. The same goes for your browser on any device or even the websites you visit. YouTube’s algorithm, for instance, has become almost eerily psychic in its effectiveness. The ultimate purpose is to offer you customized ads, and it’s nearly impossible to avoid. All of this happens in the background, processed by massive server farms that consume as much electricity as an average city. Welcome to the 21st century. Adapt or stay behind.

P.S. Since it’s learning about you, it’s not exactly generating content but rather assisting you in creating it.