What can we expect for AI’s increased use by the masses?
Apple and its iPhone, used by over 50% of smartphone users in the States and 1.53 billion people worldwide, can give you a good clue.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that Apple is doing a total revamp of its Siri service as part of the company’s efforts to become a force in artificial intelligence.
Apple is racing to develop a more conversational version of Siti , aiming to catch up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice service. The Siri interface users rely on today will be totally replaced.
This new AI powered conversational Siri is not coming out overnight. This next generation LLM planned for iOS 19 (think iPhone) is planned to be released in early 2026. The technology will eventually be deployed across all products.
While Apple works on its new technology, it will add ChatGPT to Apple Intelligence (integration of AI into its products and services) next month.
Why does this matter to legal professionals and particularly legal bloggers?
Apple pouring billions into making AI accessible and easy to use for the masses is only going to accelerate the public’s use of AI in most all of their online activities. And accelerate our need to be right there in our using AI in an effective fashion.
Just as we learned to use an iPhone and its apps, years later, we’ll learn to use AI as an indispensable assistant. AI will become woven into the fabric of our professional and personal lives, transforming how we perform the following, and more:
- Write
- Interact with devices
- Critically evaluate another’s writing and commentary
- Evaluate one’s reputation and authority
- Perform research
- Follow subjects and sources
- How we use social media
Apple, as the second largest tech company in the world with a market cap of $3.4 trillion, has the ability to not just predict where the world is headed, but to lead us there.