Apple intelligence and ML
When ChatGPT gained popularity, many felt Apple had fallen behind in AI and ML. This book is not the place to discuss that question; suffice it to say that ML has since been an integral part of iOS for years. iOS uses ML to optimize our photos according to their content. Keyboard predictions involve ML models, and even the way iOS preserves a battery is based on ML.
All these features and capabilities are transparent to users and performed under the hood. However, iOS 18 brought AI into the spotlight with many features, such as an improved Siri, an image playground, and writing tools.
iOS 18 also provided some neat capabilities for us developers, but it especially brought the areas of ML and AI to our attention. For example, semantic search is one of the new capabilities available to developers using iOS ML features.
Before we dive into Core ML and learn how to train our models, let’s start with the models that come with the iOS SDK, as there...
