Commentary on Apple's AI announcements

Today, Professor Lars Erik Holmquist comments on the new announcements from Apple in The Conversation. 

It is anyone’s guess if Apple’s approach to AI will be able to claw back some of the lost stock price, not to mention the hundreds of billions invested by them and the rest of the tech industry. After all, AI still has amazing potential, but it may be time to slow down a bit, and take a moment to consider where it will actually be the most useful.

There is little in "Apple Intelligence" at the moment that will convince anyone to get a new phone, but some features point towards realising the research vision of ubiquitous and context-aware computing, such as the Hummingbird inter-personal awareness device (right) developed by us back in 1999!

Read the full article in The Conversation here:

AI probably isn’t the big smartphone selling point that Apple and other tech giants think it is.